
Elle Fanning
Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress. She made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001). As a child actress, she appeared in several films, including Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008). In 2010 she starred in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (2010) earning her a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer nomination. In 2011 she received attention for her starring role in J. J. Abrams' science-fiction film Super 8, earning a Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Film Festival. She subsequently had leading roles in the comedy-drama film We Bought a Zoo (2011), the drama film Ginger & Rosa (2012), and as Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).
Following Maleficent, Fanning began working in independent cinema, collaborating with auteurs in lead and supporting roles in films such as Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled (2017), John Cameron Mitchell's How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York (2019), and Sally Potter's The Roads Not Taken (2020). In 2019, aged 21, she became the youngest person to serve as a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival. She played Empress Catherine II in the Hulu series The Great (2020–2023), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nomination as well as two Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy nominations and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In 2022 she starred as Michelle Carter in the Hulu limited series The Girl from Plainville.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.062 |
Birthday | 1998-04-09 |
Place of Birth | Conyers, Georgia, USA |
Also Known As | Mary Elle Fanning , Эль Фэннинг, Эль Фаннинг, 艾丽·范宁, 엘 패닝, إيل فانينغ, Ель Фаннінг, Ель Феннінг, Елль Феннінґ, اِل فَنینگ, |

2004

The Door in the Floor
6.1/214
The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion withdraws from Ted and Ruth, the c...
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The Door in the Floor

2008

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7.591/12979
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2006

Déjà Vu
6.871/4901
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the sce...
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Déjà Vu

2007

Reservation Road
6.5/385
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In respo...
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Reservation Road

2007

The Nines
6/432
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
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The Nines

2011

Super 8
6.768/6652
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train dera...
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Chippendales
0/0
Several partners turn an idea for a male strip revue catering to ladies into a wildly successful venture and deal with the crazy consequences of it al...
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2009

Astro Boy
6.3/1541
Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he...
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2010

Somewhere
6.069/752
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a vis...
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2005

Because of Winn-Dixie
6.3/228
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn...
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Because of Winn-Dixie

2010

The Nutcracker
5.1/190
In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.
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2008

Phoebe in Wonderland
7.2/154
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoe...
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2024

A Complete Unknown
7.2/745
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives...
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2011

We Bought a Zoo
6.803/2752
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son i...
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We Bought a Zoo


Rosebush Pruning
0/0
In the claustrophobic confines of a rural estate, a family struggles with their tangled web of hereditary diseases. Among them is Alessandro, a young...
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Rosebush Pruning


I Am Sybil
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Explores the gripping true story behind the best-selling book and cultural-sensation case of Sybil, one of the first mainstream cases of dissociative...
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I Am Sybil

2011

Twixt
5.07/294
A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he i...
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Twixt

2014

Maleficent
7.1/13223
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army th...
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Maleficent

2012

Ginger & Rosa
6.1/222
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and th...
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Ginger & Rosa

2014

The Boxtrolls
6.7/1696
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the...
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The Boxtrolls

2014

Young Ones
5.7/301
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to st...
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Young Ones

2013

Likeness
6.3/30
For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.
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Likeness

2014

Low Down
5.6/57
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
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Low Down

2014

First Stars I See Tonight
4/1
A girl with vision defects tells about the first time she saw stars, thanks to night vision goggles bought by her father.
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First Stars I See Tonight

2011

The Curve of Forgotten Things
6.5/10
A magical girl, who exists outside of space and time, inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern, and spends her days playing and...
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The Curve of Forgotten Things

2015

Trumbo
7.161/1590
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...
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Trumbo

2016

Live by Night
6.248/1305
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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2016

The Neon Demon
6.5/3754
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necess...
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The Neon Demon

2016

20th Century Women
7.329/1147
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment...
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2016

3 Generations
6.4/433
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
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2017

How to Talk to Girls at Parties
6.004/393
In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they...
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2017

Mary Shelley
7.027/993
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern...
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Mary Shelley

2009

First the Egg
0/0
Which came first? The chicken or the egg? A book about transformations...from egg to chicken, seed to flower, and caterpillar to butterfly. An entirel...
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First the Egg

2018

Always at The Carlyle
7/19
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorker...
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Always at The Carlyle

2016

Ballerina
7.194/1883
In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to...
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2018

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
6.7/259
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

2025

Predator: Badlands
0/0
Premise TBA. Set sometime in the future.
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2017

The Beguiled
5.9/2161
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wound...
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The Beguiled

2003

Daddy Day Care
5.898/2136
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
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Daddy Day Care

2007

Day 73 with Sarah
6.7/10
Day 73 With Sarah tells the story of a little girl, who with the help of her dead father hatches a plan to save herself and her mother from her abusiv...
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Day 73 with Sarah

2001

I Am Sam
7.6/2326
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own....
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I Am Sam

2006

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
5.5/44
Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been...
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I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

2006

Babel
7.172/3807
In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the w...
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Babel

2005

P.N.O.K.
0/0
Chronicles a day in the life of 2 soldiers on Casualty Notification Duty as they bear the grim news of 3 soldiers killed in Iraq to 3 families back ho...
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P.N.O.K.

2025

Sentimental Value
0/0
Nora, an actor, and her sister Agnes, are grieving the loss of their mother when their father Gustav reappears in their lives after a long absence. Gu...
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2018

Galveston
6.1/511
After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galves...
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Galveston

2019

Teen Spirit
6.1/332
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test...
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Teen Spirit

2018

I Think We're Alone Now
5.8/406
After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content with the utopia he has methodically created for him...
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I Think We're Alone Now

2019

A Rainy Day in New York
6.5/2269
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
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A Rainy Day in New York

2020

All the Bright Places
7.6/2895
Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.
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All the Bright Places

2019

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
7.303/6178
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

2012

Wide-Awake
5.8/8
Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave the dreamiest performances of 2012.
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Wide-Awake

2020

The Roads Not Taken
5.5/81
The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way around New York City, until their ordinary but str...
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The Roads Not Taken

2019

Camp! The Movie
4.6/10
At the Met Gala 2019, Lady Gaga, Cardi B, Kim Kardashian West, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Celine Dion, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Harry Styles, Bette...
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Camp! The Movie

2007

A Very Brave Witch
0/0
One Halloween, a little witch decides she'd finally like to see what this special night is about. As soon as she makes a new friend, she discusses how...
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The Nightingale
0/0
The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.
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The Nightingale

2013

Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
7.7/7
Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from...
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Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment

2020

Penn & Teller: Try This at Home
8.7/3
A special for these unique times. Filmed entirely at the homes of Penn & Teller and their friends around the world, Penn & Teller: Try This at Home sh...
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Penn & Teller: Try This at Home

2013

Twixt: A Documentary
0/0
The making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Twixt," directed by his granddaughter Gia.
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Twixt: A Documentary

2019

That Click
9/4
A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of po...
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That Click

2011

Making Somewhere
0/0
Like the movie, this behind the scenes takes a more artistic turn. It lingers on and around filmmakers as the discuss the movie.
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Making Somewhere

2007

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
0/0
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2017

Elle Fanning's Fan Fantasy
0/0
Vogue's original short film on Elle Fanning - fanning the rock, fawn, fan mail, fawn etc.
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