Dakota Fanning: Encyclopedia II - Dakota Fanning - Trivia

Dakota Fanning - Trivia

Dakota Fanning's sister, Elle Fanning, is a budding actress. Elle began her career by playing younger versions of Dakota's characters in I am Sam and Taken.

At age five, Dakota appeared with legendary musician Ray Charles in a television commercial for the Georgia State Lottery. [7]

Dakota appeared on The Tonight Show on November 10, 2003, where she declared that she and her sister shared a room, and described The Cat in the Hat co-star Mike Myers as "very funny". In a subsequent Tonight Show interview on July 12, 2005, she revealed that she received a cell phone from War of the Worlds co-star Tom Cruise for her birthday, much to her parents' chagrin. She made a third appearance on The Tonight Show on October 19, 2005, in which she demonstrated her technique for selling Girl Scout cookies.

Tony Scott, director of Man on Fire, and Steven Spielberg, director of War of the Worlds, had very similar things to say about Fanning. Says Scott: "The kid is extraordinary—not just in terms of her acting ability, just her instincts about moments in time." Spielberg marveled at "how quickly she understands the situation in a sequence, how quickly she sizes it up, measures it up and how she would really react in a real situation ... pure, unadulterated honesty."

When Dreamer opened in October, 2005, critics were not only impressed with her performance, but with the ability to headline her own film when it debuted at #2 at the box office.

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