Elle attended the New York City premiere of her film, We Bought A Zoo, on December 12th, 2011.
Elle attended the Children of Heart gala in New York City on Nov. 21st, 2011.
Elle was originally slated to play the lead role in the 2008 film My Sister's Keeper, but when she and her sister Dakota both backed out of the project, actress Abigail Breslin got Elle's role.
Elle starred in the sci-fi mini-series The Lost Room with Peter Krause.
Her mom named her Mary and her dad named her Elle, so her name is Mary Elle Fanning. Like her older sister Dakota, she uses her middle name instead of her first name.
As a child, Elle used to play the role of newborn in her big sister Dakota's roleplays.
Elle was Marilyn Monroe for Halloween.
During the filming of a dramatic scene in The Door in the Floor, Elle's distraught performance was so realistic that she panicked her onscreen father, Jeff Bridges. She screamed, cried, and hit him, then after the take laughed and ran off to play with her toys.
Elle and her older sister Dakota are afraid of thunderstorms and lightning
She is a fan of Marilyn Monroe.
Elle Fanning: (On the fun parts of showbiz) What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.
Elle Fanning: (On learning her lines) I just remember them. We do all the scenes that I'm in, and then we're done.
Elle Fanning: I just love working with Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy's so funny!
Elle Fanning:(On the funniest moment while filming Daddy Day Care) [Eddie Murphy] did that, and he runned after Shane and like "Come back here! What's your name? What's your name.
Elle Fanning: (On her first scene in Daddy Day Care) At the day care center, her mother, my mother in the scene, gives me a pink cell phone around my neck, to call her if it has a problem.
Elle Fanning:(On acting) What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.
Elle Fanning: (on acting) I love it. I just love how you get to be different people and have different names.
Elle: (On her favorite scene in Daddy Day Care) Oh I guess jumping in the flowers, and the water scenes, cause we got to be in bathing suits and swim in the water, and in the water fountain.
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