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Home/People/Dakota Johnson
Dakota Johnson profile photo
Born
Oct 4, 1989
Age 36
Place of Birth
Austin, Texas, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

43
Movies
18
TV Shows
2
Directed
Also Known As
Dakota Mayi Johnson
IMDb Profile

Dakota Johnson

Acting

Biography
Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Johnson made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in Crazy in Alabama (1999), directed by her then-stepfather Antonio Banderas and starring her mother. After graduating from high school, she began auditioning for roles and had a minor part in The Social Network (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role in the erotic Fifty Shades film series (2015–2018). In 2016, she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and was featured in a Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Her 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 superhero film Madame Web (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dakota Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Verity poster

Verity

as Lowen Ashleigh
2026
Splitsville poster

Splitsville

as Julie
2025
Materialists poster

Materialists

as Lucy
2025
Daddio poster

Daddio

as Girlie
2024
Am I OK? poster

Am I OK?

as Lucy
2024
Madame Web poster

Madame Web

as Cassandra Webb
2024
The Disappearance of Shere Hite poster

The Disappearance of Shere Hite

as Shere Hite (voice)
2023
Persuasion poster

Persuasion

as Anne Elliot
2022
Cha Cha Real Smooth poster

Cha Cha Real Smooth

as Domino
2022
The Lost Daughter poster

The Lost Daughter

as Nina
2021
The Nowhere Inn poster

The Nowhere Inn

as Self
2021
The High Note poster

The High Note

as Maggie Sherwoode
2020
Our Friend poster

Our Friend

as Nicole Teague
2019
The Peanut Butter Falcon poster

The Peanut Butter Falcon

as Eleanor
2019
Wounds poster

Wounds

as Carrie
2019
Suspiria poster

Suspiria

as Susie
2018
Bad Times at the El Royale poster

Bad Times at the El Royale

as Emily Summerspring
2018
Fifty Shades Freed poster

Fifty Shades Freed

as Anastasia Steele
2018
Fifty Shades Darker poster

Fifty Shades Darker

as Anastasia Steele
2017
How to Be Single poster

How to Be Single

as Alice Kepley
2016