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DAKOTA AT TAKEN
from unknown, 2002
DAKOTA FANNING as Allie Keys
Taken is told through the voice of Dakota Fanning in the role of Allie Keys, a young girl whose journey is at the heart of this story of three families over three generations of more than 50 years of American history.
A powerful force at eight years of age, Fanning is turning heads after a scene-stealingperformance in I Am Sam, which earned her a SAG best-supporting nomination -- making her the youngest actor to be nominated for this award.
Fanning began her career at the age of five when she was picked from thousands of hopefuls for a national Tide commercial. She went on to land a co-starring role on television's ER and to appear on such prime-time shows as Ally McBeal,Strong Medicine,C.S.I.,The Practice,Malcolm in the Middle and Spin City. She most recentlyworked on writer/producer Edward Burns' pilot The Fighting Fitzgeralds for NBC.
Fanning's film roles include Tomcats, starring Jerry O'Connell, Shannon Elizabeth and Jake Busey; and the AFI film Father X-Mas. Immediately after completing I Am Sam, Fanning went on to co-star in the Mandolin Entertainment/Propaganda thriller Trapped, co-starring Charlize Theron and Courtney Love.
Recently, Hollywood has taken notice of the busy young ingenue; Fanning soon will star opposite Mike Myers in the upcoming Dr. Seuss film adaptation The Cat in the Hat, and she already has begun shooting Molly Gunn in New York, starring as a precocious little girl who is "eight going on forty."

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