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 Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and fashion model. She was born in Austin, Texas, and is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her maternal grandmother is actress Tippi Hedren.In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama (1999), where she and her half-sister, Stella Banderas, played the daughters to their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith. The film was directed by her stepfather, Antonio Banderas, but it wasn't a hit. Dakota resumed her schooling and waited several years before she decided to become a professional actress and model. In 2006, she was voted Miss Golden Globe, a launching pad bestowed on off-spring of famous parents. She served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes' history, since her mother was Miss Golden Globe in 1975. She also signed with IMG Models. In 2009, she modeled for MANGO brand's jeans line. Dakota traveled to Sydney, Australia, where she shot the "Rising Star" campaign for fashion label, "Wish". Once she graduated from high school, she signed with the William Morris Agency and started her acting career. She had her first box office hit in 2010 with David Fincher's film, The Social Network (2010), in which she had a scene with Justin Timberlake. The film received eight Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. She also appeared in three additional films: Beastly (2011), alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen; Ezna Sands' film, Chloe and Theo (2015); and So Yong Kim's film, For Ellen (2012); She had roles in several 2012 films: Christopher Neil's film, Goats (2012), with David Duchovny; Nicholas Stoller's film, The Five-Year Engagement (2012), for producer Judd Apatow, and the hit feature film version of the 1987 television show, 21 Jump Street (1987) that made Johnny Depp a star. She also won the female lead in Chris Nelson's, film Date and Switch (2014), written by Alan Yang. Her first television show, Ben and Kate (2012), where she played "Kate", aired on Fox during the Fall 2012 season. It was canceled in 2013, and she quickly resumed her feature film career with three high-profile films: Need for Speed (2014), Cymbeline (2014), the modern-day adaptation of the William Shakespeare play, "Cymbeline", and the starring role of "Anastasia Steele" in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, "Fifty Shades of Grey". She beat out many young actresses for the coveted role of Anastasia, and the film became a worldwide hit, making her a star. She won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress for "Fifty Shades of Grey". She has continued to seek challenging roles, such as of a young mother who loses her son in Black Mass (2015) opposite her "21 Jump Street" castmate Johnny Depp, and of a temptress in A Bigger Splash (2015). She has balanced her dramatic career by doing comedies as well, such as How to Be Single (2016).
Bio:
Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and fashion model. She was born in Austin, Texas, and is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her maternal grandmother is actress Tippi Hedren.In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama (1999), where she and her half-sister, Stella Banderas, played the daughters to their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith. The film was directed by her stepfather, Antonio Banderas, but it wasn't a hit. Dakota resumed her schooling and waited several years before she decided to become a professional actress and model. In 2006, she was voted Miss Golden Globe, a launching pad bestowed on off-spring of famous parents. She served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes' history, since her mother was Miss Golden Globe in 1975. She also signed with IMG Models. In 2009, she modeled for MANGO brand's jeans line. Dakota traveled to Sydney, Australia, where she shot the "Rising Star" campaign for fashion label, "Wish". Once she graduated from high school, she signed with the William Morris Agency and started her acting career. She had her first box office hit in 2010 with David Fincher's film, The Social Network (2010), in which she had a scene with Justin Timberlake. The film received eight Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. She also appeared in three additional films: Beastly (2011), alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen; Ezna Sands' film, Chloe and Theo (2015); and So Yong Kim's film, For Ellen (2012); She had roles in several 2012 films: Christopher Neil's film, Goats (2012), with David Duchovny; Nicholas Stoller's film, The Five-Year Engagement (2012), for producer Judd Apatow, and the hit feature film version of the 1987 television show, 21 Jump Street (1987) that made Johnny Depp a star. She also won the female lead in Chris Nelson's, film Date and Switch (2014), written by Alan Yang. Her first television show, Ben and Kate (2012), where she played "Kate", aired on Fox during the Fall 2012 season. It was canceled in 2013, and she quickly resumed her feature film career with three high-profile films: Need for Speed (2014), Cymbeline (2014), the modern-day adaptation of the William Shakespeare play, "Cymbeline", and the starring role of "Anastasia Steele" in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, "Fifty Shades of Grey". She beat out many young actresses for the coveted role of Anastasia, and the film became a worldwide hit, making her a star. She won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress for "Fifty Shades of Grey". She has continued to seek challenging roles, such as of a young mother who loses her son in Black Mass (2015) opposite her "21 Jump Street" castmate Johnny Depp, and of a temptress in A Bigger Splash (2015). She has balanced her dramatic career by doing comedies as well, such as How to Be Single (2016).
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As a child, she acted with her mother Melanie Griffith and her half-sister Stella Banderas in Crazy in Alabama (1999), but her family wouldn't let her act again until several years later, after she graduated from high school.Daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.Ex-stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas.Landed the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the film adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, by reading a long, sexually-explicit monologue from the Ingmar Bergman film Persona (1966). It was an unconventional choice for an audition piece, but Johnson felt that the filmmakers were looking for a leading lady who would address the sexy material in a mature, direct manner. When she advanced to screen testing she re-enacted the first and last chapters of the book with co-star Jamie Dornan.Like her grandmother Tippi Hedren, she is an animal rights activist; she saved 12 horses from being killed in 2014 by paying for them.In a televised interview, her ex-stepfather Antonio Banderas referred to Don Johnson as Dakota's "biological father"--which implies that Johnson had comparatively little to do with raising her. Ironically, Dakota allegedly refused to even speak to Banderas following his split from her mother, Melanie Griffith. However, when Banderas had a heart attack in 2017, Dakota reportedly "freaked out" and quickly reconciled with him. In 2019 she gave a moving tribute to him at the Hollywood Film Awards, while presenting him with a Hollywood Actor Award. She calls him "Papi".She did not use a body double for any scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) except for one BDSM scene. A double was used for a scene involving her character Anastasia being whipped with a belt. Johnson did not want to participate in the scene to avoid personal injury and to avoid her body being marked in any way.She reportedly beat out Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen, Shailene Woodley, Lucy Hale, Chloe Bridges, Felicity Jones, Kristen Stewart, and her Need for Speed (2014) co-star Imogen Poots to land the role of Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).She denied that she was in a 30-day rehab program at the Visions Teen Treatment Center in Malibu, CA, for drug and alcohol addiction in September 2007. She said that the press misinterpreted the fact that she was in therapy as a teenager because of some issues with her parents, who have both battled substance abuse.Her favorite book is the 1955 novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. Her real-life mother Melanie Griffith played Lolita's mother in Lolita (1997).She is the third generation to be involved with the Golden Globes, as she was Miss Golden Globe in 2006, is the daughter of Don Johnson (Golden Globe winner for Miami Vice (1984)) and Melanie Griffith (Golden Globe winner for Working Girl (1988)), and granddaughter of Tippi Hedren (Golden Globe winner for Most Promising Newcomer, 1964).She had to apply body make-up to cover her tattoos for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). Her tattoos are visible in every other project and photo shoot she has done.She took a flogger and several pairs of underwear from the set of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She said the underwear was too comfortable to leave behind.She strongly believes in protecting people from sexual harassment. Her grandmother Tippi Hedren has stated that filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock harassed her when she was under contract with him, and she had to dissolve the contract to get away from him, effectively destroying her career. Dakota is one of the original signers of the Time's Up movement and she donated money to the legal defense fund that was started in 2017 to help survivors of sexual assault, harassment and inequality in the workplace. She wore the Time's Up pin to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in January 2018. She showed up at the 2018 Global Citizen Festival and told women and girls to call her and share their stories about how they have suffered by being second-class citizens. because she will listen and amplify their voices.Two maternal half-siblings: Alexander Bauer (son of Steven Bauer and Melanie Griffith) and Stella Banderas (daughter of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith).She auditioned in front of Judd Apatow for a role in HBO's Girls (2012) but was not selected. He later recommended her for a small role as a neurotic, sex-obsessed girlfriend named Audrey in The Five-Year Engagement (2012), which he produced; her performance as Audrey caught the attention of Jake Kasdan, who cast her as a last-minute replacement in Ben and Kate (2012).) She became friends with Apatow's wife Leslie Mann when they worked together in How to Be Single (2016). In fact, it was Mann who presented her with both the Calvin Klein Spotlight Award in 2015 and the People's Choice Award in 2016.Has said her biggest sacrifice was accepting the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) because the entire world can see her completely naked.Has stated that she has never casually dated men, and that she has always had long-term relationships with her boyfriends.She did not tell anyone about being involved in the auditioning process for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She has said that if the project fell through or she wasn't selected, she didn't want to have to explain herself or the process repeatedly. After she was cast, she couldn't tell anyone for weeks as the studio prepared an official casting announcement.In 2016 she said that she regretted getting most of her tattoos because it takes a long time to cover them up for her movie roles. The only tattoo that she doesn't regret is a quote from Aldous Huxley's "Island" that reads, "Lightly my darling" inked in white, which matches the one her half-sister Stella Banderas has, too.On the audio commentary for the DVD release of The Social Network (2010), director David Fincher said that Dakota was "wonderful" in a "pretty thankless role," since she has only one scene as Justin Timberlake's one-night stand.Whenever she is truly laughing she cries. She has stated that it has become a nuisance on film sets because she has to constantly have her make-up touched up in between takes.She affectionately calls her grandmother Tippi Hedren, "Mormor" (a Swedish word for grandmother). Tippi's father was of Swedish descent. Dakota's other ancestry is English, Welsh, German, Norwegian, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Irish, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French Huguenot.She started an exercise routine to prepare for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), but not just because she wanted to look good on screen. She wanted Anastasia to have the appearance of an average, active college student.She deleted her private social media Instagram account and stopped posting pictures on her public account due to negative comments from internet trolls.She drives a 1995 F-150 her grandfather gave her that he used on his ranch in Missouri.Jimmy Kimmel is her next-door neighbor in Los Angeles.After being selected for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), she screen-tested with over 20 actors before the studio decided on who to cast as Christian Grey.Despite the fact that there have been continuous rumors stating she did not get along with her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) co-star Jamie Dornan and vice- versa, the two are actually on good terms. She thanked him in her acceptance speech when she won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress by stating that she "couldn't have done it without you".Her favorite song, on the Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) soundtrack, is "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones.She appeared in 21 Jump Street (2012), the film version of the hit TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). Her half-aunt, Tracy Griffith, had appeared as a guest star on the original series in the 1989 episode Eternal Flame (1989).Her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) director Sam Taylor-Johnson recommended her to director Luca Guadagnino, who cast her in A Bigger Splash (2015), his remake of La Piscine (1969) in the role originated by Jane Birkin. She was nervous replacing Margot Robbie, just days before filming, but co-star Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton calmed her down and affectionately nicknamed her "Cousin Duckie". Guadagnino once again cast both Dakota and Tilda in the remake of Suspiria (1977), also titled Suspiria (2018).Once lived with Noah Gersh and later with Jordan Masterson.She self-identifies ambitious. With unwavering determination, she stuck to "The Fifty Shades" trilogy even as her original leading man, Charlie Hunnam, quit before filming to be replaced by Jamie Dornan in the first film, and even when director Sam Taylor-Johnson and writer Kelly Marcel declined to work on the sequels. Her ambition extended to doing nude scenes with no hesitation with Dornan, whom she had never met before filming.She replaced Abby Elliott as a young, single mother named Kate on the short-lived Fox sitcom, Ben and Kate (2012). The show lasted only 16 episodes before being canceled. The final three episodes were never aired in the US.The one special project that's been passed down three generations in her family is J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose". Her grandmother Tippi Hedren was originally set to star in the film adaptation for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1964, and she was heartbroken that the film was never made because she and Hitchcock had a falling out. Tippi gave the play to her daughter Melanie Griffith when she was a child, who also loved it. When Melanie grew up, she also wanted to play the title character with her then-husband Antonio Banderas as director, but after their production company Greenmoon Productions released flop movies like Crazy in Alabama (1999) and The Body (2001), financing collapsed for the project. As of 2018, Dakota is the right age to play Mary Rose, but the studios have long ago decided that the project wasn't commercial, so a film with her is also unlikely.Director Sean Baker considered casting her and her real-life grandmother Tippi Hedren together in his film Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.Has collaborated with Nicholas Braun thrice: they appeared together in Date and Switch (2014), in the short film In a Relationship (2015), and in How to Be Single (2016). They played a struggling young couple all three times.She dropped out of Under the Silver Lake (2018) because of scheduling conflicts, and her role went to Riley Keough. She had been a bridesmaid at Keough's wedding to Ben Smith-Petersen in 2015.She took down her Facebook profile because she didn't like being on it, even though she acted in the hit film The Social Network (2010) which is about the origins of Facebook.Four paternal half-siblings: Jesse Johnson (son of Don Johnson and Patti D'Arbanville), Grace Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger), Jasper Johnson and Deacon Johnson (sons of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger).Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by "Nylon" Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue in May 2010.She is not related to her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) director Sam Taylor-Johnson, even though they share the same last name. Nevertheless, the two women share a strong bond. The director had first seen Dakota in a eye-catching cameo in The Social Network (2010) and said she wanted to know more about her, and then cast her in her star-making turn. Even though, she declined to direct the sequels, she has continued to stay in touch with Dakota and has recommended her to other directors.Granddaughter of Peter Griffith.Has been in an off-and-on relationship with Welsh model Matthew Hitt since 2014.Prior to landing the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), her most recognized roles included being Sean Parker's (Justin Timberlake) one-night stand in The Social Network (2010), a cop posing as a high school student in 21 Jump Street (2012) and a neurotic ex-girlfriend in The Five-Year Engagement (2012). All three roles are considered by many to be scene stealing, but they totaled less screen time than the average music video.Three things she always carries in her purse: keys, Chap-Stick and candy.Was a presenter at the 87th annual Academy Awards on 2/22/2015. She attended the ceremony with her mother, Melanie Griffith.She has never been public about her political views. However, at the 2/26/2017Academy Awards ceremony, she and Academy Award winner Emma Stone wore pins showing their support for Planned Parenthood (which gives medical services to women) in protest of attempts by President Donald Trump and other Republicans who vowed to defund Planned Parenthood. In 2018 she said that she has never met Trump but is wary of his policies and his overzealous followers.Attended the New Roads School in Santa Monica, CA, for three years. |
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Dakota Johnson |
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Actress,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actress,Producer,Director |
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Actress,Producer,Director |
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30 |
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| Height: |
5' 7?' (1.71 m) |
| Biography: |
Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and fashion model. She was born in Austin, Texas, and is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her maternal grandmother is actress Tippi Hedren.In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in |
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As a child, she acted with her mother Melanie Griffith and her half-sister Stella Banderas in Crazy in Alabama (1999), but her family wouldn't let her act again until several years later, after she graduated from high school.Daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.Ex-stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas.Landed the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the film adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, by reading a long, sexually-explicit monologue from the Ingmar Bergman film Persona (1966). It was an unconventional choice for an audition piece, but Johnson felt that the filmmakers were looking for a leading lady who would address the sexy material in a mature, direct manner. When she advanced to screen testing she re-enacted the first and last chapters of the book with co-star Jamie Dornan.Like her grandmother Tippi Hedren, she is an animal rights activist; she saved 12 horses from being killed in 2014 by paying for them.In a televised interview, her ex-stepfather Antonio Banderas referred to Don Johnson as Dakota's "biological father"--which implies that Johnson had comparatively little to do with raising her. Ironically, Dakota allegedly refused to even speak to Banderas following his split from her mother, Melanie Griffith. However, when Banderas had a heart attack in 2017, Dakota reportedly "freaked out" and quickly reconciled with him. In 2019 she gave a moving tribute to him at the Hollywood Film Awards, while presenting him with a Hollywood Actor Award. She calls him "Papi".She did not use a body double for any scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) except for one BDSM scene. A double was used for a scene involving her character Anastasia being whipped with a belt. Johnson did not want to participate in the scene to avoid personal injury and to avoid her body being marked in any way.She reportedly beat out Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen, Shailene Woodley, Lucy Hale, Chloe Bridges, Felicity Jones, Kristen Stewart, and her Need for Speed (2014) co-star Imogen Poots to land the role of Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).She denied that she was in a 30-day rehab program at the Visions Teen Treatment Center in Malibu, CA, for drug and alcohol addiction in September 2007. She said that the press misinterpreted the fact that she was in therapy as a teenager because of some issues with her parents, who have both battled substance abuse.Her favorite book is the 1955 novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. Her real-life mother Melanie Griffith played Lolita's mother in Lolita (1997).She is the third generation to be involved with the Golden Globes, as she was Miss Golden Globe in 2006, is the daughter of Don Johnson (Golden Globe winner for Miami Vice (1984)) and Melanie Griffith (Golden Globe winner for Working Girl (1988)), and granddaughter of Tippi Hedren (Golden Globe winner for Most Promising Newcomer, 1964).She had to apply body make-up to cover her tattoos for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). Her tattoos are visible in every other project and photo shoot she has done.She took a flogger and several pairs of underwear from the set of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She said the underwear was too comfortable to leave behind.She strongly believes in protecting people from sexual harassment. Her grandmother Tippi Hedren has stated that filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock harassed her when she was under contract with him, and she had to dissolve the contract to get away from him, effectively destroying her career. Dakota is one of the original signers of the Time's Up movement and she donated money to the legal defense fund that was started in 2017 to help survivors of sexual assault, harassment and inequality in the workplace. She wore the Time's Up pin to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in January 2018. She showed up at the 2018 Global Citizen Festival and told women and girls to call her and share their stories about how they have suffered by being second-class citizens. because she will listen and amplify their voices.Two maternal half-siblings: Alexander Bauer (son of Steven Bauer and Melanie Griffith) and Stella Banderas (daughter of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith).She auditioned in front of Judd Apatow for a role in HBO's Girls (2012) but was not selected. He later recommended her for a small role as a neurotic, sex-obsessed girlfriend named Audrey in The Five-Year Engagement (2012), which he produced; her performance as Audrey caught the attention of Jake Kasdan, who cast her as a last-minute replacement in Ben and Kate (2012).) She became friends with Apatow's wife Leslie Mann when they worked together in How to Be Single (2016). In fact, it was Mann who presented her with both the Calvin Klein Spotlight Award in 2015 and the People's Choice Award in 2016.Has said her biggest sacrifice was accepting the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) because the entire world can see her completely naked.Has stated that she has never casually dated men, and that she has always had long-term relationships with her boyfriends.She did not tell anyone about being involved in the auditioning process for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She has said that if the project fell through or she wasn't selected, she didn't want to have to explain herself or the process repeatedly. After she was cast, she couldn't tell anyone for weeks as the studio prepared an official casting announcement.In 2016 she said that she regretted getting most of her tattoos because it takes a long time to cover them up for her movie roles. The only tattoo that she doesn't regret is a quote from Aldous Huxley's "Island" that reads, "Lightly my darling" inked in white, which matches the one her half-sister Stella Banderas has, too.On the audio commentary for the DVD release of The Social Network (2010), director David Fincher said that Dakota was "wonderful" in a "pretty thankless role," since she has only one scene as Justin Timberlake's one-night stand.Whenever she is truly laughing she cries. She has stated that it has become a nuisance on film sets because she has to constantly have her make-up touched up in between takes.She affectionately calls her grandmother Tippi Hedren, "Mormor" (a Swedish word for grandmother). Tippi's father was of Swedish descent. Dakota's other ancestry is English, Welsh, German, Norwegian, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Irish, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French Huguenot.She started an exercise routine to prepare for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), but not just because she wanted to look good on screen. She wanted Anastasia to have the appearance of an average, active college student.She deleted her private social media Instagram account and stopped posting pictures on her public account due to negative comments from internet trolls.She drives a 1995 F-150 her grandfather gave her that he used on his ranch in Missouri.Jimmy Kimmel is her next-door neighbor in Los Angeles.After being selected for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), she screen-tested with over 20 actors before the studio decided on who to cast as Christian Grey.Despite the fact that there have been continuous rumors stating she did not get along with her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) co-star Jamie Dornan and vice- versa, the two are actually on good terms. She thanked him in her acceptance speech when she won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress by stating that she "couldn't have done it without you".Her favorite song, on the Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) soundtrack, is "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones.She appeared in 21 Jump Street (2012), the film version of the hit TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). Her half-aunt, Tracy Griffith, had appeared as a guest star on the original series in the 1989 episode Eternal Flame (1989).Her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) director Sam Taylor-Johnson recommended her to director Luca Guadagnino, who cast her in A Bigger Splash (2015), his remake of La Piscine (1969) in the role originated by Jane Birkin. She was nervous replacing Margot Robbie, just days before filming, but co-star Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton calmed her down and affectionately nicknamed her "Cousin Duckie". Guadagnino once again cast both Dakota and Tilda in the remake of Suspiria (1977), also titled Suspiria (2018).Once lived with Noah Gersh and later with Jordan Masterson.She self-identifies ambitious. With unwavering determination, she stuck to "The Fifty Shades" trilogy even as her original leading man, Charlie Hunnam, quit before filming to be replaced by Jamie Dornan in the first film, and even when director Sam Taylor-Johnson and writer Kelly Marcel declined to work on the sequels. Her ambition extended to doing nude scenes with no hesitation with Dornan, whom she had never met before filming.She replaced Abby Elliott as a young, single mother named Kate on the short-lived Fox sitcom, Ben and Kate (2012). The show lasted only 16 episodes before being canceled. The final three episodes were never aired in the US.The one special project that's been passed down three generations in her family is J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose". Her grandmother Tippi Hedren was originally set to star in the film adaptation for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1964, and she was heartbroken that the film was never made because she and Hitchcock had a falling out. Tippi gave the play to her daughter Melanie Griffith when she was a child, who also loved it. When Melanie grew up, she also wanted to play the title character with her then-husband Antonio Banderas as director, but after their production company Greenmoon Productions released flop movies like Crazy in Alabama (1999) and The Body (2001), financing collapsed for the project. As of 2018, Dakota is the right age to play Mary Rose, but the studios have long ago decided that the project wasn't commercial, so a film with her is also unlikely.Director Sean Baker considered casting her and her real-life grandmother Tippi Hedren together in his film Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.Has collaborated with Nicholas Braun thrice: they appeared together in Date and Switch (2014), in the short film In a Relationship (2015), and in How to Be Single (2016). They played a struggling young couple all three times.She dropped out of Under the Silver Lake (2018) because of scheduling conflicts, and her role went to Riley Keough. She had been a bridesmaid at Keough's wedding to Ben Smith-Petersen in 2015.She took down her Facebook profile because she didn't like being on it, even though she acted in the hit film The Social Network (2010) which is about the origins of Facebook.Four paternal half-siblings: Jesse Johnson (son of Don Johnson and Patti D'Arbanville), Grace Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger), Jasper Johnson and Deacon Johnson (sons of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger).Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by "Nylon" Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue in May 2010.She is not related to her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) director Sam Taylor-Johnson, even though they share the same last name. Nevertheless, the two women share a strong bond. The director had first seen Dakota in a eye-catching cameo in The Social Network (2010) and said she wanted to know more about her, and then cast her in her star-making turn. Even though, she declined to direct the sequels, she has continued to stay in touch with Dakota and has recommended her to other directors.Granddaughter of Peter Griffith.Has been in an off-and-on relationship with Welsh model Matthew Hitt since 2014.Prior to landing the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), her most recognized roles included being Sean Parker's (Justin Timberlake) one-night stand in The Social Network (2010), a cop posing as a high school student in 21 Jump Street (2012) and a neurotic ex-girlfriend in The Five-Year Engagement (2012). All three roles are considered by many to be scene stealing, but they totaled less screen time than the average music video.Three things she always carries in her purse: keys, Chap-Stick and candy.Was a presenter at the 87th annual Academy Awards on 2/22/2015. She attended the ceremony with her mother, Melanie Griffith.She has never been public about her political views. However, at the 2/26/2017Academy Awards ceremony, she and Academy Award winner Emma Stone wore pins showing their support for Planned Parenthood (which gives medical services to women) in protest of attempts by President Donald Trump and other Republicans who vowed to defund Planned Parenthood. In 2018 she said that she has never met Trump but is wary of his policies and his overzealous followers.Attended the New Roads School in Santa Monica, CA, for three years. |
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[on why she chose to be an actress] I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.
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When I did The Social Network (2010), David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
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I'm so happy when I'm working.
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I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do. |
| Salaries: |
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) - $250,000 plus bonuses tied to box office results |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
(2017) TV commercial and print media advert for "GUCCI Bloom" fragrance (with Hari Nef and Petra Collins)
(2017) Print ads for Intimissimi.
(2020) investor and co-creative director of "Maude", which is a sexual wellness brand |
| Children: |
No Children |
| Parents: |
Don Johnson
Melanie Griffith |
| Relatives: |
Tippi Hedren (Grandparent)
Alexander Bauer (Half Sibling)
Stella Banderas (Half Sibling)
Jesse Johnson (Half Sibling)
Jasper Johnson (Half Sibling)
Deacon Johnson (Half Siblin |
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