Fanning sisters

Dakota Fanning
Born: February 23, 1994
Current love interest: No one
Career:Fanning began acting at the age of five. Fanning subsequently had several guest roles on established television series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Friends, The Practice, Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle. She also portrayed the title characters of Ally McBeal and The Ellen Show as young girls. In 2001, Fanning was chosen to star opposite Sean Penn in I Am Sam, the story of a mentally retarded man who fights for the custody of his daughter (played by Fanning).
This role made Fanning the youngest person (in 2002, at age eight) ever to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, for her supporting performance. From then her career took off with movies like Man on Fire, War of the worlds, Charlotte's web etc.
Controversy: In her latest movie 'Hound dog' the most controversial scene is said to show Fanning suffering a devastating rape at the hands of an older boy who tempts her with Elvis tickets.People were concerned about such a young actress playing the role of a rape victim.

Elle Fanning
Born: April 9, 1998
Current love interest: No one
Career: Fanning began her acting career by playing the younger version of her older sister Dakota's characters in both the mini-series Taken and the movie I am Sam. In 2002, at the age of four, Fanning won her first role independent of her sister, in the comedy Daddy Day Care.
In 2003, Fanning filmed The Door in the Floor opposite Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. Anecdotal evidence of her young skill was seen in the decision to cast her in the role of Ruth in The Door in the Floor. By the end of 2006, Fanning began to book lead roles.
Controversy: None to date

The last time the Fanning sisters were in the same movie (I Am Sam), they played the same character at different ages. Now they've been cast in a new movie in which they both exist for the same character.