Known For: American actress (born 1998)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, screenwriter, television actor, model, film actor, voice actor, film director
Country: United States of America
City: Conyers
Date of Birth: Thursday, 09 April 1998
Language American English
Mary Elle Fanning is an American actress. She made her film debut as a child 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, 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).
| BirthPlace | Conyers |
| Education | Q7896321, Q5028077 |
| Relatives | Rick Arrington, Jill Arrington |
| Wikipedia | Elle_Fanning |
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| X (Twitter) | ElleFanning |
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Heather Joy (née Arrington) and Steven J. Fanning, who played minor league baseball for teams affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals. Her maternal grandfather was American football player Rick Arrington, and her aunt is ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Counted among the Arrington family's most notable ancestors is the gentleman farmer William Farrar. Fanning is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning; both she and her sister use their middle names as their given names per family tradition. They were brought up in the Southern Baptist denomination. Fanning is a 2016 graduate of Campbell Hall School. She is of German, English, Irish, French and Channel Islander descent.
