Dakota Fanning has reportedly joined the exclusive dating app Raya but insists it was just for fun. The 31-year-old Ripley star made the revelation in an interview for the October 2025 cover of Vanity Fair, alongside her sister, Elle Fanning.
Dakota explained her experience on the app after Elle joked, “She has never done this. Ever.” Dakota clarified, “My girlfriend made it for me… I was like, if I don’t, then I’m going to think—”. Elle chimed in, “Maybe my husband is there.” Dakota quickly replied, “I can confirm that he is not.”
When asked if she had come across any celebrities on the app, Dakota admitted, “I haven’t seen a ton of familiar faces yet.” Fanning has largely kept her love life private. In 2016, she candidly told Town & Country magazine that going on dates was “horrific.” “We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff,” she said. She added that she prefers to meet potential partners through friends, so she can assume “they are most likely not a freak.”
Dakota previously dated model Jamie Strachan for two years before they split in 2016. She was later linked to Henry Frye in 2018, with their last public sighting together that May.
