Dakota Johnson

Acting · Born 1989-10-04 in Austin, Texas, USA

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…

Filmography

• The Social Network as Amelia Ritter
• The Peanut Butter Falcon as Eleanor
• Our Friend as Nicole Teague
• The High Note as Maggie Sherwoode
• Cha Cha Real Smooth as Domino
• Crazy in Alabama as Sondra
• Beastly as Sloan Hagen
• The Five-Year Engagement as Audrey
• Date and Switch as Em
• Fifty Shades of Grey as Anastasia Steele

TV

• The Office as Dakota
• Ben and Kate as Kate Fox
• Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
• El hormiguero as Self
• The Drew Barrymore Show as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self