Dakota Johnson

Actress

Date of birth : 10/04/1989

City of birth : Austin, Texas, USA

“A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.” Dakota Johnson has cinema in her DNA, she is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson and granddaughter of Tippi Hedren, Alfred Hitchcock's iconic muse. At just 10 years old, she debuted alongside her mother in "Crazy in Alabama" (1999), directed by Antonio Banderas. Years later she was selected to play Anastasia Steele in the "Fifty Shades of Grey'' saga (2015-2018), jumped to stardom and was nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star in 2016. On the other hand, her interest in independent and auteur films is evident from her participation in films such as "A bigger splash" (2015) and "Suspiria" (2018) by Luca Guadagnino, "The Peanut Butter Falcon" (2019) by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz premiered at South by Southwest or "Wounds" (2019) the thriller directed by Babak Anvari with world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. She also bet on Maggie Gyllenhaal's debut feature film accepting the role of Nina in "The Lost Daughter" (2021) where her enigmatic and captivating performance stands out.