Dakota Fanning can most recently be seen in last year’s film Once Upon A Time in Hollywood directed by Quentin Tarantino. Fanning stars as Manson family disciple “Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme.“ She will next star in the adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s WWII novel, The Nightingale, for Tristar. It is slated for release December 2021.

In 2018, she premiered her directorial debut Hello Apartment, a short film for Miu Miu Women’s Tales.

Fanning's extensive filmography includes I Am Sam, Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, Uptown Girls, Dreamer, Charlotte's Web, The Secret Life of Bees, The Last of Robin Hood, Coraline, The Twilight Saga, Brimstone, Night Moves, and Please Stand By. She is the youngest actor to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award® and has also been nominated for numerous Critics' Choice Awards.

Fanning is an Artist Ambassador for Save the Children.