Dakota Johnson Biography And Net Worth

Who is Dakota Johnson?

Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, she made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in the dark comedy film Crazy in Alabama (1999) with her mother. After graduating high school, she began auditioning for roles in Los Angeles and was cast in a minor part in The Social Network (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough playing Anastasia Steele in the erotic romantic drama film series Fifty Shades (2015–2018), and she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2016.

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Biography

Dakota Mayi Johnson was born on October 4, 1989, at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, to actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her father was shooting the film The Hot Spot (1990) in Texas when she was born. Her maternal grandparents are advertising executive and former child actor Peter Griffith and actress Tippi Hedren. She is the niece of actress Tracy Griffith and production designer Clay A. Griffith. Her former stepfather is Spanish actor Antonio Banderas. Johnson has six half-siblings: on her mother’s side, she has one half-brother, Alexander Bauer, and one half-sister, Stella Banderas; on her father’s side, she has three half-brothers—Jesse, Jasper, and Deacon—and one half-sister, Grace Johnson.

Owing to her parents’ occupations, Johnson spent much of her childhood in various locations with them on film sets and premieres, though she spent extended amounts of time in Aspen and Woody Creek, Colorado where she worked during summers at the local market as a teenager. In Woody Creek, she was neighbours with Hunter S. Thompson. She attended the Aspen Community School for a time. “I was so consistently unmoored and discombobulated, I didn’t have an anchor anywhere,” Johnson recalled. She attended the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, for her freshman year of high school before transferring to the private New Roads School in Santa Monica, California.

Johnson became interested in modelling at age twelve after taking part in a photoshoot with other celebrities’ children for Teen Vogue and subsequently earned an income modelling while attending high school in Santa Monica. She has struggled with depression since around age fourteen and checked into rehabilitation. She also has had ADHD since childhood. Johnson was interested in acting as a child, having spent significant time on film sets with her parents, but they discouraged her from pursuing the profession until she graduated high school. After high school, she was turned down by Juilliard in New York City; her audition featured a cover of a Radiohead song.

Career

In 1999, Johnson made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama, where she and her half-sister Stella Banderas played daughters to their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith.  In 2006, she was chosen as Miss Golden Globe 2006, where she served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes’ history.

In 2006, Johnson signed with IMG Models. Though acting is her primary work, she has since modelled for MANGO brand’s jeans line in 2009 and shot the “Rising Star” campaign for Australian fashion label Wish in 2011.

After graduating from high school, Johnson took acting classes with teacher Tom Todoroff until 2008. She signed with the William Morris Agency and started her acting career. She appeared in a minor role as Amelia Ritter in the Oscar-nominated hit film The Social Network (2010), directed by David Fincher. She had a small role in the fantasy film Beastly (2011), followed by So Yong Kim’s drama For Ellen (2012) opposite Paul Dano and Jon Heder, about a struggling musician in the midst of a custody battle. Also in 2012, she had roles in Christopher Neil’s independent comedy Goats, portraying a student at a prep school; Nicholas Stoller’s romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement; and the comedy 21 Jump Street. She also played the female lead in Chris Nelson’s film Date and Switch. 

Dakota Johnson’s breakthrough came with her leading role as Anastasia “Ana” Steele in the erotic romantic drama film Fifty Shades of Grey, which was released in February 2015 and brought her international recognition.

Johnson appeared in films such as the crime drama Black Mass (2015), Luca Guadagnino’s drama A Bigger Splash (2015), the romantic comedy How to Be Single (2016), the supernatural horror film Suspiria (2018), the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), the coming-of-age film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), Maggie Gyllenhaal’s psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), and Cooper Raiff’s Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022).

She has received various awards and nominations, including a People’s Choice Award, and nominations for a BAFTA Award and two MTV Movie & TV Awards. She was also featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2016.

Net worth

Dakota Johnson has an impressive net worth of $14 Million dollars.

Personal Life

Johnson was previously involved in long-term relationships with Noah Gersh and actor Jordan Masterson. She dated Matthew Hitt, the lead vocalist of Welsh indie rock band Drowners, intermittently for almost two years until 2016. She has been in a relationship with Coldplay’s vocalist Chris Martin since October 2017. y reside in Malibu, California.

Johnson is a tattoo enthusiast and has been named a brand ambassador for luxury fashion brand Gucci. In 2018, she collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the Time’s Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination.

FAQs

Did Dakota and Jamie date?

Dakota and Jamie insisted in multiple interviews that they were just actors doing their jobs, which was being sexy on screen.

How much money is Chris Martin worth?

Chris Martin is worth a whopping sum of $160 million.

What did Dakota Johnson’s parents think of their daughter’s role in Fifty Shades of Grey?

Hollywood stars Donb Johnson and Melanie Griffith did not want their daughter to play the role. However, they respected their daughter’s choices and accepted her to play the role of Anatasia Steele.

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