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Dakota Fanning’s Milestones
| At age five appeared in a TV commercial for Tide detergent | |
| Will play a young girl who witnesses her father's murder and who turns to religion in "Winged Creatures" (lensed 2007) | |
| 2000 | Portrayed the title character at age five in an episode of "Ally McBeal" (FOX) |
| 2000 | TV debut in an episode of NBC's "ER" playing an accident victim who has leukemia |
| 2001 | First major film role as the daughter of a mentally retarded man (Sean Penn) who fights for the custody in "I Am Sam"; shared role with sister Elle Fanning; was the youngest actress nominated for a SAG Award for performance |
| 2001 | Made feature film debut in "Tomcats" |
| 2002 | Cast by Steven Spielberg in the lead child role of Allison 'Allie' Clarke/Keys in the science fiction miniseries "Taken" (Sci-Fi Channel) |
| 2002 | Played the young version of Reese Witherspoon's character in "Sweet Home Alabama" |
| 2003 | Cast as Sally, opposite Mike Myers in the title role, in "The Cat in the Hat" |
| 2003 | Played the uptight child to Brittany Murphy's immature nanny in "Uptown Girls" |
| 2004 | Played a nine-year-old who wins over the heart of a retired assassin (Denzel Washington) hired to protect her from kidnappers in "Man on Fire" |
| 2005 | Co-starred with Kurt Russell in "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story" |
| 2005 | Played the daughter of Robert De Niro in the thriller "Hide and Seek" |
| 2005 | Re-teamed with Spielberg when she was cast opposite Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds" |
| 2006 | Starred in the live-action/computer-animated feature film "Charlotte's Web," based on the book by E.B. White |
| 2008 | Co-starred with Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah in the feature adaptation of "The Secret Life of Bees" |
| 2008 | Played a young girl coping with the effects of abuse by singing and dancing like Elvis in the controversial film "Hounddog" |
| 2009 | Co-starred in the supernatural thriller, "Push," along with Chris Evans and Camilla Belle |
| 2009 | Voiced the title character in the animated stop-motion horror fantasy film, "Coraline" |
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