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A visual history of Dakota Fanning: 'Growing up too fast'?
The 17-year-old actress appears on this month's Cosmo alongside headlines like "His Best Sex Ever," igniting the latest controversy over her early sexualization
posted on January 9, 2012, at 7:20 AM
Photo: Frank Trapper/Corbis, Kurt Krieger/Corbis
Dakota Fanning was just 7 years old when she burst onto Hollywood's radar as Sean Penn's daughter in the tear-jerking I Am Sam, a performance that made her the youngest actress ever nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In the decade since, she has matured before our eyes, playing wise beyond her years in films like Uptown Girls, War of the Worlds, and The Runaways. But is she "growing up too fast"? Here, a visual history:
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