Dakota Mayi Johnson was born October 4, 1989 and she is an American actress and model.
Dakota Johnson Biography
Dakota Mayi Johnson was born on October 4, 1989, at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas .
Due to his parents’ jobs, she was spending most of his childhood in various locations with them on film sets, although he spent much time in Aspen and Woody Creek, Colorado , where she was working summers at the local market when I was a teenager.
In Woody Creek, she was a neighbor of Hunter S. Thompson , with whom her father was a longtime friend, who often came to her house in the early hours of the morning, announcing the presence of her firing a firearm.
She was attending Aspen Community School for a time. “I was so constantly discouraged and bewildered. I didn’t have an anchor anywhere,” she recalled. At a young age, she was diagnosed with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and she was changing schools seven times.
She was attending Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California for her freshman year of high school before transferring to New Roads School in Santa Monica, California.
She was becaming interested in modeling at age twelve after participating in a photo shoot with the children of other celebrities for Teen Vogue , and subsequently earned income as a model while attending high school in Santa Monica. 
She has battled depression since the age of fourteen and has checked into rehab. Johnson was interested in acting as a child, having spent much time on film sets with her parents, but they discouraged her from pursuing her profession until she graduated from high school.
After high school, she was turned down by Juilliard in New York City; her audition included a cover of a Radiohead song.
Dakota Johnson Career
In 1999, Johnson made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama, where she and her sister Stella Banderas played the daughters of their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith.
The film has been directed by her then-stepfather, Antonio Banderas. In 2006, she was chosen as Miss Golden Globe 2006, where she was serving as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in Globes history.
In 2006, she was signing with IMG Models. Although acting is her main job, she has since modeled for the MANGO brand’s jeans line in 2009 and she shot the “Rising Star” campaign for Australian fashion brand Wish in 2011.
Once she was graduating from high school, she was taking acting classes with teacher Tom Todoroff until 2008.
She signed with the William Morris Agency and began her acting career. She appeared in a minor role as Amelia Ritter in the Oscar-nominated hit film The Social Network (2010), directed by David Fincher. 
She had a small role in the fantasy film Beastly (2011), followed by So Yong Kim’s drama For Ellen (2012) opposite Paul Dano and Jon Heder, about a struggling musician in in the middle of a custody battle.
Also in 2012, she had roles in the independent comedy Goats from Christopher Neil, playing a student at a preparatory school; Nicholas Stoller ‘s romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement ; and the comedy 21 Jump Street . She also played the female lead in the Chris Nelson film Date and Switch, written by Alan Yang.
In March 2012, Johnson was cast as Kate on the Fox comedy series Ben and Kate , marking her television debut.
The show has been canceled on January 25, 2013 after one season. She quickly was resuming her film career, with a small role in Need for Speed ​​(2014). In 2013, she had a role as one of the new hires in the final episode of the NBC comedy series The Office .
Cha Cha Real Smooth by Helmer Cooper Raiff and in Crackpot for director Elaine May. Additionally, Johnson signed on to star in and produce Rodeo Queens , a mockumentary series directed by Carrie Brownstein for Amazon Studios.
She will serve as executive producer on many films under TeaTime Pictures.
She will produce and star in Forever, Interrupted , in which she will play a young widow, Unfit , in which she will play Carrie Buck in a 1920s courtroom drama based on true events based on the non-fiction book Morons: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen, and Queens of the Stoned Age , based on GQ article by Suketu Mehta.
Additionally, she will star in and executive produce the Cult Following miniseries .
Her breakthrough came with her lead role as Anastasia “Ana” Steele in the erotic romantic drama film Her breakthrough came with her lead role as Anastasia “Ana” Steele in the erotic romantic drama film Fifty Shades of Grey , which was released in February 2015 and brought her international acclaim. , which was released in February 2015 and brought her international acclaim.
She won the role over Lucy Hale, Felicity Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Danielle Panabaker, and Shailene Woodley. In response to questions about her stance on gender rights regarding her character in the Fifty Shades film series, Johnson said, “I’m proud of the film.
I completely disagree with people who think Ana is weak. I think actually stronger than him. Everything she does is her decision. And if I can advocate for women to do what they want to do with their bodies and not be ashamed of what they want, then I’m all for it.”
On February 15, 2015, she was appearing on Saturday Night Live ‘s 40th anniversary special and hosted SNL on February 28, 2015, becoming the second daughter of a former SNL host (after Gwyneth Paltrow, whose mother Blythe Danner hosted during the series’ seventh season in 1982) to host the show.
Also in 2015, she reunited with her 21 Jump Street cast member Johnny Depp playing the mother of her character’s son in the film Black Mass .
Jessica Kiang of IndieWire said that she “does something out of nothing” in her role. In 2015, Johnson starred in the thriller A Bigger Splash from Luca Guadagnino, alongside Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Ralph Fiennes.
Writing for Rolling Stone , Peter Travers stated that Johnson showed that his character “has more on his mind than gliding seductively”. According to Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com : ” A Bigger Splash allows Johnson to be funnier and sexier than she was in Fifty Shades of Grey .”
The same year saw the release of Cymbeline , a modern film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play, in which she starred opposite Ethan Hawke and Ed Harris.
She also played a lead role in the 2016 comedy How to Be Single , with Leslie Mann and her Date and Switch co-star Nicholas Braun. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2016.
Dakota Johnson Nude
American Dakota Johnson is preparing 50 Shades Darker topless. The 25-year-old actress stars on the cover of Another magazine , in which she poses nude while covering her nipples.
Although her first big role was Anastasia Steele in her film adaptation of the bestselling 50 Shades of Grey , she has revealed in the inside pages of Another that she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks when facing castings. “Sometimes I panic to the point where I don’t know what I’m thinking or doing. They give me anxiety attacks,” the artist explained.
In addition to talking about her fears in this publication, Dakota Johnson has recounted what it was like to grow up surrounded by celebrities (remember that she is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson). “I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and cars. And really amazing and weird people,” says the young woman.
Dakota Johnson Movies
She was cast in a minor role in The Social Network (2010), and subsequently had supporting roles in the sitcom 21 Jump Street , the independent comedy Goats , and the romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement (all 2012).
In 2015, Johnson had her first leading role as Anastasia Steele in the Fifty Shades film series (2015-2018). For her performance in the series, she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2016.
Following Fifty Shades , she appeared in the crime biopic Black Mass (2015), Luca Guadagnino ‘s drama film A Bigger Splash (2015), and the romantic comedy film How to Be Single (2016). 
She is reunited with Guadagnino, playing the title role in Suspiria (2018), a supernatural horror film based on Dario Argento ‘s 1977 film . That same year, she appeared in an ensemble cast of the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale .
In 2019, Johnson had leading roles in the psychological horror film Wounds and the comedy-drama film The Peanut Butter Falcon .
Dakota Johnson Net Worth
Due to her career as a model and actress, Johnson has a net worth of $14 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth .
Dakota Johnson Siblings
Her grandparents from mother side are advertising executive and former child actor Peter Griffith and actress Tippi Hedren , and she is the niece of actress Tracy Griffith and production designer Clay A. Griffith. Her former stepfather is actor Antonio Banderas .
Johnson has six half-siblings: On her mother’s side, she has a half-brother, Alexander Bauer, and a half-sister, Stella Banderas; On his father’s side, he has three half-brothers —Jesse , Jasper, Deacon—and a half-sister, Grace Johnson. 
Dakota Johnson And Chris Martin
She has been in a relationship with British musician and singer Chris Martin since October 2017. They reside in Malibu, California.
Dakota Johnson Parents
She is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith . Her father was filming the movie The Hot Spot in Texas when she was born.
Dakota Johnson Private Life
She was involved in long-term relationships with American musician Noah Gersh and American actor Jordan Masterson.
She dated Matthew Hitt, the lead vocalist of the Welsh indie rock band Drowners, on and off for nearly two years until 2016. 
Johnson is a tattoo enthusiast. In 2020, she supported the “defund the police” movement.
She was named an ambassador for the luxury fashion brand Gucci.
In November 2020, it was announced that she was becoming an investor and co-creative director of Maude, a sexual wellness brand.
