Dakota Johnson

Dakota Johnson is a BAFTA-nominated and award-winning actress and producer who is currently starring with Sean Penn in the two-handed drama Daddio. Johnson burst onto the scene with her performance in David Fincher’s critically acclaimed The Social Network and went on to appear in the feature comedies The Five-Year Engagement and 21 Jump Street. She then starred as Anastasia Steele in Universal’s billion-dollar franchise Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she starred opposite Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, and starred in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, with Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes, the same director’s critically acclaimed 2018 remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Johnson starred alongside Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen in the indie hit The Peanut Butter Falcon, which won the Audience Award at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and grossed over $20 million in the U.S., making it the top platform release that year. In 2019, the accomplished actress also launched TeaTime Pictures with producing partner, Ro Donnelly. TeaTime’s first two feature films, Cha Cha Real Smooth and Am I OK? sold straight out of their respective premieres at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to Apple TV+ and HBO Max.

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Three Great Things: Dakota Johnson

By Dakota Johnson | June 28, 2024

Three Great Things: Dakota Johnson

The acclaimed actress, whose new movie with Sean Penn, Daddio, opens in theaters today, on some of life's essentials.