DAKOTA Fanning has revealed that Tom Cruise sends her a present every year for her birthday.
While guesting on The Kelly Clarkson Show the Ripley actress admitted that the gifts have led to a massive collection.
During the interview, Kelly, 42, mentioned that Dakota, 30, recently celebrated a birthday.
"We've known you since you were so little so I feel like you've kinda grown up in front of us," she told The Watchers star.
She continued, "I found this amazing, every year on your birthday Tom Cruise still sends you, like, a present on your birthday."
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Dakota and Tom, 61, starred together in Steven Spielberg's 2005 sci-fi action thriller War of the Worlds.
The Top Gun: Maverick actor played Ray Ferrier and Dakota starred as his estranged daughter Rachel.
The child actor-turned-Hollywood star stated that she turned 11 while filming the movie and Tom gifted Dakota with her first cellphone on that birthday.
"It was a Motorola Razr... I wanted a Razr so bad and I must have been talking about it a lot because that's what he got me," she told Kelly.
Dakota added, "Such a great memory."
Kelly asked the Equalizer 3 actress, "What did he send you this year?"
"He always sends me the same thing every year," Dakota responded.
She continued, "After the cell phone, I, like, loved shoes when I was little and I started to be able to fit into really small adult shoes when I was on the War of the Worlds press tour so I was very excited about them.
"So from that birthday on he always sends me shoes."
Kelly replied, "You must have a massive shoe collection brought to you by Tom Cruise."
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CHILD ACTRESS
At seven, Dakota received wide-spread recognition for playing Lucy Diamond Dawson, the daughter of an intellectually challenged man in the Sean Penn-led I Am Sam (2001).
It was a Motorola Razr... I wanted a Razr so bad and I must have been talking about it a lot because that's what he got me."
Dakota Fanning on her first birthday gift from Tom Cruise
For the role, Dakota would become the youngest Screen Actors Guild Award nominee.
She followed up the career-making part by starring in the comedy Uptown Girls in 2003 and Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington, in 2004.
Last year, Dakota recently reteamed with Denzel in the third Equalizer movie.
As mentioned, Dakota starred alongside Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds (2005) and acted opposite a CGI pig in the live-action remake of Charlotte's Web in 2006.
In 2009, she provided the voice titular Coraline in the stop-motion cult classic.
HOLLYWOOD STAR
The same year, Dakota began to move into more mature roles as she starred as Jane Volturi in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, she would revisit the role in the 2010 sequel The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and later in 2012's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.
She would continue transitioning into more adult-orientated roles when she starred alongside Twilight's lead star Kristen Stewart in Floria Sigismondi in The Runaways.
"From that birthday on he always sends me shoes."
Dakota Fanning
Dakota went on to act in indie films Now Is Good (2012) and Effie Gray (2014), before moving to television in 2018 to star in the period crime drama, The Alienist.
In 2019, Dakota returned to the silver screen as Manson family member Squeaky Fromme in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Earlier this year, Dakota starred as Marge, alongside Andrew Scott's Tom Ripely, in the Netflix adaption of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, titled Ripley.
This month, the actress is promoting the release of her new, supernatural horror film, The Watchers.
Dakota has a younger sister, Elle Fanning, 26, who is also an actor.
