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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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2027 The Nightingale as Isabelle Producer

2026 The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Effie Trinket

2025 Predator: Badlands as Thia

2025 Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp

2025 Chippendales

2025 I Am Sybil as Shirley Mason

2025 Rosebush Pruning

2025 The Maid of Orleans as Rebecca Spielman Producer

2025 On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown" as Self

2024 A Complete Unknown as Sylvie Russo

2020 Penn & Teller: Try This at Home as Self

2020 The Great as Catherine II of Russia

2020 The Roads Not Taken as Molly

2020 All the Bright Places as Violet Producer

2019 That Click as Self

2019 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Princess Aurora

2019 A Rainy Day in New York as Ashleigh Enright

2019 Camp! The Movie as Self

2019 Teen Spirit as Violet Valenski

2018 Galveston as Rocky

2018 I Think We're Alone Now as Grace

2018 Always at The Carlyle as Self (archive footage)

2018 The Vanishing of Sidney Hall as Melody

2017 How to Talk to Girls at Parties as Zan

2017 Mary Shelley as Mary Shelley

2017 The Beguiled as Alicia

2016 20th Century Women as Julie

2016 Live by Night as Loretta Figgis

2016 Ballerina as Félicie Milliner (voice)

2016 3 Generations as Ray

2016 The Neon Demon as Jesse

2015 Trumbo as Nikola Trumbo

2014 The Boxtrolls as Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)

2014 Young Ones as Mary Holm

2014 Maleficent as Princess Aurora

2014 Low Down as Amy Albany

2014 First Stars I See Tonight as Girl

2013 Twixt: A Documentary as Self

2013 Likeness as Mia

2013 Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment as Sara (Leaning Towards Solace)

2012 Wide-Awake as The Rainmaker

2012 Ginger & Rosa as Ginger

2011 We Bought a Zoo as Lily Miska

2011 Twixt as V.

2011 Super 8 as Alice Dainard

2011 Making Somewhere as Self

2011 The Curve of Forgotten Things as Girl

2010 The Nutcracker as Mary

2010 Somewhere as Cleo

2009 Astro Boy as Grace (voice)

2009 First the Egg

2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Daisy Age 7

2008 Phoebe in Wonderland as Phoebe Lichten

2007 Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self

2007 Reservation Road as Emma Learner

2007 A Very Brave Witch

2007 Day 73 with Sarah as Sarah

2007 The Nines as Noelle

2006 Déjà Vu as Abbey

2006 Babel as Debbie Jones

2006 I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With as Penelope

2005 Because of Winn-Dixie as Sweety Pie Thomas

2005 P.N.O.K. as Rebecca Bullard

2004 The Door in the Floor as Ruth Cole

2003 Daddy Day Care as Jamie

2001 I Am Sam as Lucy (2 Years Old)

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