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Dakota Johnson

Dakota Johnson

Birthday: 1989-10-04 | Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, USA

Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress, producer and model, best known for appearing in the Fifty Shades film series. She is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. She made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in the dark comedy film Crazy in Alabama (1999) with her mother. After graduating high school, she began auditioning for roles in Los Angeles and was cast in a minor part in The Social Network (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough with a supporting role in the action comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012), and subsequently appeared in the independent comedy Goats (2012) and the romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement (2012). She starred as Anastasia Steele in the erotic romantic drama film series Fifty Shades (2015–2018). She received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2016. Johnson appeared in films such as the crime drama Black Mass (2015), Luca Guadagnino's drama A Bigger Splash (2015), the romantic comedy How to Be Single (2016), the supernatural horror film Suspiria (2018), the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), the psychological horror film Wounds (2019), The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), and Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter (2021).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Am I OK?

as    Lucy

2022
Cha Cha Real Smooth

as    Domino

2021
Our Friend

as    Nicole Teague

2021
The Lost Daughter

as    Nina

2021
The Nowhere Inn

as    Self

2020
The High Note

as    Maggie Sherwoode

2019
Wounds

as    Carrie

2019
The Peanut Butter Falcon

as    Eleanor

2018
Fifty Shades Freed

as    Anastasia Steele

2018
Bad Times at the El Royale

as    Emily Summerspring

2018
Suspiria

as    Susie

2017
Fifty Shades Darker

as    Anastasia Steele

2016
How to Be Single

as    Alice Kepley

2016
A Bigger Splash

as    Penelope Lanier

2015
Fifty Shades of Grey

as    Anastasia Steele

2015
Chloe and Theo

as    Chloe

2015
Cymbeline

as    Imogen

2015
Black Mass

as    Lindsey Cyr

2015
In a Relationship

as    Willa

2014
Need for Speed

as    Anita Coleman

2014
Date and Switch

as    Em

2012
For Ellen

as    Cindy Taylor

2012
Ben and Kate

as    Kate Fox

2012
Goats

as    Minnie

2011
Beastly

as    Sloan Hagen