Child actress Dakota Fanning has signed on to star in the animated movie Coraline in which she will voice the main character, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The movie, to be directed by Henry Selick is based on the book by Neil Gaiman about a girl who discovers a door in her house that leads to an alternate version of her life.
Fanning, 11, is currently starring in Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story. She had her breakout role opposite Sean Penn in 2001's I Am Sam and went on to star with Denzel Washington in Man on Fire, Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds and Robert DeNiro in Hide and Seek.
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