Dakota Fanning says Tom Cruise ‘sends her a birthday gift every year’ as special gifts led to massive collection

DAKOTA Fanning has revealed that Tom Cruise sends her a gift every year on her birthday.

While appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Ripley actress admitted that the gifts generated a huge collection.

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During the interview, Kelly, 42, mentioned that Dakota, 30, recently celebrated a birthday.

“We’ve known you since you were so little, so I feel like you’ve grown up in front of us,” she told The Watchers star.

She continued: “I thought that was amazing, every year on your birthday, Tom Cruise still sends you a gift on your birthday.”

Dakota and Tom, 61, starred together in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 sci-fi action thriller War of the Worlds.

The Top Gun: Maverick actor played Ray Ferrier and Dakota starred as his estranged daughter, Rachel.

The child actress turned Hollywood star stated that she turned 11 during the filming of the film and Tom gifted Dakota her first cell phone on that birthday.

“It was a Motorola Razr… I wanted a Razr so bad and I must have talked about it a lot because that’s what he gave me,” she told Kelly.

Dakota added, “What a great memory.”

Kelly asked the Equalizer 3 actress, “What did he send you this year?”

“He always sends me the same thing every year,” Dakota replied.

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She continued: “After the cell phone, I loved shoes when I was little and I started being able to put on really small adult shoes when I was on the War of the Worlds press tour, so I was really excited about them.

“So from that birthday onwards he always sends me shoes.”

Kelly replied: “You must have a huge shoe collection brought by Tom Cruise.”

CHILD ACTRESS

At age seven, Dakota received widespread recognition for playing Lucy Diamond Dawson, the daughter of an intellectually disabled man in I Am Sam (2001), directed by Sean Penn.

It was a Motorola Razr… I wanted a Razr so bad and I must have talked about it a lot because that’s what he gave me.”

Dakota Fanning on Tom Cruise’s first birthday presentThe Kelly Clarkson Show

For the role, Dakota would become the youngest Screen Actors Guild Award nominee.

She continued her career by starring in the comedy Uptown Girls in 2003 and Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington, in 2004.

Last year, Dakota reteamed with Denzel on the third Equalizer film.

As mentioned, Dakota starred alongside Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds (2005) and starred alongside a CGI pig in the 2006 live-action remake of Charlotte’s Web.

In 2009, she provided the titular voice Coraline in the stop-motion cult classic.

HOLLYWOOD STAR

The same year, Dakota began taking on more mature roles by starring as Jane Volturi in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, she would revisit the role in the 2010 sequel, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and later in 2012’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. – Part 2.

She would continue to transition into more adult-oriented roles when she starred alongside Twilight lead Kristen Stewart as Floria Sigismondi in The Runaways.

“From that birthday onwards he always sends me shoes.”

Dakota FanningThe Kelly Clarkson Show

Dakota went on to act in independent films Now Is Good (2012) and Effie Gray (2014), before moving to television in 2018 to star in the period crime drama The Alienist.

In 2019, Dakota returned to the screen as Squeaky Fromme, a member of the Manson family, in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Earlier this year, Dakota starred as Marge opposite Andrew Scott’s Tom Ripely in the Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime novel The Talented Mr.

This month, the actress is promoting the release of her new supernatural horror film, The Watchers.

Dakota has a younger sister, Elle Fanning, 26, who is also an actress.

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