Elle FanningElle's acting career started when she was 18 months old, with a brief
appearance in I Am Sam.
As a little sister of Dakota, she played a younger version
of Dakota's character Lucy. Similarly in her next role in Taken.
 Elle in I Am Sam with Sean Penn In the next couple of years Elle had small, single episode guest roles in
Judging Amy and two CSI serieses. The CSI
roles had even less dialogue than the Judging Amy clip below (original .mov available).
Judging Amy Around these times, Elle also had a small role in a family comedy Daddy Day Care,
which was released in 2003. That year Elle was in her first modeling shoot, for the Vogue Bambini
magazine.
The Door in
the Floor was Elle's first serious role: a large role in a high profile
movie. She did very well, especially considering she only turned 5 during
the filming, but role wasn't versatile enough for big conclusions about
Elle's skill. Even then, this is one of the essential Elle movies.
 The Door in the Floor's making-of Released the following year, Because of Winn-Dixie is another
routine kids' movie, with a dog focus. More interesting was Elle's 5
minutes long appearance in House M.D., of
which there is a part below.
Part of Elle's role in the
House M.D. episode "Need to Know" In 2006 Elle had an enjoyable, small or medium sized role in Babel. The same goes for the
TV series The Lost Room, where she has a
little under 10 minutes of screen time. One minute of that below.
The Lost Room In Deja Vu she had a very small role,
consisting of only a few cuts, and a couple of lines of dialogue. A
screenshot below.
 Deja Vu
Moving on to 2007 both The
Nines and Reservation Road are again nice films
where Elle has a fairly small but worthwhile roles, more so in the former.
In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Elle's role is quite brief, but the picture quality is glorious on the
blu-ray, and Elle is a sight to behold. The clip below shows a large part
of her role. Unfortunately Elle's voice is not her own.
The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button In 2008 Elle had the main role in Phoebe in Wonderland. It's easily
her best as of 2010, and will likely remain so. Elle plays Phoebe, a girl
beginning to show symptoms of a mental disorder who escapes reality into
Alice's Wonderland. Her role is broad and serious, finally giving her a
chance to demonstrate her skills at full.
Finally, enjoy some of Elle's perhaps best talk show. Such energy and
excitement, just like her big sister used to have in all her talk shows in
that age.
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
2009-03-11 Reviewed Movies
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