Dakota Johnson

Dakota Johnson
Johnson at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2025
Born
Dakota Mayi Johnson

(1989-10-04) October 4, 1989
OccupationActress
Years active1999–present
PartnerChris Martin (2017–2025)
Parents
Relatives
  • Jesse Johnson (half-brother)
  • Tippi Hedren (grandmother)
  • Tracy Griffith (aunt)
AwardsFull list

Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. Her accolades include a nomination for a British Academy Film Award.

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 also 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.[1]

Johnson's 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 romantic film Materialists (2025).

  1. ^ "Dakota Johnson, 26". Forbes. Archived from the original on April 30, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.