Elle Fanning
Acting
1998-04-09 · Conyers, Georgia, USA
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).
Filmography
TheatersThe Nightingale
2027 · Movie
TheatersThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026 · Movie
Rosebush Pruning
2026 · Movie
Margo's Got Money Troubles
2026 · Series
Predator: Badlands
2025 · Movie
Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?
2025 · Series
Sentimental Value
2025 · Movie
On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown"
2025 · Movie
A Complete Unknown
2024 · Movie
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
2024 · Series
The Girl from Plainville
2022 · Series
Paris in Love
2021 · Series
Penn & Teller: Try This at Home
2020 · Movie
The Great
2020 · Series
The Disney Family Singalong
2020 · Movie
The Roads Not Taken
2020 · Movie
All the Bright Places
2020 · Movie
That Click
2019 · Movie
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · Movie
Camp! The Movie
2019 · Movie
Teen Spirit
2019 · Movie
Galveston
2018 · Movie
I Think We're Alone Now
2018 · Movie
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018 · Movie
No Activity
2017 · Series
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017 · Movie
Mary Shelley
2017 · Movie
The Beguiled
2017 · Movie
Elle Fanning's Fan Fantasy
2017 · Movie
20th Century Women
2016 · Movie
Live by Night
2016 · Movie
Ballerina
2016 · Movie
3 Generations
2016 · Movie
The Neon Demon
2016 · Movie
Trumbo
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
The Boxtrolls
2014 · Movie
Young Ones
2014 · Movie
Maleficent
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Low Down
2014 · Movie
First Stars I See Tonight
2014 · Movie
Twixt: A Documentary
2013 · Movie
Likeness
2013 · Movie
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
2013 · Movie
Wide-Awake
2012 · Movie
Ginger & Rosa
2012 · Movie
We Bought a Zoo
2011 · Movie
The Rosie Show
2011 · Series
Twixt
2011 · Movie
Super 8
2011 · Movie
Making Somewhere
2011 · Movie
The Curve of Forgotten Things
2011 · Movie
The Nutcracker
2010 · Movie
Conan
2010 · Series
Somewhere
2010 · Movie
Astro Boy
2009 · Movie
First the Egg
2009 · Movie
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · Movie
Phoebe in Wonderland
2008 · Movie
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007 · Movie
Dirty Sexy Money
2007 · Series
Reservation Road
2007 · Movie
A Very Brave Witch
2007 · Movie
Day 73 with Sarah
2007 · Movie
The Nines
2007 · Movie
The Lost Room
2006 · Series
Déjà Vu
2006 · Movie
Babel
2006 · Movie
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
2006 · Movie
Criminal Minds
2005 · Series
Robot Chicken
2005 · Series
Because of Winn-Dixie
2005 · Movie
P.N.O.K.
2005 · Movie
House
2004 · Series
CSI: NY
2004 · Series
The Door in the Floor
2004 · Movie
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
Daddy Day Care
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Taken
2002 · Series
CSI: Miami
2002 · Series
I Am Sam
2001 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Judging Amy
1999 · Series
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Discretion
Series
Untitled Dakota Fanning Thriller Series
Series
I Am Sybil
Movie
Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses
Movie