Dakota Johnson Biography, Age, Height, Net-worth, Boyfriend

Dakota Johnson- Biography

Dakota Johnson is an American actress who was born on October 4 1989 in Austin, Texas, USA. She is the daughter of renowned actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her grandmother is Tippy Hedren. She made her movie debut only at the age of 10 alongside her mother in the 1999 dark comedy Crazy In Alabama. She mainly rose to fame after working in the Fifty Shades series.

Name: Dakota Mayi Johnson

Nickname: Coqui

Birthday: October 4, 1989

Birthplace: Austin, Texas. USA

Age: 34

Net Worth: 14 Million ($)

Hometown: Austin, Texas, USA

Currently lives in: Los Angeles

Religion: Christianity

Nationality: American

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Family and Relatives

Father: Don Johnson

Mother: Melanie Griffith

Grandmother: Tippy Hedren

Grandfather: Peter Griffith

Half Siblings: Alexandar Bauer

                        Stella Banderas

                        Jesse Johnson

                        Jasper Johnson

                        Deacon Johnson  

                        Grace Johnson

Partner: Chris Martin

Education

Educational Qualification-High School

School: Santa Catalina School

             Aspen Community School

Physical Appearance

Height in Centimeters: 171cm

Height in Meters: 1.71 m

Height in Feet Inches: 5’7″

Weight: 59 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Brown

Favourites

Favourite Actor: Johnny Depp

Favourite Actress: Emma Stone

Favourite T.V Shows: Kate Fox

Favourite Film: The Social Network 2010

Favourite Food: Spanish and Chinese

Favourite Colour: Black

Favourite Location: London

Favourite Singer: Chris Martin

Early Life

Johnson was born on October 4, 1989, in Austin, Texas to actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Most of her family members are involved in the film industry, hence, encouraging her to join the same. Her maternal grandfather Peter Griffith was a child actor and an advertising executive whereas her grandmother Tippy Hedren was an actress. She is the niece of actress Tracy Griffith. Her ex-stepfather is Antonio Banderas. She is also a sister to the actor Jesse Johnson. Because of her parent's profession, she traveled around several places and film sets. Also, she used to work at a local market when she was a teenager during the summers. At the age of 12, after doing a photo shoot with the children of other celebrities for Teen Vogue, she became interested in modeling. Her spending time on several film sets along with her parents during her childhood made her attracted more to the profession. She was determined to pursue acting but her parents didn’t let her follow her passion until she finished high school. At a very young age, she was diagnosed with ADHD and changed schools several times. In an interview, she said, "I was so consistently unmoored and discombobulated. I didn't have an anchor anywhere". She has struggled with depression for many years and has been to rehab.

Career

In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama, where she played the role of daughter to her real-life mother Melanie Griffith alongside her step-sister, Stella Banderas, and the director of the film was her former stepfather, Antonio Banderas.

In 2006, she started working with IMG Models. In 2009, she worked as a model for MANGO’s jeans line and also was involved with the “Rising Star” campaign for Australian fashion brand Wish in 2011.

She began her career as an actress by signing with the William Morris Agency. In David Fincher's Oscar-nominated smash film The Social Network (2010), she played a small role as Amelia Ritter. In the fantasy film Beastly (2011), she played a minor role. Later, in So Yong Kim's drama For Ellen (2012), she starred alongside Paul Dano and Jon Heder and told the story of a poor musician caught in a custody dispute. She appeared in three other films in 2012, Nicholas Stoller's romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement, the comedy 21 Jump Street, and Christopher Neil's independent comedy Goats, in which she played a prep school student. In Chris Nelson's film Date and Switch, which was written by Alan Yang, she also portrayed the lead female role.

Johnson made her television debut in March 2012 when she was chosen to play Kate in the Fox comedy series Ben and Kate. On January 25, 2013, the program was canceled after just one season. A brief cameo in Need for Speed (2014) marked Johnson's rapid return to the movie industry. She appeared in the 2013 season finale of the NBC comedy series The Office as one of the new hires.

Johnson rose to fame for her role as Anastasia Steele in the erotic drama film Fifty Shades of Grey, which was released in 2015. She played the lead opposite Jamie Dornan. Though after the film she faced a lot of criticism, she remained unbothered, rather she said she was proud of the film. In the same year, she hosted the SNL and appeared in the Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary. Her career kept growing as she appeared in several other films the same year. She was a part of the feature film Black Mass, with Johnny Depp as one of the main characters. A Bigger Splash is another movie she did in 2015. Together with Leslie Mann and her Date and Switch co-star Nicholas Braun, she starred in the 2016 comedy How to Be Single as the lead role. She joined actresses Zani Jones Mbayise, Vanessa Rubio, and Damon Wayans Jr. in a rendition of the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" for the movie's soundtrack. In June 2016, Johnson received a membership invitation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Johnson attended dance classes to prepare herself for the supernatural horror film Suspiria, a remake of the 1977 film. In 2019, she starred in Wounds, a psychological horror film opposite Armie Hammer. Her other films released in the same year were The Peanut Butter Falcon and Our Friend. She also sang three cover songs for films' soundtracks. In 2020, she started working on her production company Tea Time Pictures and her partner in the business Ro Donnelly. She co-directed a music video for Coldplay’s Cry Cry Cry along with the director Cory Bailey. She co-starred in Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter in 2021, which was adapted from Elena Ferrante's book of the same name. Boat Rocker Media purchased a minority stake in Johnson's TeaTime Pictures company in December 2021. She starred in the 2022 Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion as Stephanie Allyne and Tig Notaro and in Cooper Raiff's Cha Cha Real Smooth as a young mother. Daddio, which she co-produced and acted in, was released in 2023. In 2018, she collaborated with 300 other women to set up the Times’s Up initiative to save women from assault and discrimination

Next, Johnson will play Madame Web in the superhero movie of the same name, which is based in the Spider-Man universe created by Sony.

Awards and Achievements

As a member of the crew for Suspiria, Johnson was given the Robert Altman Award from the Independent Spirit Awards. She was nominated for two MTV Movie & TV Awards and won a People's Choice Award for her performance in the Fifty Shades movie series. In 2016 she received a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.