Elle Fanning

The younger sister &#8212 by four years &#8212 of actress Dakota Fanning (The Cat in the Hat, War of the Worlds), angel-faced Elle Fanning broke into show business as a child star about three years after her ascendant sibling. Born in 1998, Elle started out as an actress with traditionally child-oriented roles in family-friendly material; she provided a voice for the American version of Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, then appeared in such pictures as the 2003 Daddy Day Care (as one of Eddie Murphy's young charges) and the 2005 Because of Winn-Dixie before making the broad leap to adult-oriented content. Subsequent projects included Babel (2006) and The Nines (2007). Fanning first received premier billing in not a feature but a short &#8212 Brent Hanley's Day 73 with Sarah (2007) &#8212 as a little girl who teams up with the ghost of her dead father to liberate her beleaguered mom from an abusive relationship. ~ Rovi