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Twilight star Dakota Fanning’s younger sister, Elle Fanning, is slowly becoming her own persona and one of the most promising young actress. The 12 year-old looked like a very beautiful young lady at the 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California on Friday (January 14)- more pictures below.

The 12 year-old star is being recognized by her fantastic work in Sofia Coppola’s 2010 award-winning drama “Somewhere”, but she has an incredible credit list, which includes movies like “Déjà Vu”, “Babel” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. The Fanning girls’ got talent!

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Elle Fanning has grabbed a plum part in director Sofia Coppola’s latest film Somewhere. Dakota’s younger sister is poised to shine on her own in the father/daughter drama set in Los Angeles. Fanning is the 11 year-old Cleo, who gives her father (played by Stephen Dorff) a reason to change. Here is the official synopsis:

Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel.  His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans.  Cocooned in this celebrity-induced artificial world, Johnny has lost all sense of his true self.

Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly shows up and unwittingly begins to anchor him.  Johnny’s fragile connection to real life slowly revives in her presence. So when the time comes for Cleo to leave, his sense of loss is palpable, but the gift of hope she has also brought him leads to a beautiful, poetic denouement imbued with all of Coppola’s remarkable powers to conjure mood and atmosphere.

Quiet and understated, Coppola’s movies are magnificent hidden gems to discover and she brings out wonderful performances in the actors she casts (think Scarlett Johannson and Bill Murray in Lost In Translation.) I look forward to seeing Elle and Stephen light up the screen. Check out the trailer below.