Mary Elle Fanning was born on the 9th of April 1998 in Conyers, Georgia, USA. Her step into stardom was when she was just two years 11 months old when she played the younger version of her sister, Dakota Fanning, in the blockbuster movie I Am Sam, as Lucy, age 2 years. She then played younger Dakota again when Dakota was cast in Taken as Allie, age 3 years. But her first big independent movie without her sister was in 2003's Daddy Day Care as Jamie. She then had 2 guest appearances on TV, in Judging Amy and CSI: Miami.

Elle was now becoming more and more successful and famous, and she got another role, this time in 2004, in The Door in the Floor with Kim Basinger. Her career seems to be getting better and better, as she accomplished 2 movies this year, 2005, Because of Winn-Dixie and now she is in post-production of I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.



Younger sister of Dakota Fanning. Parents names are Joy and Steve. Learned the piano. Casting notes for the role of young Ruth Cole in The Door in the Floor (2004) originally called for identical twins, because producers believed the workload of the character to be too much for one little girl to take. To celebrate her seventh birthday, she went with her family to see Cirque du Soleil perform "Quidam" during its run in Melbourne, Australia. Dressed up as Marilyn Monroe for Halloween. Niece of Jill Arrington. She donated a signed picture to Rocky Stone to be given away as a prize in a Dakota Fanning contest to benefit less-fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign 2006. Was home-schooled by her grandmother, Mary Jane Arrington until 2007. First name is pronounced "El", as in the letter L, not "Ellie".