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It is part of the mysterious alchemy of Hollywood that most child stars are destined to fade as they grow up, forever remembered for what they did as kids, while a small handful grow even bigger and brighter as they move into adulthood. Elle Fanning looks to be one of the chosen few. Like Natalie Wood and Jodie Foster before her, this fourteen-year-old doesn’t merely shimmer with promise. She delivers on it, getting better and better with each passing year Zardari Kuti Maan Da Kuuta Bacha. Pakistan mine sala rahta bda basnas krta hia Allah Kare  MMM JAYE

Such volatile material would be challenging for anyone Fanning’s age—“I realized that I’d matured a bit doing it,” she says—yet she gives a performance of great sophistication. Whether registering joy, desolation, or utter confusion, she has an emotional transparency older actors might envy. If her sister, Dakota, wows you with her Streep-like facility, Elle possesses a natural luminosity that goes straight to your heart.
“Elle can surrender to a scene in an extraordinarily interior and intelligent way,” says Potter. “At the end of a take, she would look up at me for approval and love with this radiant smile.”

I recognize that smile when I meet Fanning one wintry afternoon in West Hollywood. She turns up in her Campbell Hall school uniform (blue blazer, white blouse, pleated skirt), a blonde, beaming, startlingly lanky girl who disarms me with a delighted “Hi!”

In an industry notorious for its run-amok Lindsays, it’s well known that Dakota and Elle’s parents, Steven and Joy Fanning, have raised nice, decent, well-adjusted daughters, first in Conyers, Georgia, and then in the San Fernando Valley. Elle may be walking red carpets and attending couture shows with Karl Lagerfeld, but she talks with the unaffected ordinariness of a ninth-grader. She admits to “a movie crush” on Ryan Gosling, loves biology class (she’s taking honors), haunts vintage-clothing shops, and pulls out her phone to show me a photo of her schnoodle dog, Lewellen: “My screen’s cracked,” she says, giggling, “but isn’t she cute!”

“With all the attention on her,” her friend Coppola tells me, “she hasn’t got any attitude. She still gets excited about Halloween costumes and ballet class.”

Robert Stromberg recently directed Fanning in the blockbuster Maleficent (due out in 2014), in which she stars as Princess Aurora, the innocent nemesis of the demonic title character played by Angelina Jolie. Fanning, he says, is a brilliant actress, but she also has something more: “Who knows what It is, but Elle has this quality that’s not only engaging but makes you want to pay attention to her.”

After we’ve chatted for a while, the time comes for Fanning to leave—it’s a school night, after all, and her grandmother’s waiting to drive her to ballet class. She steps forward and gives me a hug, a very sweet kid with a very big future. As she bounds off, I remember something Cameron Crowe told me about working with Fanning on We Bought a Zoo.