
Biography
Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Johnson made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in Crazy in Alabama (1999), directed by her then-stepfather Antonio Banderas and starring her mother. After graduating from high school, she began auditioning for roles and had a minor part in The Social Network (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role in the erotic Fifty Shades film series (2015–2018). In 2016, she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and was featured in a Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Her profile grew with roles in the crime drama Black Mass (2015), the drama A Bigger Splash (2015), the romantic comedy How to Be Single (2016), the horror film Suspiria (2018), the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), the coming-of-age film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), the romantic drama Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), and the superhero film Madame Web (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dakota Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst Actress · 2025
- Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award · 2019
- People's Choice Awards · 2016
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst Actress · 2015
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble · 2015
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- Phoenix Film Critics Society Award — Best Cast · 2010
- Golden Globe Ambassador · 2006
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst Actress · 2017 · nominated
- BAFTA Rising Star Award · 2016 · nominated
- MTV Movie Award — Best Breakthrough Performance · 2016 · nominated
- MTV Movie Award — Best Kiss · 2016 · nominated
- Young Hollywood Awards · 2014 · nominated
- Women's Image Network Awards · 2013 · nominated
- San Diego Film Critics Society Award — Best Performance by an Ensemble · 2010 · nominated
- Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association · 2010 · nominated
Filmography47 titles

The Office

Call Me by Your Name

The Peanut Butter Falcon

The Social Network

Our Friend

The Graham Norton Show

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Hot Ones

The High Note

Suspiria

21 Jump Street

Saturday Night Live

Bad Times at the El Royale

Fifty Shades Freed

Ben and Kate

The Lost Daughter

Fifty Shades Darker

Black Mass

Am I OK?

Need for Speed

Materialists

Splitsville

Daddio

How to Be Single

Beastly

Slip

A Bigger Splash

Persuasion

Crazy in Alabama

Fifty Shades of Grey

The Five-Year Engagement

The Nowhere Inn

The Drew Barrymore Show

Chloe and Theo

Date and Switch

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Goats

For Ellen

Madame Web

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Wounds

Cymbeline