Hollywood actress Dakota Johnson says sleep is her number one priority in life

Hollywood actress Dakota Johnson said if she gets less than 10 hours of sleep a night she can’t function properly. The actress also shared that she can easily sleep for 14 hours straight, reports People magazine. The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ actress told the ‘Wall Street Journal’, “Sleep is my number one priority in life.” She also explained that she doesn’t have a scheduled wake-up time every day.

Instead, she plans her sleep routine on a day-by-day basis. “If I’m not working, if I have a day off on a Monday, then I will sleep as long as I can,” she said, quoted by People. In addition to getting enough sleep, Dakota said she works out five days a week — a mix of hot yoga, pilates and body weight training. The actress also meditates twice every day. “I do transcendental meditation,” she continued.

“I’ve been really into breathwork recently and that’s been helping me a lot with anxiety.” Mental health is something that the actress has not shied away from talking about. In a 2020 interview with Marie Claire, Dakota opened up about dealing with depression since her teenage years. “That was when, with the help of professionals, I was like, ‘Oh, this is a thing I can fall into.’ But I’ve learned to find it beautiful because I feel the world. I guess I have a lot of complexities, but they don’t pour out of me.

I don’t make it anyone else’s problem,” she told the outlet. Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, she made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in Crazy in Alabama (1999) with her mother. After graduating high school, she began auditioning for roles in Los Angeles and was cast in a minor part in The Social Network (2010).

Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role of Anastasia Steele in the erotic Fifty Shades film series (2015–2018). In 2016, she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and was featured in a Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Johnson’s profile grew with roles in the crime drama Black Mass (2015), the drama A Bigger Splash (2015), the romantic comedy How to Be Single (2016), the horror film Suspiria (2018), the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), the coming-of-age film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), and the romantic drama Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022).

She also produced the last of these under her company TeaTime Pictures. Dakota Mayi Johnson was born on October 4, 1989, at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, to actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her father was shooting the film The Hot Spot (1990) in Texas when she was born.

Her maternal grandparents are advertising executive and former child actor Peter Griffith and actress Tippi Hedren. She is a niece of actress Tracy Griffith and production designer Clay A. Griffith. Her former stepfather is Spanish actor Antonio Banderas. Johnson has six half-siblings: on her mother’s side, she has one half-brother, Alexander Bauer (1985), and one half-sister, Stella Banderas (1996); on her father’s side, she has three half-brothers — Jesse (1982), Jasper (2002), and Deacon (2006) — and one half-sister, Grace Johnson (1999).

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