Nook NotesPick a film
Dakota Johnson

Actor

Dakota Johnson

Born October 4, 1989 in Austin, Texas, USA41 films

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.

Read more

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).

Description above from the Wikipedia article Dakota Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Start here

The best way into Dakota Johnson's work
The Social Network posterFirst watchThe Social Network20107.4as Amelia RitterIn 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
21 Jump Street poster6.921 Jump Street2012Fifty Shades Freed poster6.7Fifty Shades Freed2018Fifty Shades Darker poster6.5Fifty Shades Darker2017Bad Times at the El Royale poster6.8Bad Times at the El Royale2018Fifty Shades of Grey poster5.9Fifty Shades of Grey2015Need for Speed poster6.5Need for Speed2014The Peanut Butter Falcon poster7.4The Peanut Butter Falcon2019Suspiria poster6.9Suspiria2018

Filmography

41 films as actor
  1. TBACrackpot
  2. TBATrudy Blue
  3. TBAThree Incestuous SistersOphile
  4. 2026VerityLowen Ashleigh
  5. 2026Patient Zero
  6. 2026Flesh ImpactMarilyn Monroe
  7. 2025SplitsvilleJulie
  8. 2025MaterialistsLucy
  9. 2024DaddioGirlie
  10. 2024Am I OK?Lucy
  11. 2024Madame WebCassandra Webb
  12. 2022PersuasionAnne Elliot
  13. 2022Cha Cha Real SmoothDomino
  14. 2021The Lost DaughterNina
  15. 2020The High NoteMaggie Sherwoode
  16. 2019Our FriendNicole Teague
  17. 2019The Peanut Butter FalconEleanor
  18. 2019WoundsCarrie
  19. 2018SuspiriaSusie
  20. 2018Bad Times at the El RoyaleEmily Summerspring
  21. 2018Fifty Shades FreedAnastasia Steele
  22. 2017Fifty Shades DarkerAnastasia Steele
  23. 2016How to Be SingleAlice Kepley
  24. 2015A Bigger SplashPenelope Lanier
  25. 2015Black MassLindsey Cyr
  26. 2015Chloe and TheoChloe
  27. 2015Fifty Shades of GreyAnastasia Steele
  28. 2015In a RelationshipWilla
  29. 2014CymbelineImogen
  30. 2014Closed SetLeading Lady
  31. 2014Need for SpeedAnita Coleman
  32. 2014Date and SwitchEm
  33. 2012GoatsMinnie
  34. 2012TransitElizabeth Becks
  35. 2012The Five-Year EngagementAudrey
  36. 201221 Jump StreetFugazy
  37. 2012For EllenCindy Taylor
  38. 2011BeastlySloan Hagen
  39. 2010The Social NetworkAmelia Ritter
  40. 2010Behind the Scenes of All That GlittersDianica French
  41. 1999Crazy in AlabamaSondra