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Dakota Johnson

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Suspiria

Appears in a KinoChain journey

A Bigger Splash

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Fifty Shades of Grey

As Anastasia Steele

Fifty Shades Freed

As Anastasia Steele

Materialists

As Lucy

21 Jump Street

As Fugazy

Fifty Shades Darker

As Anastasia Steele

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Remakes That Missed but Matter

From Neil LaBute's Wicker Man to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a journey through remakes that stumbled yet reveal why we keep returning to the classics.

8 films

Five Essential Summer Films

A curated selection of films that capture summer's heat, languor, and menace, sidestepping the usual suspects for more surprising, evocative choices.

5 films

Small Craft Warnings

From the open sea to a leaky skiff, these eight films use small boats as vessels for self-discovery, each one a different kind of voyage.

8 films

Dancing Against the Current: Eight Films of Rebellion in Motion

From the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the streets of Baltimore, these films trace the dancer's fight for selfhood against the weight of expectation. A curated j...

8 films

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