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2012 Top 10 Most Beautiful Female Teenage Celebrities
 Dakota Fanning, Age 19 years:
Hannah Dakota Fanning is born on February 23rd, 1994. She is known as Dakota
Fanning, is an American actress who rose to prominence after her breakthrough
performance in the 2001 film I Am Sam. As a child actress, she appeared in
high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web.
In 2006, Fanning began the transition to more adult roles with Hounddog and The
Secret Life of Bees. Her recent films have included The Twilight Saga, the
fantasy/horror animated children's movie Coraline, and The Runaways. In 2002,
she became the youngest nominee for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia. Her mother, Heather Joy, played tennis
professionally, and her father, Steven J. Fanning, played minor league baseball,
and works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandfather
was former American football player Rick Arrington, and her aunt is former ESPN
reporter Jill Arrington. Dakota is the elder sister of Elle Fanning, also an
actress. Fanning has Irish, German, English and French ancestry. She and her
family are Southern Baptist.
In January 2008, Fanning began filming the movie adaptation of The Secret Life
of Bees, a novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Set in South Carolina in 1964, the story
centers on Lily Owens, who escapes her lonely life and troubled relationship
with her father by running away with her caregiver and only friend played by
Jennifer Hudson to a South Carolina town where they are taken in by an eccentric
trio of beekeeping sisters (played by Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, and Alicia
Keys). Her movies Coraline and Push were released on the same day, February 6,
2009.
Fanning played Jane, a member of the Volturi Guard, in New Moon and reprised the
role in Eclipse, based on novels by Stephenie Meyer. New Moon was released on
November 20, 2009, and Eclipse was released on the following June. In 2010, she
starred in the movie The Runaways, alongside Kristen Stewart, Stella Maeve, and
Scout Taylor-Compton, where she played Cherie Currie, the lead singer of the
band. Then from the end of the year till early 2011, Fanning filmed Breaking
Dawn, reprising the role of Jane.
 Fanning's
voice was heard in Rise, a documentary film commissioned by U. S. Figure Skating
to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the crash of Sabena Flight 548 which
resulted in the loss of the entire American team and subsequent cancellation of
the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships. She read a poem written by US
national champion Laurence Owen (who died in the crash) that was said to be an
eerie premonition of the afterlife.
During the summer of 2011 she played Tessa in Now Is Good. Fanning also became
the face of Marc Jacobs� Oh, Lola! perfume campaign, but the ad was banned in
the U.K. as the Advertising Standards Authority judged that "the ad could be
seen to sexualize a child." In 2011, she played Annie James in The Motel Life,
due to be released in mid-2012. In the fall of 2011, Fanning played the starring
role in Effie, directed by Richard Laxton, written and co-starred by Emma
Thompson, with Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Derek
Jacobi and Claudia Cardinale.
In August 2012, she signed on to play the lead role of a wealthy financial
eco-terrorist, Dena Brauer, who finances a plan, in a thriller film "Night
Moves" opposite actors Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard. The movie will be
directed by Kelly Reichardt. "Night Moves" tells the story of three
eco-terrorists who work at an organic farm and collaborate on a plot to blow up
a hydroelectric dam. The shooting will start on October 16, 2012 and release
sometime in 2013.
In June 2011, Fanning graduated from Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood,
California, where she participated on the varsity spirit cheerleading squad and
was voted homecoming queen.She is currently studying at New York University.
In January 2012, it was reported that Fanning signed to be represented by
William Morris Endeavor, thus ending a 10-year-plus relation with Osbrink Talent
Agency.
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Dated 17 December 2012
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