She has played a vampire and a rock star and has been a household name since she shot to fame at the tender age of seven years old. But Hollywood actress Dakota Fanning is still very much a down-to-earth, all-American girl-next door as these pictures show.
The 16-year-old actress received one of the biggest accolades an American teenage girl could get after she was crowned Homecoming Queen at her high school yesterday. It was also the second year running that Dakota - who is also on the cheerleading squad - and the school's American Football team's quarterback were made Homecoming King and Queen at the £19,000-a-year private high school, Campbell Hall Episcopal in North Hollywood.
Fanning and her unknown King beamed broadly for the cameras as they were both draped in sashes and given crowns, while she also received a bunch of roses. Homecoming is an annual tradition in the US which welcomes back former residents and alumni of a high school or university and includes a day of activities including a sports match and a parade through the town or city. The day also has a Homecoming Court, consisting of a group of students that are crowned King, Queen and Price and Princess. Usually the King and Queen are students in their last year of study and are voted for by classmates in a secret ballot.
Dakota first shot to fame as she starred alongside Sean Penn in the 2001 film I Am Sam at the age of seven, a role which made her the youngest person to receive a Screen Actors Guild award nomination. She has since built up an impressive celluloid CV but is also best known for starring alongside Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's 2005 remake of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
Last year, she joined the Twilight cast and made her debut in New Moon as Volturi vampire Jane before teaming up with co-star Kristen Stewart again this year to make The Runaways, a biopic about Joan Jett's rock band.
But despite her Hollywood career that keeps going from strength to strength, Dakota inists that she is a down-to-earth normal teenager.
She said: 'I have such a normal life when I’m not working . . . It’s just nice to be around people you care about and who know you best.'
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