Dakota Johnson
American actress (born 1989)
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- Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress.
- The daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, as a child, she played a minor role in her then-stepfather Antonio Banderas's directed Crazy in Alabama (1999).
- Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role in the erotic Fifty Shades film series (2015–2018), for which she received a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance nomination.
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WikipediaDakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. Her accolades include a nomination for a British Academy Film Award and was featured in a Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
The daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, as a child, she played a minor role in her then-stepfather Antonio Banderas's directed Crazy in Alabama (1999). After graduating from high school, she began auditioning for roles and had a brief part in the biographical drama film The Social Network (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role in the erotic Fifty Shades film series (2015–2018), for which she received a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance nomination.
Johnson's profile grew with roles in the crime drama Black Mass (2015), the drama A Bigger Splash (2015), the romantic comedy How to Be Single (2016), the horror film Suspiria (2018), the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), the coming-of-age film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), the romantic drama Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), and the romantic film Materialists (2025). Offscreen, she has been labeled as a sex symbol.
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