Actress Elle Fanning was born as Mary Elle Fanning in Conyers, Georgia, USA, on 9th April 1998 to Steven J. Fanning and Heather Joy (Arrington). A filha de pai Steven Fanning e mai Heather Joy Arrington é atriz, anno 2020 famoso por Somewhere, Phoebe in Wonderland, Super 8. Steven Fanning is an American Salesman, retired Minor League Baseball player and actor who is based in Los Angeles, California. Elle é filha de Joy Fanning, que atuou como tenista profissional, e Steve Fanning, que jogou beisebol em uma liga menor para o St. Louis Cardinals e agora trabalha como vendedor em uma eletrônica de Los Angeles. No 9-4-1998, Elle Fanning (apelido: Mary Elle Fanning) nasceu em Conyers, Georgia, USA. O seu avô materno foi o jogador de futebol americano Rick Arrington e sua tia Jill Arrington foi repórter da ESPN. In the show, Fanning will portray Catherine the Great and Hoult will assume the role of Peter III of Russia.

Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult are set to star in The Great, a mini-series for Hulu. While chatting about her new Hulu show, The Great, Elle Fanning weighed in on that Batgirl fan-casting and why it all started with Nicolas Winding Refn. She is the sister of actress Dakota Fanning. A natural beauty, Steven always manages to turn heads with his dashing appearance wherever he goes. He is more known as the father of Hollywood starlets Elle & Dakota Fanning. Fanning was born on April 9, 1998, in Conyers, Georgia, to Heather Joy (née Arrington), who played tennis professionally, and Steven J. Fanning, who played minor league baseball for teams affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles. She is of French, English, German, Irish, and Channel Islander descent.