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Dakota Johnson

Acting · Born October 4, 1989 · Austin, Texas, USA

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.

Movies with Dakota Johnson

• Verity (2026) — Lowen Ashleigh
• Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) — Anastasia Steele
• Fifty Shades Freed (2018) — Anastasia Steele
• The Social Network (2010) — Amelia Ritter
• 21 Jump Street (2012) — Fugazy
• Madame Web (2024) — Cassandra Webb
• Materialists (2025) — Lucy
• How to Be Single (2016) — Alice Kepley
• Fifty Shades Darker (2017) — Anastasia Steele
• Need for Speed (2014) — Anita Coleman
• Beastly (2011) — Sloan Hagen
• Black Mass (2015) — Lindsey Cyr

TV shows with Dakota Johnson

• Ben and Kate (2012) — Kate Fox