10 Fun Facts About Dakota Johnson That May Leave You Lost For Words
Dakota Johnson’s acting career so far is connected heavily to the steamy Fifty Shades trilogy, with the first film Fifty Shades of Grey being the solid launching pad for her blooming career. Since then, the actress’s popularity has been skyrocketing, landing her multiple roles in big projects such as Cha Cha Real Smooth, The High Notes, and The Peanut Butter Falcon. Besides her stunning visual, Johnson’s acting skills also get better with each role, making her one of the most anticipated celebrities.in the industry at just 33 years of age.
The actress is mostly known for her role as Anastasia in Fifty Shades trilogy, but if you decide to put it all aside, there is still much more to her than meets the eye that you might not know yet. Dakota Johnson is an actress with an interesting life behind the scene, and we are going to learn more about her right away.
#1. Her family is of Hollywood royalty.
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The acting talent runs in the blood of Johnson, as her parents, Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, are both professional actors in Hollywood. Even her grandmother, Tippi Hedren, is another famous actress that stars in The Birds. After Johnson’s parents parted ways in 1996, her mother remarried Antonio Banderas, who’s also a well-known actor. Dakota has every chance to learn from the best.
#2. She started acting at a very young age.
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Despite her most notable role in Fifty Shades of Grey, Dakota Johnson actually started acting way back in 1999 in the comedy-drama movie Crazy in Alabama, when she was just 10 years old. The film was directed by Antonio Banderas – her stepfather, and the actress played the daughter of her real-life mother – Melanie Griffith. The cast also includes her half-sister Stella Banderas, so the movie as a whole was pretty much just a family get-together.
#3. Dakota used to be a model.
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With her relatively ideal height of 5’6, Dakota signed a modeling deal back in 2006, when she was 17 years old, shooting campaigns and commercials for a few brands here and there. However, her priority is still becoming an actress, so the actress quit shortly afterward to focus on her acting career.
#4. She’s actually not a brunette.
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It’s easy to have these kinds of assumptions when we see Dakota’s movies, especially the Fifty Shades franchise, where she dyed her hair brown to match the character. In fact, Dakota is a natural blonde, as shown in one of her old photos.
#5. She used to have a drug addiction.
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When she was just 17, no less. Her family at the time, both Griffith and Banderas were struggling with addiction themselves, so all of them went to rehab. The treatment was a success, and Dakota manages to keep away from temptation until this day, and as a result, her career reaches a new height.
#6. She’s lowkey anti-social media.
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Of course, as a celebrity, Dakota has different accounts on Instagram or Twitter, she just rarely posts anything on them and doesn’t feel the need to explain why either. For example, her last post on Instagram was nearly a month ago, and there are only 13 posts on her feeds in total, but the actress still easily gains over 5 million followers on this platform.
#7. She has a knack for dancing.
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When Dakota was young, she was a talented dancer and is capable of many genres, including ballet. Maybe that’s why the 50 Shades star didn’t have much trouble playing the dancer Suzy Bannion in Suspiria (2018), which requires a lot of dancing and complicated movements.
#8. She is a tattoo lover.
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Like many other superstars, Dakota Johnson also owns a vast collection of ink on her body. In the Fifty Shades trilogy, where the character has to reveal her body a lot, these tattoos were covered up temporarily so she can play the role.
#9. Her BFF is Elvis’s granddaughter.
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Dakota prefers to keep her circle close, but some of her friends are also famous celebrities. Riley Keough is the most famous out of them, being the granddaughter of the King of Rock ‘n Roll himself, Elvis Presley. You can often see the duo together doing best-friend things on the street, and feel the close bond between them.
#10. She stole some...sensitive props from the 50 Shades of Grey set.
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One of the more embarrassing yet fun stories about Dakota Johnson is that she used to steal props from the set of 50 Shades of Grey. Since the movie revolves around sexual matters, the tools she stole were quite…steamy as well. The actress admitted that she stole a flogger, and some revealing undergarments from the drawer as a keepsake, so that she could “remember her time working on the project.”
Of course, the film crew didn’t have any problem with it, and even let her keep the “props” at the end. The movie was a box office success, after all, despite the controversial speculation around it.
Are there any more fun facts about Dakota Johnson that we forgot to mention? Which do you think is her best movie? Let us know in the comments.