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BASICS

Name: Hannah Dakota Fanning.
Known As: Dakota.
Birthday: February 23rd 1994.
Birthplace: Conyers, Georgia, USA.
Current Location: Los Angeles, California, USA.
Current Age: 15.
Eye Colour: Blue.
Hair Colour: Blonde.
Parents: Joy and Steve Fanning.
Siblings: Elle Fanning.
Pets: A horse named Goldie and a Schnoodle dog named Lewellen.

HOBBIES

- Acting
- Knitting
- Dancing ballet
- Horseback riding
- Reading
- Violin
- Piano

OTHERS FUN FACTS

1. Her whole name is Hannah Dakota Fanning. Her mom named her Hannah, and her dad named her Dakota. And she goes by her middle name.
2. She was born on February 23, 1994, in Conyers, Georgia.
3. Her favorite color is pink.
4. She has 1 younger sister, Elle, who is also an actress.
5. She likes to knit.
6. She started reading when she was 2.
7. She loves to know what her name will be for a movie.
8. She can play the piano, knit, ballet, ride horses, and she collects dolls.
9. Her first acting role was when she was 5, in a Tide commercial.
10. She is one of 14 grandchildren.
11. She loves to read.
12. She likes Taco Bell. She orders a Nachos Bell Grande with meat and cheese only.
13. Tom Cruise gave Dakota a cell phone for her 11th birthday.
14. She had braces and an expander.
15. Dakota spent a lot of time jumping on her bed and talking to her grandma when she got the part of Lucy Diamond Dawson for I Am Sam.
16. She has a horse, named Goldie. Kurt Russel gave Goldie to Dakota. He named the horse.
17. Dakota was homeschooled since 1st grade to 8th grade.
18. Dakota and Elle are afraid of thunderstorms and lightning.
19. She has seen sites on the internet devoted to her, and she thinks that they are very nice. She is honored that people will do things like that for her!
20. Dakota belongs to the Red Cross.
21. She didnt' eat any Mexican food when she was filming Man On Fire.
22. You can see the 4th of July fireworks from her house.
23. She loves I Love Lucy.
24. Some of her favorite movies are My Best Friend's Wedding, Gone with the Wind, Titanic,  and Steel Magnolias.
25. Her favorite kind of clothing is jeans.
27. She is a big fan of Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz and Holly Hunter.
28. She carries a book of baby names with her wherever she goes.
29. She can memorize things easily.
30. Dakota would like to be a director.
31. She is of Scandanavian descent.
32. She collects dolls.
33. She is a Girl Scout and Elle is a Brownie.
34. She plays the piano and can play the violin.
35. She is learning to speak French and knows some Spanish.
36. On her eleventh birthday, Tom Cruise gave her a cell phone.
37. Tom Cruise, during the filming of War of the Worlds, gave her an iPod loaded with thousands of songs on it.
38.Is friends with Daveigh Chase who voised Lilo and Stich.
39. Learned how to ride a race horse for 'Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story.'
40. For the 'sad' scenes in I am Sam (2001), she thought of her pet goldfish, Flounder, dying.
41. Looks up to Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep.
42. Often buys premiere dresses from Belle of the Ball.
43. Used to wear a lot of clothes by "Oilily".
44. Loves to wear "Juicy Couture".
45. Sang with the muppets on the Queen Mary 2 for Conlon Cancer Benefit.
46. Did her scene for "Nine Lives" in one take.
47. Dakota and Elle tried to become vegetarians, but it didn't work out, because they don't like vegetables.
48. Replies to fan mail because she appreciates her fans writing to her so much.
49. She likes to pretend she's talking to someone on her cellphone, when really there is no-one there.
50. Has covered every genre in movies - horror, thriller, comedy, romance, action, sci-fi, indie.
51. Bonds well with all her co-stars.
52. Liked to sit in Steven Spielberg's "Dad" chair during the filming of "War of the Worlds".
53. Learned to speak Spanish for her role in Man on Fire.
54. Is very neat and tidy compared to Elle who is messy.
55. When going on talk shows always brings gifts for the host.
56. She loves a store called Fifi and Romeo in California that sells dog accessories.
57. Her first word was "Momo," which was the family cat's name.
58. Sean Penn taught her how to ab-lib.
59. A doll was made of her for the movie Dreamer.
60. Tom Cruise gave her an iPod, Denzel Washington gave her a children's encyclopedia, Sean Penn gave her several CD's and a tree, Robert De Niro gave her a Disney DVD Collection and an American Girl Doll that looks like her character Emily in Hide and Seek and Kurt Russell gave her a horse, Goldie who is a boy.
61. For Halloween 2004, Dakota was Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind. She dressed up as her again in 2005 because people thought she was trying to be a witch in 2004. One lady even said to her "your a very pretty witch".
62. When Dakota eats French fries, she scoops the potatoes out of them with a fork because she only likes the crispy part.
63. During her July 30, 2003 apperance on the Jay Leno show, she named all the presidents in under twenty seconds.
64. She named her character Rachel in "War of the Worlds" teddy horse "Wilson" after Wilson the football in the movie "Cast Away" because Rachel always has him by her side.
65. Didn't go to the premiere of "Lilo and Stitch 2" because she was down in Mexico while Elle was filming "Babel" there.
66. She has had six teeth pulled.
67. She hates most fruit and vegtables and eggs.
68. Dakota is 5' 4" in height.
69.She did not have to dye her hair brown for her role in "Hide and Seek". She wore a brown wig, which she liked.
70. She has a German Grandmother and at Christmas they hide an ornament in a pickle and whoever finds it gets a prize.
71.People call her Kota or Dee.
72.She had a crush on Orlando Bloom
73. Dakota attended to the premieres of her movies "Push" and "Coraline" wich were premiered the same day!
74. She started going to a private school in California in High School
75. Dakota skipped one year
76. Dakota is a Cheerleader
77. Dakota has been a co-star of Kristen Stewart several times

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