Dakota Johnson
Actor
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 thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), the coming-of-age film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), the romantic drama Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), and the superhero film Madame Web (2024).
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As Director
Filmography
The Social Network
as Amelia Ritter 2010
Fifty Shades of Grey
as Anastasia Steele 2015
21 Jump Street
as Fugazy 2012
Fifty Shades Freed
as Anastasia Steele 2018
Fifty Shades Darker
as Anastasia Steele 2017
Need for Speed
as Anita Coleman 2014
Bad Times at the El Royale
as Emily Summerspring 2018
Black Mass
as Lindsey Cyr 2015
How to Be Single
as Alice Kepley 2016
Beastly
as Sloan Hagen 2011
Suspiria
as Susie 2018
Madame Web
as Cassandra Webb 2024
The Peanut Butter Falcon
as Eleanor 2019
The Five-Year Engagement
as Audrey 2012
The Lost Daughter
as Nina 2021
Materialists
as Lucy 2025
Wounds
as Carrie 2019