10 bright child roles of Dakota Fanning, who was cast in all Hollywood films where a child was needed (11 photos)

Starting from 2001 and approximately until “Twilight,” that is, from 7 to 15 years old, Dakota played about twenty roles, already becoming extremely recognizable at that age.





Answering the question “who can be called the main movie child in history?”, one can sketch out many options - Macaulay Culkin, the Olsen sisters, Haley Joel Osment or the entire children's cast of Harry Potter. But even among all of them, Dakota Fanning, who can be called the “main Hollywood daughter” of the 2000s, will occupy a special place. In this decade, she was taken on in almost all prominent projects where a girl of her age was needed. If, according to the plot of the film, the characters have a daughter, they called Dakota’s parents. Thus, she played the role of the child of many star actors of the 2000s, collecting a solid portfolio of prominent partners on the set and directors with whom she worked.

I Am Sam (2001)



Dakota is the daughter of Sean Penn. The main character Sam is a 40-year-old man with developmental delays and the father of 7-year-old Lucy, who has already caught up with him in intelligence, whom social workers want to take away from Sam.

Wrath (2004)





Dakota is the daughter of a wealthy businessman, who is protected by Denzel Washington himself (with the help of Christopher Walken).

24 hours (2002)



Dakota is the kidnapped daughter of Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend (where was Denzel?!). The roles of the kidnappers were played by Courtney Love and Kevin Bacon.

You can already wonder how many prominent actors Dakota played with when she was not yet 10 years old.

Hide and Seek (2005)



Dakota is the daughter of Robert De Niro, with whom something is wrong. Or does she just think so? This time, 11-year-old Dakota looked into a thriller or even a horror movie.

War of the Worlds (2005)



Dakota is the daughter of Tom Cruise. Everything is fine with him, but not with the world, since the Earth was attacked by hostile aliens.

Among viewers, this Dakota heroine has long received the status of one of the most annoying children in their films. Here she moved away from her usual role of a “smart child.” But this was probably the director’s intention, and the director of “War of the Worlds” was none other than Steven Spielberg.

Can you imagine what kind of career the 11-year-old actress already had??

Hunted (2007)



Dakota is a teenage Elvis Presley fan from a poor family in the United States in the 1960s.

This is probably the actress's most controversial role, as her character goes through violence that is not left behind the scenes, as you might expect - in this terrible scene we only see her face, but still the 13-year-old actress acted out her reaction to the traumatic act . After the film's release, many viewers and critics were perplexed as to how the parents and creators of "Hounded" allowed the underage Dakota to participate in the filming of such a scene.

Afterwards, Dakota herself stated that this was just acting and she wanted to play a similar role, where her heroine shows that it is possible to overcome any trauma. Once again, one can be amazed at the margin with which she was ahead of her peers, setting herself similar tasks and encountering scandals of this kind. True, the film itself was not particularly successful.

Dreamer (2005)



Dakota is the daughter of Kurt Russell. She plays a precocious daughter (totally unsurprising), who is somewhat inferior in terms of the amount of paternal attention... to horses.

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)



This time, the already noticeably matured Dakota played a daughter again, but one who runs away from her father with an adult dark-skinned friend. And around the southern states of the USA and the still racist year of 1964.

Charlotte's Web (2006)



One of Dakota's first leading roles, where she again played with the stars - Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, Oprah Winfrey and Kathy Bates. True, this time they all voicedtaught animals that talk to each other.

The Fifth Dimension (2009)



Dakota is the companion of Chris Evans, who are united by supernatural abilities. He has telekinetic ones, she has visionary ones. The heroine sees a future in which the two of them can confront a powerful corporation that uses people with similar abilities for insidious purposes.

Whether the heroine sees that Chris will become Captain America and she will become a vampire from “Twilight” is not said in the film.

Now Dakota continues to actively act in films - as an adult she has worked with Quentin Tarantino, appearing in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the film The Nightingale is soon to be released, where she will share the main role with her sister Elle Fanning.