Elle Fanning
Actor
Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress and singer. She is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning and mainly known for her starring roles in Phoebe in Wonderland, Somewhere, Maleficent, About Ray, and as Jesse in 2016's The Neon Demon.
In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as Alice Dainard in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, Super 8. For this role, she received positive reviews and was often cited as one of the film's best aspects.
Filmography - Acting
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The Roads Not Taken (2020)
As: Molly
The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly as she grapples with the challenges of dealing with her father’s chaotic mental state. But as they weave their way around New York City, their ordinary but stressful day takes on a hallucinatory and epic quality, for Leo is seamlessly flowing in and out of several parallel lives; a passionate marriage with his childhood sweetheart ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Sally Potter
Stars: Laura Linney | Elle Fanning | Salma Hayek | Javier Bardem | Chris Rock
All the Bright Places (2020)
As: Violet Markey
Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Brett Haley
Stars: Elle Fanning | Justice Smith | Luke Wilson | Keegan-Michael Key | Alexandra Shipp
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
As: Princess Aurora
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Joachim Rønning
Stars: Angelina Jolie | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Elle Fanning | Michelle Pfeiffer | Harris Dickinson
Teen Spirit (2019)
As: Violet Valenski
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Max Minghella
Stars: Rebecca Hall | Elle Fanning | Agnieszka Grochowska | Zlatko Burić | Millie Brady
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
As: Grace
Del is alone in the world. After the human race is wiped out, he lives in his small, empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he's methodically created for himself -- until he is discovered by Grace, an interloper whose history and motives are obscure. And to make matters worse, she wants to stay.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Reed Morano
Stars: Paul Giamatti | Peter Dinklage | Elle Fanning | Charlotte Gainsbourg
A Rainy Day In New York (2017)
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend; once they arrive they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Selena Gomez | Jude Law | Liev Schreiber | Elle Fanning | Timothée Chalamet
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
As: Zan
Croydon, 1977. A trio of punk teenagers goes to a party to meet girls, but they find that girls there are very different from what they expected.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: John Cameron Mitchell
Stars: Nicole Kidman | Elle Fanning | Matt Lucas | Alex Sharp | Ruth Wilson
The Beguiled (2017)
As: Alicia
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Colin Farrell | Nicole Kidman | Elle Fanning | Kirsten Dunst | Oona Laurence
Elle Fanning's Fan Fantasy (2017)
As: Elle Fanning
A Vogue Original Short featuring a myriad of plays on word.
Runtime: 2 min.
Directed by: Henry Joost | Ariel Schulman
Stars: Elle Fanning
Sidney Hall (2017)
As: Melody
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Shawn Christensen
Stars: Kyle Chandler | Logan Lerman | Elle Fanning | Michelle Monaghan | Nathan Lane
20th Century Women (2016)
As: Julie Miller
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Mike Mills
Stars: Elle Fanning | Annette Bening | Billy Crudup | Greta Gerwig | Lucas Jade Zumann
Live by Night (2016)
As: Loretta Figgis
A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Ben Affleck
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Chris Messina | Elle Fanning | Ben Affleck | Sienna Miller
Ballerina (2016)
As: Félicie Milliner (voice)
Set in 1879 Paris. An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Éric Warin | Eric Summer
Stars: Elle Fanning | Mel Brooks | Dane DeHaan | Carly Rae Jepsen | Maddie Ziegler
The Neon Demon (2016)
As: Jesse
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Elle Fanning | Jena Malone | Bella Heathcote | Abbey Lee | Karl Glusman
A Storm in the Stars (2016)
As: Mary Shelley
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Stars: Elle Fanning | Stephen Dillane | Douglas Booth | Joanne Froggatt | Bel Powley
Trumbo (2015)
As: Nikola Trumbo
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Jay Roach
Stars: Bryan Cranston | Helen Mirren | Diane Lane | Elle Fanning | Louis C.K.
About Ray (2015)
As: Ray
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Gaby Dellal
Stars: Susan Sarandon | Elle Fanning | Naomi Watts | Tate Donovan | Maria Dizzia
Galveston (2015)
As: Raquel Arceneaux
After a violent encounter with his boss' men, Roy finds a prostitute and sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Mélanie Laurent
Stars: Beau Bridges | Elle Fanning | Ben Foster | Adepero Oduye | Lili Reinhart
Lennon or McCartney (2014)
As: Herself (archive footage)
550 Artists were interviewed over the last ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. Some stuck to one, some said more, some answered quickly, some thought it through, and some didn't answer at all. That question... Lennon or McCartney.
Runtime: 34 min.
Directed by: Matt Schichter
Stars: Aasif Mandvi | Adam Levine | Adam Lambert | James Valentine | James Valentine
The Boxtrolls (2014)
As: Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Graham Annable | Anthony Stacchi
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Elle Fanning | Dee Bradley Baker | Toni Collette | Isaac Hempstead-Wright
Maleficent (2014)
As: Princess Aurora
The untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the 1959 classic 'Sleeping Beauty'. A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Robert Stromberg
Stars: Angelina Jolie | Elle Fanning | Sharlto Copley | Juno Temple | Sam Riley
Low Down (2014)
As: Amy Albany
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Jeff Preiss
Stars: John Hawkes | Peter Dinklage | Lena Headey | Elle Fanning | Glenn Close
Young Ones (2014)
As: Mary Holm
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Jake Paltrow
Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee | Elle Fanning | Michael Shannon | Nicholas Hoult | Aimee Mullins
Likeness (2013)
As: Mia
For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.
Runtime: 9 min.
Directed by: Rodrigo Prieto
Stars: Elle Fanning | Chelsea Schuchman | Ximena Prieto | Monroe Alvarez | Walker Bunting
Leaning Towards Solace (2012)
As: Sara
"Leaning Towards Solace" stars Elle Fanning and John Hawkes as two lost souls attempting to connect in "the space between places." The two characters' bond is revealed in stages, treading the line of life, loss, and rebirth.
Runtime: 12 min.
Directed by: Floria Sigismondi
Stars: John Hawkes | Elle Fanning | Ever Rabineau
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
As: Ginger
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Sally Potter
Stars: Timothy Spall | Elle Fanning | Alessandro Nivola | Alice Englert | Christina Hendricks
Twixt (2012)
As: V.
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Ben Chaplin | Val Kilmer | Elle Fanning | Joanne Whalley | Bruce Dern
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
As: Lily Miska
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Matt Damon | Thomas Haden Church | Colin Ford | Scarlett Johansson | Maggie Elizabeth Jones
Super 8 (2011)
As: Alice Dainard
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Kyle Chandler | Elle Fanning | Ryan Lee | Joel Courtney | Riley Griffiths
The Curve of Forgotten Things (2011)
In this film, Elle Fanning is a magical young girl existing outside of space and time. She inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern. She spends her days playing and collecting objects from history, things that she loves. She appears timeless. We follow her on a beautifully photographed, sun-drenched walk through oil fields. The mood is light and playful as she travels toward an old ...
Runtime: 9 min.
Directed by: Todd Cole
Stars: Elle Fanning
The Nutcracker (2010)
As: Mary
Set in 1920's Vienna, this is the tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Stars: Charlie Rowe | John Turturro | Elle Fanning | Frances de la Tour | Nathan Lane
Somewhere (2010)
As: Cleo
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Stephen Dorff | Erin Wasson | Elle Fanning | Chris Pontius | Alexandra Williams
Astro Boy (2009)
As: Grace (voice)
Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before returning to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who rejected him.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: David Bowers
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Donald Sutherland | Kristen Bell | Freddie Highmore | Bill Nighy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
As: Daisy Age 7
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Runtime: 166 min.
Directed by: David Fincher
Stars: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Elle Fanning | Tilda Swinton | Julia Ormond
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
As: Phoebe Lichten
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother looks to Phoebe herself for inspiration.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Daniel Barnz
Stars: Patricia Clarkson | Bill Pullman | Elle Fanning | Campbell Scott | Felicity Huffman
Reservation Road (2007)
As: Emma Learner
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Mark Ruffalo | Elle Fanning | Jennifer Connelly | Sean Curley
Day 73 with Sarah (2007)
As: Sarah
Day 73 With Sarah tells the story of a little girl, who with the help of her dead father hatches a plan to save herself and her mother from her abusive stepfather, but the plan has unexpected consequences.
Runtime: 16 min.
Directed by: Brent Hanley
Stars: Bob Stephenson | Gwen McGee | Elle Fanning | Amber Heard | Diora Baird
The Nines (2007)
As: Noelle
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: John August
Stars: Melissa McCarthy | Elle Fanning | Ryan Reynolds | David Denman | Hope Davis
Déjà Vu (2006)
As: Abbey
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Tony Scott
Stars: Jim Caviezel | Adam Goldberg | Val Kilmer | Denzel Washington | Paula Patton
Babel (2006)
As: Debbie Jones
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Gael García Bernal | Peter Wight | Harriet Walter
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
As: Penelope
Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Jeff Garlin
Stars: Sarah Silverman | Elle Fanning | Jeff Garlin | Bonnie Hunt | Jessy Schram
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
As: Sweety Pie Thomas
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Stars: AnnaSophia Robb | Cicely Tyson | Jeff Daniels | Dave Matthews | Eva Marie Saint
The Door in the Floor (2004)
As: Ruth Cole
Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger). ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Tod Williams
Stars: Elle Fanning | Jeff Bridges | Jon Foster | Larry Pine | Kim Basinger
Daddy Day Care (2003)
As: Jamie
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Steve Carr
Stars: Regina King | Eddie Murphy | Jeff Garlin | Steve Zahn | Kevin Nealon
I Am Sam (2001)
As: Lucy (2 Years Old)
Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita into taking his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Jessie Nelson
Stars: Richard Schiff | Dianne Wiest | Dakota Fanning | Michelle Pfeiffer | Sean Penn