She's nine years old and has already been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (for her performance in I Am Sam). She got her first acting job at age six. She starred in Spielberg's sci-fi t.v. series "Taken" and has been a guest actor on almost every highly rated t.v. series now running. She'll co-star with Mike Myers in the upcoming The Cat in the Hat and she loves dolls, stuffed animals, tea sets and her co-star in the romantic comedy Uptown Girls, Brittany Murphy.

Blonde, blue-eyed Dakota Fanning isn't "precocious", she's dedicated to her craft and just very bright. If she and Haley Joel Osment got together some day, their kid would no doubt re-invent the universe. When we talked to the bouncy, happy but very professional Ms. Fanning recently she rushed into the room as we were wrapping up our chat with Brittany and the two compared their outfits of matching colors; Brittany in a black and white suit and Dakota in a cute, puffy-sleeved black and white lace top with polka dots. After hugging her young co-star, Brittany just had to give the word on Dakota.

Brittany: The dearest present I ever received in my life was from Dakota; a 1920's tea set and I love the '20's. I would like to spend more time with the people I love and, unfortunately, due to working schedules that isn't going to happen enough. I'm working on changing that.