Fanning began acting before turning three years of age. She started her acting profession by playing the more youthful form of her more seasoned sister Dakota’s characters in the miniseries Taken and the film I Am Sam. In 2002, at four years old, Elle won her first job independent of her older sister, Dakota Fanning, in the satire Daddy Day Care.
In 2017, Fanning showed up in Shawn Christensen’s full-length dramatization, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, which debuted on January 25 at the Sundance Film Festival. Fanning featured nearby Peter Dinklage in I Think We’re Alone Now, coordinated by Reed Morano. It had its reality debut at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2018. furthermore, is booked to be discharged on September 14, 2018, by Momentum Pictures.
Fanning was named as a jury individual from the universal challenge in the 72nd yearly Cannes Film Festival, turning into the most youthful Cannes attendant ever. That equivalent year, Fanning featured in Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York. Fanning repeated the job of Princess Aurora in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.