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).
94 acting credits
Acting · 94
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Criminal Minds
2005
House
2004
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
CSI: Miami
2002
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Conan
2010
CSI: NY
2004
Predator: Badlands
2025
Margo's Got Money Troubles
2026
Robot Chicken
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Judging Amy
1999
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
The Great
2020
The Oscars
1953
Maleficent
2014
Sentimental Value
2025
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
Taken
2002
No Activity
2017
Dirty Sexy Money
2007
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
A Complete Unknown
2024
Déjà Vu
2006
I Am Sam
2001
Ballerina
2016
Babel
2006
The Neon Demon
2016
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
We Bought a Zoo
2011
Super 8
2011
The Lost Room
2006
The Boxtrolls
2014
Daddy Day Care
2003
All the Bright Places
2020
Astro Boy
2009
The Girl from Plainville
2022
The Rosie Show
2011
The Beguiled
2017
Live by Night
2016
Young Ones
2014
20th Century Women
2016
Trumbo
2015
The Nutcracker
2010
The Nightingale
2027
Paris in Love
2021
The Door in the Floor
2004
I Think We're Alone Now
2018
Rosebush Pruning
2026
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017
Somewhere
2010
Teen Spirit
2019
Reservation Road
2007
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
Mary Shelley
2017
Galveston
2018
Ginger & Rosa
2012
Discretion
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Because of Winn-Dixie
2005
The Nines
2007
Twixt
2011
3 Generations
2016
On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown"
2025
Phoebe in Wonderland
2008
The Roads Not Taken
2020
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
2006
Low Down
2014
Camp! The Movie
2019
The Disney Family Singalong
2020
Wide-Awake
2012
That Click
2019
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
2013
Day 73 with Sarah
2007
Likeness
2013
The Curve of Forgotten Things
2011
Penn & Teller: Try This at Home
2020
I Am Sybil
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Twixt: A Documentary
2013
A Rainy Day in New York
2019
Hollywood Cream
2026
Making Somewhere
2011
P.N.O.K.
2005
First Stars I See Tonight
2014
A Very Brave Witch
2007
First the Egg
2009
Elle Fanning's Fan Fantasy
2017