Dakota Fanning

We've all watched Dakota Fanning evolve from a gifted child star to a talented and well-respected actress. These are five of the roles that helped define her as an artist.

Young actress Dakota Fanning just started her freshman year at NYU. What majors should she consider?

Learn some cool facts about the talented teen star, Dakota Fanning.

The Runaways starring Twilight's Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning is a cinematic biography of the 1970s legendary all-girl rock band, The Runaways.

Their friendship has definitely blossomed over the past year, and rumor has it that Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are heading to this year's Coachella Music Festival.

It's no secret that they became close on the set of "The Runaways" but Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are officially BFFs.

With a controversial role in her new film The Runaways, Fanning seems to be more than ready to break out of her "America's Little Sweetheart" image.

"The Runaways" costars Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning promote their new movie at the South by Southwest Festival. Kristen denies any professional rivalry with Robert Pattinson.

Teen stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning continue their whirlwind promotional tour for the upcoming biopic of Joan Jett and her rock band in "The Runaways"

Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fannings attended the movie premiere of "The Runaways" held at Cinerama Dome Arclight Theaters in Hollywood with Joan Jett and Cherie Curie

The "Twilight" sequel "New Moon" looks as if it will be packed not only with the stars of the original "Twilight" movie but also a couple of high-profile stars as well. The producers are in direct negotiations with Dakota Fanning to star in "New Moon."

Dakota Fanning would join stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the Vampire Sequel.

Sitting down for a roundtable interview at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, Dakota Fanning survived a 7-hour traffic jam to talk about her latest movie "Push."

Dakota Fanning appears to be one of the few very grounded child stars in Hollywood, much like former child actor, Jodie Foster. Check out how Fanning appears to be following in the Award winning actress' footsteps!

It's official. Dakota Fanning is 13. Where has the time gone? It seems like only yesterday that she made her acting debut, in a laundry detergent commercial.

Each year they pick the cream of the crop, and Cosmopolitan has named their selections for the Fun Fearless Males & Females of 2012.

Actress Dakota Fanning and her younger sister Elle look stylish in fashion pictures for the December issue of W Magazine.

Celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Dakota Fanning and Samuel L. Jackson took to the streets to sign autographs and shop during Fashion's Night Out.

Making for quite the spectacular evening, the stars were out in full force for the red carpet premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" in Los Angeles, California on Thursday evening (June 24).

Winner of the May 2010 Associated Content Rising Star Award announced

Many are anxious to see who will be locking lips on stage this year for the Best Kiss category at the MTV Movie Awards.

Having both arrived to the set earlier in the day, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning got into full costume as they continued work on The Runaways on Tuesday (June 23).

The Secret Lives of Bees is a fantastic character movie. It's been a long while since I've seen a film that champions characters.

It is absurd for the majority of the public to question the ethics behind the filmmakers when they have not even seen the film themselves. How can you be so sure the young actress was violated when you weren't even present?