Mary Elle Fanning is an American actress, who is best known for her roles as Sweetie Pie Thomas in the 2005 adaptation of Because of Winn-Dixie, Alice Dainard in the sci-fi thriller film Super 8, and Lily Miska in the Fox comedy-drama film We Bought a Zoo (both released in 2011). She is the younger sister of Dakota Fanning.
For Disney, she voiced Mei Kusakabe in the English dub of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro, and played Princess Aurora in the 2014 live-action film Maleficent and its 2019 sequel. She also portrayed Abbey in the 2006 Touchstone Pictures film Déjà Vu, Tracy Belle in the CBS/ABC TV show Criminal Minds, Kiki George in Dirty Sexy Money, Sylvie Russo in the 2024 Searchlight Pictures film A Complete Unknown, and Thia in the 2025 20th Century Studios film Predator: Badlands.
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- She auditioned for the role of the young Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse before Sophie Turner was cast.
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Elle Fanning on Wikipedia
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