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Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American
actress and model. She is the daughter of actors Melanie Griffith andDon Johnson. She had her screen
debut alongside her mother in the comedy-drama Crazy in Alabama (1999) and was named Miss Golden Globe in 2006. Following high school graduation, she returned
to acting with roles in The
Social Network (2010), Beastly(2011), 21 Jump Street (2012), Need for Speed (2014) and the short-lived comedy Ben and Kate (2012-2013).
She
received international recognition in 2015 after landing the lead role of Anastasia Steele in the romantic drama Fifty Shades of Grey, which
catapulted her to fame and earned her the People's
Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress. The same year, she gave
critically acclaimed performances in Black
Mass and A Bigger Splash, which garnered
her a BAFTA Rising Star Awardnomination.
She also starred in the romantic comedy How
to Be Single (2016) and will
reprise her role as Anastasia
Steele in Fifty Shades Darker (2017) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018).
Early life[edit]
Johnson was born in Austin, Texas,[1] to
actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. On her mother's side, she is a
granddaughter of advertising executive and former child actor Peter Griffith and Golden Globe-winning
actress Tippi Hedren, and
half-niece of actressTracy Griffith and
production designer Clay A. Griffith. Her former stepfather is actor Antonio Banderas.[2] She
has six half-siblings; four on her father's side and two on her mother's side.
A third-generation Hollywood actress, Johnson attended Aspen Community
School in Aspen, Colorado.[3] She
later attended the Santa Catalina School in Monterey,
California, for her freshman year of high school before transferring
to New Roads School in Santa Monica,
California.[4] She was an avid dancer as a
child. She became interested in modeling at age 12 after a photo shoot with
children of other celebrities for Teen
Vogue.[3]
Career[edit]
Acting[edit]
In 1999, Johnson made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama where she and her
half-sister, Stella Banderas,
played daughters to their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith. The film was
directed by her then-stepfather, Antonio Banderas. In 2006, she was chosen as Miss Golden Globe 2006, where she served
as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes' history.[5][6]
Once Johnson graduated from high school, she signed with the William
Morris Agency and started her acting career. She appeared in the critically
acclaimed box office hit The Social
Network which was directed by David Fincher. She has also appeared in Beastly,[7] Ezna
Sands' film Chloe and Theo,[8] and So Yong Kim's film For Ellen.[9] In
2012, she had roles in Christopher Neil's
film Goats, with David Duchovny; Nicholas Stoller's film The Five-Year Engagement for producer Judd Apatow, and the film 21 Jump Street.[10] She
also played the female lead in Chris Nelson's
film Date and Switch written
by Alan Yang.[11]
In March 2012, Johnson was cast as Kate in the Fox comedy series Ben and Kate, marking her television
debut.[12] The show was cancelled on
January 25, 2013 after one season.[13] Johnson quickly resumed her
film career, and appeared in Need for
Speed (2014).[14] She also has been cast in
the modern-day film adaptation of William
Shakespeare's Cymbeline.[15]
In 2013, she had a role as one of the new hires on the "Finale" episode of The Office. Johnson played Anastasia
"Ana" Steele in Fifty Shades
of Grey, which was released in February 2015.[16] Johnson
won the role over Lucy Hale, Felicity Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Danielle Panabaker and Shailene Woodley. On February 15, 2015,
Johnson appeared on Saturday Night
Live's 40th anniversary special and hosted SNL on
February 28, 2015, making her the second daughter of a former SNL host (after Gwyneth Paltrow, whose mother Blythe Danner hosted during the show's
seventh season in 1982) to host herself. Also in 2015, she reunited with her 21
Jump Street cast member Johnny
Depp, playing the mother of his character's child in the feature
film Black Mass.[17]
In 2015, Johnson starred in Luca
Guadagnino's thriller A
Bigger Splash,[18] opposite Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Ralph Fiennes.[19] She
also played a lead in the 2016 comedy How
to Be Single, with Leslie
Mann and her Date and
Switch costar Nicholas
Braun.[20]
Johnson mentioned in the Autumm/Winter 2015 issue of AnOther Magazine, that she is already
deep in ballet training to prepare for Luca
Guadagnino's remake of Suspiria.[21]She will
star with Schnoenaerts again in The Sound of Metal, where she plays
a singer, and he plays a drummer who begins to lose his hearing.[22] She
will also star in and executive produce the film Forever, Interrupted,
playing a young widow.[23]
Modeling[edit]
In 2006, Johnson signed with IMG
Models.[3] Though acting is her
primary work, she has since modeled for MANGO brand's
jeans line in 2009 and shot the "Rising Star" campaign for Australian
fashion label Wish in 2011.[9][24]
Personal life[edit]
Johnson was previously in relationships with musician Noah Gersh[25] and
actor Jordan Masterson.[26]
In answer to questions regarding her stance on gender rights with
respect to her role in Fifty Shades, Johnson stated: "I'm
proud of [the movie]. I completely disagree with people who think Ana's weak. I
think she's actually stronger than she is. Everything she does
is her choice. And if I can be an advocate for women to do what they want to do
with their bodies and not be ashamed of what they want, then I'm all for
that."[27]
Filmography[edit]
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Film
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Year
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Title
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Role
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Notes
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1999
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Crazy in Alabama
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Sondra
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2010
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The Social
Network
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Amelia Ritter
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2011
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Beastly
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Sloan Hagen
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2012
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For Ellen
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Cindy Taylor
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Goats
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Minnie
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21 Jump Street
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Fugazy
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The Five-Year
Engagement
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Audrey
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2014
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Date and Switch
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Em
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Need for Speed
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Anita Coleman
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2015
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Fifty Shades of
Grey
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Anastasia "Ana" Steele
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Cymbeline
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Imogen
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Chloe and Theo
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Chloe
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Black Mass
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Lindsey Cyr
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A Bigger Splash
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Penelope
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2016
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How to Be Single
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Alice
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2017
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Fifty Shades
Darker
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Anastasia Steele
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Filming
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2018
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Fifty Shades
Freed
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Anastasia Grey
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Filming
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Television
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Year
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Title
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Role
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Notes
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2012–13
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Ben and Kate
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Kate Fox
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Main role; 16 episodes
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2013
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The Office
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Dakota
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Episode: "Finale"
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2015
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Saturday Night
Live
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Host
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Episode: "Dakota Johnson/Alabama Shakes"
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Awards and nominations[edit]
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Year
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Association
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Category
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Work
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Result
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Ref.
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2010
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Hollywood Film
Awards
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Ensemble of the Year (shared with rest of cast)
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The Social Network
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Won
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[28]
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2010
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San Diego Film
Critics Society Awards
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Best Ensemble
Performance
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The Social Network
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Nominated
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[28]
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2010
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Washington D.C.
Area Film Critics Association
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Best Acting
Ensemble
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The Social Network
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Nominated
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[28]
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2011
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Palm Springs
International Film Festival
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Ensemble Cast Award
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The Social Network
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Won
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[28]
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2013
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Women's Image
Network Awards
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Outstanding Actress in a Comedy
Series
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Ben and Kate
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Nominated
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[28]
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2014
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Young Hollywood
Awards
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Breakthrough Actress
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N/A
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Nominated
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[29]
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2015
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Calvin Klein Spotlight Award
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Elle Women in Hollywood
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N/A
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Won
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[30][31]
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2016
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People's Choice
Awards
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Favorite Dramatic
Movie Actress
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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Won
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[32]
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2016
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British Academy
Film Awards
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Rising Star Award
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Fifty Shades of Grey and Black Mass
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Nominated
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[33]
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2016
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Golden Raspberry
Awards
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Worst Actress
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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Won
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[34]
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Worst Screen
Combo (shared with Jamie Dornan)
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Won
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2016
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MTV Movie Awards
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Best Breakthrough
Performance
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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Pending
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[35]
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Best Kiss (shared with Jamie Dornan)
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Pending
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