<P> She took on more mature roles, playing Lewellen in Hounddog (2007), Lily in The Secret Life of Bees (2008) the eponymous character in Coraline (2009), Cherie Currie in The Runaways (2010) and Jane Volturi in The Twilight Saga (2009--12). Her recent films include the teen drama Now Is Good (2012), the drama Night Moves (2013), the comedy - drama Very Good Girls (2013), the biography Effie Gray (2014), the western thriller Brimstone (2016), and the upcoming heist comedy Ocean's 8 (2018). She currently stars in the period drama TV series The Alienist (2018--present). </P> <P> Fanning made her modelling debut in 2009 when she featured on the cover of fashion magazines Elle, Vanity Fair, and Cosmopolitan, among others . She also appeared in the fashion week in New York in 2014 and at the opening ceremony of Fashion Week New York S / S 2015 . </P> <P> Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia . She attended Montessori School of Covington . Her mother, Heather Joy (née Arrington), played tennis professionally, and her father, Steven J. Fanning, played minor league baseball and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles, California . Her maternal grandfather is former American football player Rick Arrington, and her aunt is former ESPN reporter Jill Arrington . Dakota is the older sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress . They were brought up Southern Baptist . </P> <P> When Fanning was a small child, she was an actress at the Towne Lake Arts Center in Woodstock, Georgia, starring in small plays . In 1999, at the age of five, she began her professional acting career, appearing in a Tide television commercial . Her first significant acting job was a guest role in the NBC prime - time drama ER, which remains one of her favorite roles: </P>

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