Dakota Johnson is an American film actress and daughter of actors, Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. She made her debut with the film, Crazy In Alabama (1999). Over a decade later, Johnson appeared in The Social Network (2010), Beastly (2011) and For Ellen (2012). She also starred in the films, 21 Jump Street (2012) and The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Theo (2013), Date and Switch (2014), Need for Speed (2014) and Bad Times At The El Royale. Johnson`s breakthrough came with her leading role as Anastasia "Ana" Steele in the erotic romantic drama film Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. he also played a lead in the 2016 comedy How to Be Single (2016). Johnson trained in dance to prepare for Luca Guadagnino`s Suspiria (2018), a supernatural horror film and remake of the 1977 film by Dario Argento, in which she plays an American dancer in Berlin who enrolls in an academy run by a coven of witches.

In 2019, Johnson starred in the psychological horror film, Wounds, opposite Armie Hammer, directed by Babak Anvari, based upon a horror novella The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud. She then starred in the well-reviewed independent adventure film, The Peanut Butter Falcon, opposite Shia LaBeouf and Bruce Dern. She appeared in the drama film Our Friend, opposite Casey Affleck and Jason Segel, and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. Johnson starred alongside Tracee Ellis Ross in the dramedy film The High Note (2020). In 2021, she co-starred in The Lost Daughter directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante. In 2022, she starred in an adaptation of author Jane Austen`s Persuasion. She then starred in and as Madame Web (2024) in the superhero film of the same name, set in the Spider-Man Universe.

Johnson founded the production company TeaTime Pictures, alongside Ro Donnelly, to develop film and television projects. In 2020, Johnson made her directorial debut, co-directing (with Cory Bailey) the music video for Coldplay`s "Cry Cry Cry", which featured her boyfriend Chris Martin.