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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RevenueActing
Primarily2027 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)