Biography
Mary Elle Fanning is an American actress born on 9 April 1998 in Conyers, Georgia. She made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in I Am Sam (2001) and appeared in several other films as a child, including Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Super 8 (2011).
Fanning played Princess Aurora in Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). She starred as Catherine the Great in the Hulu series The Great (2020–2023). She portrayed Sylvie Russo in A Complete Unknown (2024), Rachel Kemp in Sentimental Value (2025) and Thia/Tessa in Predator: Badlands (2025). She appears as Margo in the series Margo's Got Money Troubles (2026) and made her Broadway debut in Appropriate (2023).
