Little Dakota Fanning is making a big splash in Hollywood.

Just 10, Dakota already has worked with many top actors. But the pint-sized star has become an A-lister in her own right.

This will be her biggest year yet. She's set to shine in five movies, including Robert De Niro's Hide and Seek, which opened Friday and is No. 1 at the box office with $22 million.

Dakota and Tom Cruise are now filming War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg's remake of the 1953 sci-fi classic due out in June. She's Glenn Close's daughter in Nine Lives, which just premiered at Sundance. She narrates In the Realms of the Unreal, a documentary about artist Henry Darger, now in limited release. And she co-stars with Kurt Russell in the tentatively titled drama Dreamer, due this summer.

Unfazed by high-powered actors and seven-figure paydays, Dakota says she simply enjoys what she's doing.

''I just love acting so much; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life,'' says Dakota, who begins filming Charlotte's Web in late March.

Those who have worked with the young star rave about her skills. ''Dakota is a wonderful, special, gifted actress and one of the most professional I've worked with,'' De Niro says.