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).
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A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father...
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Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second Cit...
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Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car a...
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Day 73 With Sarah tells the story of a little girl, who with the help of her dead father hatches a p...
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Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orle...
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On Christmas Eve in 1920s Vienna, a young girl named Mary and her brother are visited by their eccen...
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Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a ...
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"Leaning Towards Solace" stars Elle Fanning and John Hawkes as two lost souls attempting to connect ...
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A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960...
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An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of...
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In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soi...
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A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable fore...
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A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off...
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When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of be...
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In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who ...
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Vogue's original short film on Elle Fanning - fanning the rock, fawn, fan mail, fawn etc....
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The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation o...
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During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy sol...
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After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content w...
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Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of...
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Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as th...
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At the Met Gala 2019, Lady Gaga, Cardi B, Kim Kardashian West, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Celine ...
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A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mento...
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Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad we...
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The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way ...
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New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheava...
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Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned ...
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Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning...
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) | Effie Trinket | - | - |
| 2 | Sentimental Value (2025) | Rachel Kemp | 6 | |
| 3 | Predator: Badlands (2025) | Thia / Tessa | 8.3 | |
| 4 | A Complete Unknown (2024) | Sylvie Russo | 6.3 | |
| 5 | The Roads Not Taken (2020) | Molly | - | - |
| 6 | All the Bright Places (2020) | Violet | 5.5 | |
| 7 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) | Princess Aurora | 7 | |
| 8 | Camp! The Movie (2019) | Self | 3 | |
| 9 | Teen Spirit (2019) | Violet Valenski | 6.8 | |
| 10 | A Rainy Day in New York (2019) | Ashleigh Enright | 7.2 | |
| 11 | I Think We're Alone Now (2018) | Grace | 6.8 | |
| 12 | Galveston (2018) | Rocky | 6.9 | |
| 13 | The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018) | Melody | 5.8 | |
| 14 | Elle Fanning's Fan Fantasy (2017) | Self | 8.5 | |
| 15 | Mary Shelley (2017) | Mary Shelley | 7 | |
| 16 | The Beguiled (2017) | Alicia | 6.6 | |
| 17 | How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) | Zan | 7.2 | |
| 18 | Live by Night (2016) | Loretta Figgis | 7 | |
| 19 | The Neon Demon (2016) | Jesse | 6 | |
| 20 | Ballerina (2016) | Felicie (voice) | 6.9 | |
| 21 | 20th Century Women (2016) | Julie | 7.5 | |
| 22 | 3 Generations (2016) | Ray | 6 | |
| 23 | Trumbo (2015) Oscars 2016 | Niki Trumbo | 7.8 | |
| 24 | The Boxtrolls (2014) Oscars 2015 | Winnie Portley-Rind (voice) | 7 | |
| 25 | Young Ones (2014) | Mary Holm | 6.7 | |
| 26 | Maleficent (2014) Oscars 2015 | Princess Aurora | 7 | |
| 27 | Likeness (2013) | Mia | 5 | |
| 28 | Leaning Towards Solace (2012) | Sara | 7 | |
| 29 | Ginger & Rosa (2012) | Ginger | 6.8 | |
| 30 | Twixt (2011) | V. | 5 | |
| 31 | Super 8 (2011) | Alice Dainard | 7.1 | |
| 32 | We Bought a Zoo (2011) | Lily Miska | 7.3 | |
| 33 | Somewhere (2010) | Cleo | 6.5 | |
| 34 | The Nutcracker (2010) | Mary | 6.3 | |
| 35 | Astro Boy (2009) | Grace (voice) | 7 | |
| 36 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Oscars 2009 | Daisy Age 7 | 7.5 | |
| 37 | Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) | Phoebe Lichten | 8.5 | |
| 38 | The Nines (2007) | Noelle | 6.9 | |
| 39 | Reservation Road (2007) | Emma Learner | 7 | |
| 40 | Day 73 with Sarah (2007) | Sarah | 7 | |
| 41 | I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006) | Penelope | 5 | |
| 42 | Babel (2006) Oscars 2007 | Debbie Jones | 7.2 | |
| 43 | Déjà Vu (2006) | Abbey | 7.1 | |
| 44 | Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) | Sweety Pie Thomas | 6 | |
| 45 | The Door in the Floor (2004) | Ruth Cole | 6.5 | |
| 46 | Daddy Day Care (2003) | Jamie | 5.8 | |
| 47 | I Am Sam (2001) Oscars 2002 | Lucy (2 Years Old) | 7.6 |
