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Elle Fanning
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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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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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The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Criminal Minds
Robot Chicken
House
CSI: NY
CSI: Miami
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dirty Sexy Money
Judging Amy
No Activity
I Am Sam
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Astro Boy
Daddy Day Care
Déjà Vu
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
My Neighbor Totoro
Babel
We Bought a Zoo
The Nines
The Beguiled
The Boxtrolls
A Complete Unknown
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Discretion
A Rainy Day in New York
Maleficent
Super 8
Twixt
The Great
Mary Shelley
The Neon Demon
All the Bright Places
The Nutcracker
Predator: Badlands
Ballerina
Margo's Got Money Troubles
The Girl from Plainville
Production Credits
Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?
The Girl from Plainville
The Great
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Discretion
All the Bright Places
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
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