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.

Filmography

• 2026Flesh Impact — Marilyn Monroe
• 2026Patient Zero
• 2026Verity — Lowen Ashleigh, Executive Producer
• 2025Materialists — Lucy
• 2025Splitsville — Julie, Producer
• 2024Am I OK? — Lucy, Producer
• 2024Daddio — Girlie, Producer
• 2024Loser Baby — Director, Producer
• 2024Madame Web — Cassandra Webb
• Slip — Executive Producer
• 2023The Disappearance of Shere Hite — Shere Hite (voice), Executive Producer
• 2022Cha Cha Real Smooth — Domino, Producer
• 2022Persuasion — Anne Elliot
• 2021The Lost Daughter — Nina
• 2020The High Note — Maggie Sherwoode
• 2019Our Friend — Nicole Teague
• 2019The Peanut Butter Falcon — Eleanor
• 2019Wounds — Carrie
• 2018Bad Times at the El Royale — Emily Summerspring
• 2018Fifty Shades Freed — Anastasia Steele
• 2018Suspiria — Susie
• 2017Call Me by Your Name — Thanks
• 2017Fifty Shades Darker — Anastasia Steele
• 2016How to Be Single — Alice Kepley
• 2015A Bigger Splash — Penelope Lanier
• 2015Black Mass — Lindsey Cyr
• 2015Chloe and Theo — Chloe
• 2015Fifty Shades of Grey — Anastasia Steele
• 2015In a Relationship — Willa
• 2014Closed Set — Leading Lady
• 2014Cymbeline — Imogen
• 2014Date and Switch — Em
• 2014Need for Speed — Anita Coleman
• 201221 Jump Street — Fugazy
• Ben and Kate — Kate Fox
• 2012For Ellen — Cindy Taylor
• 2012Goats — Minnie
• 2012The Five-Year Engagement — Audrey
• 2012Transit — Elizabeth Becks
• 2011Beastly — Sloan Hagen
• 2010Behind the Scenes of All That Glitters — Dianica French
• 2010The Social Network — Amelia Ritter
• The Office — Dakota
• 1999Crazy in Alabama — Sondra
• A Tree Is Blue — Director, Producer
• Crackpot — Producer
• Three Incestuous Sisters — Ophile, Producer
• Trudy Blue — Producer

Appearances as themselves (16)

• Good Hang with Amy Poehler — Self - Guest
• Phoning It In — Self (voice)
• 2021The Nowhere Inn — Self
• The Drew Barrymore Show — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• El hormiguero — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• People's Choice Awards — Self - Presenter
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)