Monday, February 2, 2009

Dakota Fanning



Dakota Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Steven and Joy Fanning. Steven Fanning was a former baseball captain with the Conyers baseball team. Dakota is accompanied by her younger sister Elle, who is also a well known actress. Dakota Fanning belongs to half German descent and half Irish origin. Dakota and her family are Baptists, members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
To Dakota Fanning, acting was a passion since the age of five, when she started giving stage shows. She got her first break at the age of seven when she appeared with distinguished musician Ray Charles in a television commercial for the Georgia State Lottery. After this, she was also chosen for a Tide commercial which launched her into the television world. Her first major acting job was a guest-starring role in the NBC prime-time drama, ER, which remains one of her favorite roles in which she played a car accident victim who has leukemia.

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