Although Dakota’s younger sister, Elle Fanning, has maintained her place in the spotlight thanks to playing Catherine in Hulu's The Great, Dakota is still continuing to work in the industry. While she hasn’t taken on major blockbuster roles like she used to, Dakota likely has the luxury to pick and choose what she wants to work on, so she’s focused most of her time on indie passion projects.

In 2012, Dakota began this trajectory by starring in Night Moves alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard. But in more recent years, Dakota has taken on a wide berth of projects. From 2019–2021, she voiced Miranda Worth in the Gen:Lock web series, and in 2022, she played Susan Ford Bales in The First Lady.

Now, Dakota’s coming off of starring in The Equalizer 3 as Emma Collins. She’s in two television series set to premiere in 2024 — she’ll play Marge Sherwood in Ripley and Abby Winbury in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple, an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s mystery novel.