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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.
Valkyries is a 2025 epic fantasy adventure film based on the mythological warriors of the same name. Produced by Legendary Pictures, The Stone Quarry, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, distributed by Lionsgate, and narrated by Vin Diesel, it is the first installment in the Ragnarök trilogy. Directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jerry Bruckheimer and Robert Eggers, the film stars an ensemble cast that includes Anne Hathaway, Liv Tyler, Travis Fimmel, Elle Fanning, Zendaya, Kaya Scodelario, Brenton Thwaites, Daniel Kaluuya, Tom Hardy, Laurence Fishburne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Naomi Watts, Jason Momoa as Tyr, and Kurt Russell as Odin. It marks Tyler's first collaboration with Jackson since the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In the film, the Valkyries are forced to protect Valhalla and humanity from the Aesir god Baldur when he is sent by his father to steal the powerful Helheim Portal Key and awaken the monsters living within Helheim in order to wreak havoc. Valkyries premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on November 11th, 2025, and was released ten days later; it was a financal success, grossing $845 million worldwide against a budget of $123 million. The film received widespread acclaim and was praised for its storytelling, visuals, direction, action sequences, performances (particularly Hathaway, Tyler, Watts, and Momoa), Hans Zimmer's musical score, and the emotional weight compared to previous Norse Mythology films. A sequel is in development.
