| Elle Fanning | ||
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| Character Eden | ||
| Date of birth April 9, 1998 | ||
| Place of birth Conyers, Georgia, U.S. | ||
| IMDb profile |
Mary Elle Fanning is an actress who guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Cage" as Eden.
Fanning has starred in many movies and TV series, such as Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Daddy Day Care, We Bought a Zoo (with Matt Damon), and 20th Century Women. She is also the younger sister of Dakota Fanning, who is also an actress, she made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001) and again as Allie Keys in the 2002 Steven Spielberg science fiction mini-series Taken (with Emily Bergl, Adam Kaufman, Joel Gretsch, Anton Yelchin, Catherine Dent, Julie Benz, Tina Holmes, Ryan Hurst, James McDaniel). As a child actress, she appeared in several films, including Babel (2006), Phoebe in Wonderland (2008), and Somewhere (2010). Her breakthrough came in 2011 with her starring role in J.J. Abrams' science-fiction film Super 8, for which she received critical praise and earned a Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Film Festival.
Fanning subsequently had leading roles in the drama film Ginger & Rosa (2012), and as Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). She also began working in independent cinema, collaborating with auteurs in lead and supporting roles in films such as Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled (2017), John Cameron Mitchell's How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York (2019), and Sally Potter's The Roads Not Taken (2020). In 2020, she began portraying Catherine the Great, Empress of All Russia in the Hulu series The Great, for which she received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She went on to star in the miniseries The Girl from Plainville (with Chloë Sevigny, Cara Buono, Colton Ryan, and Norbert Leo Butz)