Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress. As a child, she made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001). She appeared in several other films as a child actress, including Daddy Day Care (2003), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008), and the miniseries The Lost Room (2006). She then had leading roles in Sofia Coppola's drama Somewhere (2010) and J. J. Abrams' science fiction film Super 8 (2011).
Fanning played Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) while working in independent films such as Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa (2012), Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), and Coppola's The Beguiled (2017). From 2020 to 2023, she starred as Catherine the Great in the Hulu period satire series The Great, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She has since portrayed Michelle Carter in the Hulu limited series The Girl from Plainville (2022), made her Broadway debut in the play Appropriate (2023), and played a character based on Suze Rotolo in the biographical drama A Complete Unknown (2024).
as Shirley Mason
as Margaret Wise Brown
as Lenny(1 ep)
as Isabelle
as Effie Trinket
as Martha
as Margo(8 eps)
as Thia / Tessa
as Rachel Kemp
as Sylvie Russo
as Michelle Carter(8 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Catherine II of Russia(30 eps)
as Self
as Molly
as Violet
as Self
as Princess Aurora
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Ashleigh Enright
as Self
as Violet Valenski
as Rocky
as Grace
as Melody
as Madison(1 ep)
as Mary Shelley
as Alicia
as Self
as Julie
as Loretta Figgis
as Felicie (voice)
as Ray
as Jesse
as Niki Trumbo
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)
as Mary Holm
as Aurora
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Self(3 eps)
as Self - Guest(3 eps)
as Amy Albany
as Girl
as Self
as Mia
as Sara (Leaning Towards Solace)
as Sara
as The Rainmaker
as Ginger
as Lily Miska
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as V.
as Alice Dainard
as Self
as Mary
as Self(1 ep)
as Cleo
as Grace (voice)
as Daisy Age 7
as Phoebe Lichten
as Emma Learner
as Sarah
as Noelle
as Anna Miller(3 eps)
as Abbey
as Debbie Jones
as Penelope
as Tracy Belle(2 eps)
as Sarah Williams / Logan's Friend #2 / Nerd's Wife (voice)(1 ep)
as Sweety Pie Thomas
as Rebecca Bullard
as Stella Dalton(1 ep)
as Jenny Como(1 ep)
as Ruth Cole
as Self(1 ep)
as Jamie
as Self - Guest(4 eps)
as Self(3 eps)
as Allie at 3 yrs(1 ep)
as Molly Walker(1 ep)
as Lucy (2 Years Old)
as Eden(1 ep)
as Rochelle Cobbs(1 ep)
as Self / Presenter(1 ep)
as Self - Guest(2 eps)
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)