Dakota Mayi Johnson was born Oct. 4, 1989.
And he or she’s been rolling with that Hollywood life ever since, making her film debut in 1999’s Loopy in Alabama (starring her mother and directed by her then-stepdad Antonio Banderas) earlier than increase steam beneath her personal identify with the Fifty Shades saga, A Larger Splash, Find out how to Be Single, Suspiria and Madam Internet.
She has mentioned that she finds the nepo child dialog “extremely annoying,” primarily as a result of going into one’s household enterprise is fairly commonplace.
“I began auditioning,” she recalled in 2025 to Materialists costar Pedro Pascal for Elle. There have been dry spells after which, sure, “I’d should ask my dad and mom for assist,” she shared. “I’m very grateful that I had dad and mom that would assist me and did assist me. But it surely definitely was not enjoyable. The auditioning course of, as you understand, is the f–king worst.”
Melanie and Don divorced in 1996, however she stays near them, her stepmom, her ex-stepdad and all of her half-siblings—who’re merely brothers and sisters to her, full cease.
“I used to be raised by numerous folks, my mother and my dad after which stepparents and nannies and tutors and associates and lecturers after which associates’ dad and mom and boyfriends’ dad and mom,” Dakota instructed The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I wished to be taught from all people. And I nonetheless am like that. I’m grateful to my dad and mom and my loopy life as a result of the one motive I’m the way in which I’m is due to how I grew up.”
