Elle Fanning

Elle Fanning

Actor (b. 1998)
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The ThumbScore for Elle Fanning (67.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 33 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Elle's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

33
Movies
67.3%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Elle Fanning’s films lower than 85% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Sentimental Value (Kanopy) · Babel (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Trumbo (YouTube, Fandango at Home, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Mary Shelley (Philo, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Plex, Kanopy) · 3 Generations (YouTube, Philo, The CW, Fandango at Home, Plex, Kanopy) · Super 8 (Kanopy, Pluto TV) and 9 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Angelina Jolie (2)Sam Riley (2)Timothée Chalamet (2)Sofia Coppola (2)Ben Affleck (2)

Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress. As a child, she made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001). She appeared in several other films as a child actress, including Daddy Day Care (2003), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008), and the miniseries The Lost Room (2006).

She then had leading roles in Sofia Coppola's drama Somewhere (2010) and J. J. Abrams' science fiction film Super 8 (2011). Fanning played Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) while working in independent films such as Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa (2012), Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), and Coppola's The Beguiled (2017). From 2020 to 2023, she starred as Catherine the Great in the Hulu period satire series The Great, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She has since portrayed Michelle Carter in the Hulu limited series The Girl from Plainville (2022), made her Broadway debut in the play Appropriate (2023), and played a character based on Suze Rotolo in the biographical drama A Complete Unknown (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elle Fanning, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1998-04-09 in Conyers, Georgia, USA.

On ThumbScore, Elle Fanning appears in 33 films with an average audience score of 67.3%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Elle Fanning movie, ranked by audience score

Sentimental Value
Sentimental Value
2025
👍 88%
Predator: Badlands
Predator: Badlands
2025
👍 85%
Maleficent
Maleficent
2014
👍 85%
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
👍 85%
A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown
2024
👍 83%
Babel
Babel
2006
👍 79%
We Bought a Zoo
We Bought a Zoo
2011
👍 78%
Ballerina
Ballerina
2016
👍 78%
All the Bright Places
All the Bright Places
2020
👍 75%
20th Century Women
20th Century Women
2016
👍 73%
Because of Winn-Dixie
Because of Winn-Dixie
2005
👍 70%
Trumbo
Trumbo
2015
👍 68%
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
2017
👍 68%
3 Generations
3 Generations
2016
👍 68%
Reservation Road
Reservation Road
2007
👍 68%
Super 8
Super 8
2011
👍 67%
The Neon Demon
The Neon Demon
2016
👍 67%
The Boxtrolls
The Boxtrolls
2014
👍 66%
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017
👍 65%
The Door in the Floor
The Door in the Floor
2004
👍 64%
A Rainy Day in New York
A Rainy Day in New York
2019
👍 63%
Teen Spirit
Teen Spirit
2019
👍 62%
Ginger & Rosa
Ginger & Rosa
2012
👍 62%
Young Ones
Young Ones
2014
👍 61%
Twixt
Twixt
2011
👍 60%
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
2010
👍 58%
I Think We're Alone Now
I Think We're Alone Now
2018
👍 57%
Live by Night
Live by Night
2016
👍 55%
Rosebush Pruning
Rosebush Pruning
2026
👍 55%
Somewhere
Somewhere
2010
👍 54%
The Beguiled
The Beguiled
2017
👍 52%
The Nines
The Nines
2007
👍 52%
Galveston
Galveston
2018
👍 51%