Elle Fanning
Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress. As a child, she made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001). She appeared in several other films as a child actress, including Daddy Day Care (2003), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008), and the miniseries The Lost Room (2006). She then had leading roles in Sofia Coppola's drama Somewhere (2010) and J. J. Abrams' science fiction film Super 8 (2011). Fanning played Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) while working in independent films such as Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa (2012), Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), and Coppola's The Beguiled (2017). From 2020 to 2023, she starred as Catherine the Great in the Hulu period satire series The Great, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She has since portrayed Michelle Carter in the Hulu limited series The Girl from Plainville (2022), made her Broadway debut in the play Appropriate (2023), and played a character based on Suze Rotolo in the biographical drama A Complete Unknown (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elle Fanning, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2026 · The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Effie Trinket
- 2025 · Predator: Badlands as Thia
- 2025 · Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp
- 2024 · A Complete Unknown as Sylvie Russo
- 2022 · The Girl from Plainville as Michelle Carter
- 2020 · The Great as Catherine II of Russia
- 2020 · All the Bright Places as Violet
- 2019 · Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Princess Aurora
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2017 · No Activity as Madison
- 2017 · The Beguiled as Alicia
- 2016 · 20th Century Women as Julie
- 2016 · Ballerina as Félicie Milliner (voice)
- 2016 · The Neon Demon as Jesse
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · The Boxtrolls as Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)
- 2014 · Maleficent as Princess Aurora
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2011 · We Bought a Zoo as Lily Miska
- 2011 · The Rosie Show as Self - Guest
- 2011 · Super 8 as Alice Dainard
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2009 · Astro Boy as Grace (voice)
- 2008 · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Daisy Age 7
- 2007 · Dirty Sexy Money as
- 2006 · The Lost Room as Anna Miller
- 2006 · Déjà Vu as Abbey
- 2006 · Babel as Debbie Jones
- 2005 · Criminal Minds as Tracy Belle
- 2005 · Robot Chicken as Sarah Williams / Logan's Friend #2 / Nerd's Wife (voice)
- 2004 · House as Stella Dalton
- 2004 · CSI: NY as Jenny Como
- 2003 · Daddy Day Care as Jamie
- 2002 · Taken as Allie at 3 yrs
- 2002 · CSI: Miami as Molly Walker
- 2001 · I Am Sam as Lucy (2 Years Old)
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Eden
- 1999 · Judging Amy as Rochelle Cobbs
- 1992 · MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self / Presenter
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self - Presenter
- Future · Margo's Got Money Troubles as Margo Millet
- 2025 · On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown" as Self
- 2020 · Penn & Teller: Try This at Home as Self
- 2020 · The Roads Not Taken as Molly
- 2019 · That Click as Self
- 2019 · A Rainy Day in New York as Ashleigh Enright
- 2019 · Camp! The Movie as Self
- 2019 · Teen Spirit as Violet Valenski
- 2018 · Galveston as Rocky
- 2018 · I Think We're Alone Now as Grace
- 2018 · Always at The Carlyle as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · The Vanishing of Sidney Hall as Melody
- 2017 · How to Talk to Girls at Parties as Zan
- 2017 · Mary Shelley as Mary Shelley
- 2016 · Live by Night as Loretta Figgis
- 2016 · 3 Generations as Ray
- 2015 · Trumbo as Nikola Trumbo
- 2014 · Young Ones as Mary Holm
- 2014 · Low Down as Amy Albany
- 2014 · First Stars I See Tonight as Girl
- 2013 · Twixt: A Documentary as Self
- 2013 · Likeness as Mia
- 2013 · Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment as Sara (Leaning Towards Solace)
- 2012 · Wide-Awake as The Rainmaker
- 2012 · Ginger & Rosa as Ginger
- 2011 · Twixt as V.
- 2011 · Making Somewhere as Self
- 2011 · The Curve of Forgotten Things as Girl
- 2010 · The Nutcracker as Mary
- 2010 · Somewhere as Cleo
- 2009 · First the Egg as
- 2008 · Phoebe in Wonderland as Phoebe Lichten
- 2007 · Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
- 2007 · Reservation Road as Emma Learner
- 2007 · A Very Brave Witch as
- 2007 · Day 73 with Sarah as Sarah
- 2007 · The Nines as Noelle
- 2006 · I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With as Penelope
- 2005 · Because of Winn-Dixie as Sweety Pie Thomas
- 2005 · P.N.O.K. as Rebecca Bullard
- 2004 · The Door in the Floor as Ruth Cole
- Future · The Nightingale as Isabelle
- Future · Rosebush Pruning as
- Future · I Am Sybil as Shirley Mason
- Future · The Maid of Orleans as Rebecca Spielman
- Future · Chippendales as