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Melanie Griffith's Daughter: The New Working Girl

Fri., Jun. 6, 2008 11:15 AM PDT by Marc Malkin

Jeff Vespa

Another celebrity couple's offspring wants a shot at Hollywood!

Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson’s daughter, Dakota Johnson, is starting to make a name for herself in the modeling world, but what she really wants to do is—you guessed it—act.

“Everyone has that thing that sparks some sort of emotion in them,” Dakota says in the new issue of Aspen Peak magazine. “Acting does that for me.”

The 18-year-old stunner was recently shot by fashion bible Vogue after signing with modeling powerhouse agency IMG. “[It was my] first real job since I started modeling,” she says. “It was pretty surreal, the fact that I was doing Vogue. It didn’t really sink in until afterward.”

So far, it sounds like Dakota has a pretty good head on her shoulders because, she insists, she’s taking it one day at a time. “I don’t know where I’m going to be tomorrow or in a week,” she says. “I don’t know what’s going to happen, and I’m not rushing anywhere.”