Elle Fanning

Elle Fanning began her acting career at the age of two, starring opposite Sean Penn in Jessie Nelson's I Am Sam as the younger version of the character played by her sister Dakota. Her first lead role was as the title character of Daniel Barnz's independent feature Phoebe in Wonderland, in which she starred opposite Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, and Bill Pullman.

Elle Fanning was seen alongside Angelina Jolie as Princess Aurora in the blockbuster fantasy Maleficent, directed by Robert Stromberg, Jake Paltrow's sci-fi thriller Young Ones, with Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jeff Preiss' Low Down, for which Ms. Fanning won the Best Actress award at the 2014 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; in the autobiographical story she portrays real-life writer and memoirist Amy Albany, opposite John Hawkes as Amy's father, celebrated jazz pianist Joe Albany.

Ms. Fanning's other films include Alejandro González Iñárritu's Academy Award-nominated Babel, opposite Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza; Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo; J. J. Abrams' Super 8; Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt; and David Fincher's multi-Oscar-winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, portraying the younger incarnation of Cate Blanchett's character, opposite Brad Pitt.

She received British Independent Film Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award nominations for her performance in Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa, with Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks, Alessandro Nivola, and Annette Bening.

The Boxtrolls marked her fourth film for Focus Features, following Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor, opposite Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, and Jon Foster; Terry George's Reservation Road, with Joaquin Phoenix and Jennifer Connelly; and Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, in which she starred alongside Stephen Dorff and which won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2010 Venice International Film Festival.

In addition to her film work, Ms. Fanning is an ambassador for the United Nations' Ending Hunger campaign.

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