By Cordillia Marvine
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress. She made her film debut as a child 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).
Fanning was born on April 9, 1998, in Conyers, Georgia, to Heather Joy (née Arrington) and Steven J. Fanning, who played for St. Louis Cardinals-affiliated minor league baseball teams.
Her maternal grandfather was American football player Rick Arrington, and her aunt is ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Counted among the Arrington family’s most notable ancestors is the gentleman farmer William Farrar. Fanning is actress Dakota Fanning’s younger sister. She and her sister use their middle names as given names per family tradition. They were brought up in the Southern Baptist denomination.
Fanning is a 2016 graduate of Campbell Hall School.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Pope Benedict VIII –
- Frank Lloyd Wright (architect) –
- Harry Babbitt (sang with the Kay Kyser big band on such hits as The White Cliffs of Dover” and voiced the laugh of Woody Woodpecker”) –
Born
- Theobald Boehm (inventor and musician, who perfected the modern flute) –
- Eadweard Muybridge (photographer, motion picture pioneer) –
- Hugh Hefner (editor & publisher) –
- Carl Perkins (musician) –
- Dennis Quaid (actor) –
- Seve Ballesteros (golfer) –
- Cynthia Nixon (actress) –
- Keshia Knight Pulliam (actress) –
- Jesse McCartney (actor & singer) –
- Kristen Stewart (actress) –
- Elle Fanning (actress) –
Events
- Great Britain’s King Henry I was reprimanded in church for his long hair –
- Explorer La Salle claimed the Mississippi basin for France, calling it Louisiana –
- First tax-supported U.S. public library founded, Peterborough, New Hampshire –
- Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia –
- Jumbo the circus elephant arrived in the U.S. –
- Aerial Ferry Bridge opened in Duluth, Minnesota –
- The Boston Red Sox played Harvard University in the first official baseball game at Fenway Park. (The Sox won 2-0.) –
- Battle of Vimy Ridge (WWI) began in France –
- The Boston Celtics became the first NBA team to sweep an NBA championship series –
- NASA introduced first seven astronauts to press –
- Golfer Arnold Palmer won his third Masters Tournament –
- Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen –
- First baseball game in indoor stadium, Houston, Texas –
- Nature magazine published the longest known scientific name, which was about 207,000 letters –
- Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles –
- Rare Bactrian camel born at Budapest Zoo. –
Weather
- Dust storm in Colorado and Wyoming –
- F5 tornado hit Glazier and Higgins, Texas, and Woodward, Oklahoma –
- Texas experienced a bad dust storm –
- Sixteen inches of snow fell in Eastport, Maine –
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