Dakota Johnson

Daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.

Two maternal half-siblings: Alexander Bauer (son of Steven Bauer and Melanie Griffith ) and Stella Banderas (daughter of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith ).

Four paternal half-siblings: Jesse Johnson (son of Don Johnson and Patti DArbanville ), Grace Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger), Jasper Johnson and Deacon Johnson.

Ex-stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas.

Born in Austin, Texas and Melanies OB GYN was Noble Doss. Pictures of Melanie can be seen in Dr. Dosss photo album in his office.

She is the third generation to be involved with the Golden Globes, as she was Miss Golden Globe in 2006, is the daughter of Don Johnson (Golden Globe winner for "Miami Vice" ) and Melanie Griffith (Golden Globe winner for Working Girl ), and granddaughter of Tippi Hedren (Golden Globe winner for Most Promising Newcomer, 1964).

She denied that she was in a 30-day rehab program at the Visions Teen Treatment Center in Malibu, CA, for drug and alcohol addiction in September 2007. She said that the press misinterpreted the fact that she was in therapy as a teenager because of some issues with her parents, who have both battled substance abuse.

Niece of actress Tracy Griffith and production designer Clay A. Griffith.

Granddaughter of Peter Griffith.

She took down her Facebook profile, because she didnt like being on it, even though she acted in the hit film The Social Network which is about the origins of Facebook.

Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazines Young Hollywood Issue.

On the audio commentary for the DVD release of The Social Network , director David Fincher said that Dakota was "wonderful" in a "pretty thankless role," since she has only one scene as Justin Timberlake s one-night stand.

Once lived with musician Noah Gersh and later with actor Jordan Masterson.

Landed the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey , the film adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, by reading a long, sexually-explicit monologue from the Ingmar Bergman film Persona . It was an unconventional choice for an audition piece, but Johnson felt that the filmmakers were looking for a leading lady who would address the sexy material in a mature, direct manner. When she advanced to screen testing she re-enacted the first and last chapters of the book with co-star Jamie Dornan.

As a child, she acted with her mother Melanie Griffith and her half-sister Stella Banderas in Crazy in Alabama , but her family wouldnt let her act again until several years later, after she graduated from high school.

She appeared in 21 Jump Street , the film version of the hit TV series "21 Jump Street" . Her aunt, Tracy Griffith , had appeared as a guest star, in 1988, on the series.

Director Sean Baker considered casting Dakota and her real-life grandmother Tippi Hedren together in his film Starlet before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.

At 27 years old in 2016, and with just a handful of credits, she has already acted with many popular sexy men in her films, such as Channing Tatum , Johnny Depp , Benedict Cumberbatch , Justin Timberlake , Aaron Paul , Alex Pettyfer , Chris Pratt , Penn Badgley , David Duchovny , Paul Dano , Jason Segel , Ralph Fiennes , Ethan Hawke , Armie Hammer , Matthias Schoenaerts , Andrew Garfield , and the late Anton Yelchin.

She affectionately calls her grandmother Tippi Hedren , "Mormor" (a Swedish word for grandmother). Tippis father was of Swedish descent. Dakotas other ancestry is English, Welsh, German, Norwegian, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Irish, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French Huguenot.

Claims that she never casually dated men, and that she always had long-term relationships with her boyfriends.

Like her grandmother Tippi Hedren , she is an animal rights activist; she saved 12 horses from being killed in 2014 by paying for them.

Her Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson recommended her to director Luca Guadagnino , who cast her in A Bigger Splash , his remake of La piscine in the role originated by Jane Birkin. She was nervous replacing Margot Robbie , just days before filming, but co-star Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton calmed her down and affectionately nicknamed her "Cousin Duckie". Guadagnino once again cast both Dakota and Tilda in the remake of Suspiria .

Prior to landing the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey , her most recognized roles included being Sean Parkers (Justin Timberlake ) one-night stand in The Social Network , a cop posing as a high school student in 21 Jump Street and a neurotic ex-girlfriend in The Five-Year Engagement . All three roles are considered by many to be scene stealing, but they totaled less screen time than the average music video.

She did not tell anyone about being involved in the auditioning process for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey . She has said that if the project fell through or she wasnt selected, she didnt want to have to explain herself or the process repeatedly. After she was cast, she couldnt tell anyone for weeks as the studio prepared an official casting announcement.

After being selected for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey , she screen-tested with over 20 actors before the studio decided on who to cast as Christian Grey.

She replaced Abby Elliott as a young, single mother named Kate on the short-lived Fox sitcom, "Ben and Kate" . The show lasted only 16 episodes before being canceled. The final three episodes were never aired in the US.

She started an exercise routine to prepare for Fifty Shades of Grey , but not just because she wanted to look good on screen. She wanted Anastasia to have the appearance of an average, active college student.

She had to apply body make-up to cover her tattoos for Fifty Shades of Grey . Her tattoos are visible in every other project and photo shoot she has done.

She auditioned in front of Judd Apatow for a role in HBOs "Girls" but was not selected. He later recommended her for a small role as a neurotic, sex-obsessed girlfriend named Audrey in The Five-Year Engagement , which he produced. (Her performance as Audrey caught the attention of Jake Kasdan who cast her as a last-minute replacement in "Ben and Kate" .) She became friends with Apatows wife Leslie Mann when they worked together in the film How to Be Single . In fact, it was Mann who presented Dakota with both the Calvin Klein Spotlight Award in 2015 and the Peoples Choice Award in 2016.

She reportedly beat out Alicia Vikander , Elizabeth Olsen , Shailene Woodley , Lucy Hale , Chloe Bridges Felicity Jones , Kristen Stewart , and her Need for Speed co-star Imogen Poots to land the role of Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Grey .

She did not use a body double for any scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey except for one BDSM scene. A double was used for a scene involving her character Anastasia being whipped with a belt. Johnson did not want to participate in the scene to avoid personal injury and to avoid her body being marked in any way.

Whenever she is truly laughing she cries. She has stated that it has become a nuisance on film sets because she has to constantly have her make-up touched up in between takes.

Announced during the "Saturday Night Live" 40th Anniversary special on February 15, 2015 that she was set to host "SNL" on February 28, 2015.

Attended the New Roads School in Santa Monica, CA, for three years.

Has said her biggest sacrifice was accepting the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey because the entire world can see her completely naked.

Three things she always carries in her purse: keys, Chap-Stick and candy.

Her favorite song, on the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, is "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones.

She took a flogger and several pairs of underwear from the set of Fifty Shades of Grey . She said the underwear was too comfortable to leave behind.

Her favorite book is the 1955 novel,"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. Her real-life mother Melanie Griffith played Lolitas mother in the 1997 film adaptation Lolita .

Was a presenter at the 87th annual Academy Awards on February 22, 2015. Johnson attended the ceremony with her mother, Melanie Griffith.

Has been in an off-and-on relationship with Welsh model Matthew Hitt since 2014.

Has collaborated with Nicholas Braun thrice: they appeared together in Date and Switch , in the short film In a Relationship , and in How to Be Single . They played a struggling young couple all three times.

Despite the fact that there have been continuous rumors stating she did not get along with her Fifty Shades of Grey co-star Jamie Dornan and vice versa, the two are actually on good terms with one another. She thanked him in her acceptance speech when she won the Peoples Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress by stating that she "couldnt have done it without you".

In 2016, she said that she regretted getting most of her tattoos, because it takes a long time to cover them up for her movie roles. The only tattoo that she doesnt regret is a quote from Aldous Huxleys Island that reads "Lightly my darling" inked in white, which matches the one her half-sister Stella Banderas has, too.

Several people have chosen to work repeatedly with Dakota because of her beauty, talent, and professionalism: producers Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti ( The Social Network and the Fifty Shades trilogy); actor Johnny Depp ( 21 Jump Street and Black Mass ), actor Nicholas Braun ( Date and Switch , In a Relationship , How to Be Single ), writer Dana Fox ( "Ben and Kate" , How to Be Single ), actor Max Minghella ( The Social Network and the short film "Just a Minute" ).

She dropped out of the film Under the Silver Lake because of scheduling conflicts, and her role went to her close friend Riley Keough. She had been a bridesmaid at Keoughs wedding to Ben Smith-Petersen in 2015.

Dakota deleted her private social media Instagram account and stopped posting pictures on her public account due to negative comments from internet trolls.

She drives an 1995 F-150 her grandpa gave her that he used on his ranch in Missouri.

The one special project thats been passed down three generations in Dakotas family is J.M. Barrie s play "Mary Rose". Her grandmother Tippi Hedren was originally set to star in the film adaptation for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1964, and she was heartbroken that the film was never made, because the technology at the time wasnt able to show the title character as a ghost. Tippi gave the play to her daughter Melanie Griffith , when she was a child, who also loved it. When Melanie grew up, she too wanted to play the title character, and her then-husband Antonio Banderas to direct it, but when their production Greenmoon productions had produced flop movies like Crazy in Alabama and The Body , financing collapsed for the project. As of 2017, Dakota is the right age to play Mary Rose, but the film studios have long ago decided that the project wasnt commercial, so a film with her is also unlikely.

She claims to be ambitious. With unwavering determination, she stuck to "The Fifty Shades" trilogy even as her original leading man, Charlie Hunnam quit before filming to be replaced by Jamie Dornan in the first film, and even when director Sam Taylor-Johnson and writer Kelly Marcel declined to work on the sequels. Her ambition extended to doing nude scenes with no shame with Dornan whom she had never met before filming.

While her grandmother Tippi Hedren is a moderate Republican who wrote that President Donald J. Trump is a celebrity friend, and her mother Melanie Griffith is a liberal Democrat, Dakota has never been public about her political views. However, at the February 26, 2017 Academy Awards ceremony, she and Academy Award winner Emma Stone wore pins showing their support for Planned Parenthood in protest of President Trump and other Republicans who vowed to defund Planned Parenthood.

She is not related to her Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson , even though they share the same last name. Nevertheless, the two women share a strong bond. The director had first seen Dakota in a eye-catching cameo in The Social Network and said she wanted to know more about her, and then cast her in her star-making turn. Even though, she declined to direct the sequels, she has continued to stay in touch with Dakota and has recommended her to other directors.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even,when I was really young.

[on filming Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) ] Sometimes I did walk off,the set feeling a bit shell-shocked. The drive home from work helped me,snap out of it. And a big glass of wine.

[on post-Fifty Shades stardom] There is something very scary about,thinking everyone in the world will know who I am.

[on having doubts over accepting the role of Anastasia] Yes. Of course.

Absolutely. The whole time. Even now there are moments when I think,what the fuck have I done? But most of the time I feel pretty solid,about it.

[Fifty Shades] was like watching someone who looked a lot like me doing,really bizarre things. I was completely detached.

I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and,automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind. .