Elle Fanning is and American actress and model who is perhaps best known for her work in the Sofia Coppola films Somewhere (2010) and The Beguiled (2017). Mary Elle Fanning was born on April 9, 1998, in Conyers, Georgia; her mother played tennis professionally and her father is an electronics salesman. Elle is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning; Dakota is well known for her role as the daughter in the film I Am Sam which stars Sean Penn in the role of a father with an intellectual disability. Elle Fanning started acting at the age of two, playing the younger version of her older sister Dakota’s roles in the mini-series Taken and the film I Am Sam. Fanning’s film credits include The Vanishing of Sydney Hall (2017), How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), Teen Spirit (2018), I Think We’re Alone Now (2018), and Galveston (2018).

Fanning starred alongside Angelina Jolie in the 2014 Disney film, Maleficent; she is reprising her role in the upcoming Maleficent II, the film is currently in post production and is scheduled for release in 2020. Ellie Fanning is single but has previously been linked romantically with Zalman Band, Dylan Beck, and Max Minghella.