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Kristen Stewart
Stewart at Hollywood Life Magazine's 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards in 2007
Born	Kristen Jaymes Stewart April 9, 1990 (1990-04-09) (age 19) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present

Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bella Swan in Twilight and New Moon, and will reprise her role in Eclipse. She has also starred in films such as Panic Room, Zathura, In the Land of Women, Adventureland, and The Messengers.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Kristen Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.¹²³ Her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox.⁴ Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a script supervisor originally from Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia.³⁵⁶⁷ She has an older brother, Cameron Stewart.⁸ Stewart attended school until the seventh grade, and then continued her education by correspondence.³ She has since completed high school.⁹

Career

Stewart's acting career began at the age of eight, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary school's Christmas play.¹⁰ Stewart's first role was a nonspeaking part in the film The Thirteenth Year.⁴ Then, she had another part in the film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas as the "ring toss girl".⁴ She subsequently appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, in which she played the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson). Stewart had a major role in the Hollywood film Panic Room, playing the diabetic daughter of a divorced mother (Jodie Foster). The film received generally positive reviews, and Stewart garnered positive notices for her performance.

After Panic Room's success, Stewart was cast in another thriller, Cold Creek Manor, playing the daughter of Dennis Quaid's and Sharon Stone's characters; the film generally failed at the box office. Her first starring role followed, in the children's action-comedy Catch That Kid, opposite Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu. Stewart also played the role of Lila in the thriller Undertow. To date, Stewart's most critically acclaimed role may be in the television film Speak (2004), based on the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. Stewart, 13 at the time of filming, played high school freshman Melinda Sordino, who stops almost all verbal contact after being raped and who deals with enormous amounts of emotional turmoil. Stewart received great praise for playing the character, who had only a few speaking lines, but kept up a dark-witted commentary inside her head throughout the film.

In 2005, Stewart appeared in the fantasy-adventure film Zathura, playing the role of Lisa, the irresponsible older sister of two little boys, who turn their house into a spacecraft hurtling uncontrollably in outer space by playing a board game. The film received praise by critics, but Stewart's performance did not garner much media attention, as it was noted that her character is immobilized during most of the film.¹¹ The following year, she played the character Maya in Fierce People, directed by Griffin Dunne. After that film, she received the lead role of Jess Solomon in the supernatural thriller film The Messengers.

In 2007, Stewart appeared as teenager Lucy Hardwicke in In the Land of Women, a romantic drama starring Meg Ryan and The O.C. star Adam Brody. The film, as well as Stewart's performance, received mixed reviews. That same year, Stewart starred in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed adaptation film Into the Wild. For her portrayal of Tracy — a teenage singer who has a crush on young adventurer Christopher McCandless — Stewart received generally positive reviews. Salon.com considered her work a "sturdy, sensitive performance",¹² and the Chicago Tribune noted that she did "vividly well with a sketch of a role."¹³ Her performance was not without detractors, however; Variety's critic Dennis Harvey wrote, "It's unclear whether Stewart means to be playing hippie-chick Tracy as vapid, or whether it just comes off that way."¹⁴ After Into the Wild, Stewart had a cameo appearance in Jumper and also appeared in What Just Happened, which was released in October 2008.¹⁵ She also co-stars in The Cake Eaters an independent film that has only been screened at film festivals.

On November 16, 2007, Summit Entertainment announced that Stewart would play Isabella "Bella" Swan in the film Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire romance novel of the same name.¹⁶ Stewart was on the set of Adventureland when director Catherine Hardwicke visited her for an informal screen test which "captivated" the director.¹⁷ She stars alongside Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen, her character's vampire boyfriend. The film began production in February 2008 and finished filming in May 2008. Twilight was released domestically on November 21, 2008.¹⁸ After the release of Twilight, Kristen Stewart was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for her portrayal as Bella Swan. Stewart reappeared as Bella in the sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and will reprise this role in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Stewart will star in a film called K-11 with Nikki Reed, also of Twilight, and Jason Mewes.⁵ The film, which is being directed by Stewart's mother, takes place in a dorm of the Los Angeles County Jail, and will feature both Stewart and Reed as male characters.⁵¹⁹ Stewart was also cast to portray Joan Jett in The Runaways, a biopic of the titular band from writer-director Floria Sigismondi.²⁰ Stewart met with Jett over the 2008-2009 New Year to prepare for the role, and ended up prerecording songs in a studio for the upcoming film.²¹ She has recently been nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star award. ²² She also stars alongside James Gandolfini in Welcome to the Rileys, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010.

In 2009 Stewart starred in The Yellow Handkerchief, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters on February 26, 2010 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.^{citation needed}

Personal life

Stewart currently lives in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. Stewart has expressed a desire to live and work in Australia, saying, "I want to go to Sydney University in Australia. My mom's from there."²³ Apart from acting, she is also interested in attending college in the near future, saying, "I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but it's not all I want to do — be a professional liar for the rest of my life."²⁴ Stewart is a guitar player and singer.²⁵

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1999	The Thirteenth Year	Girl waiting for drink26	Uncredited (film debut)
2000	The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas	Ring toss girl27	Uncredited
2001	The Safety of Objects	Sam Jennings	Limited release
2002	Panic Room	Sarah Altman	Nominated - Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress
2003	Cold Creek Manor	Kristen Tilson	Nominated - Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress
2004	Speak	Melinda Sordino
	Catch That Kid	Maddy
	Undertow	Lila	Nominated - Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress
2005	Fierce People	Maya Osbourne	Limited release
	Zathura	Lisa
2007	The Messengers	Jess Solomon
	In the Land of Women	Lucy Hardwicke
	The Cake Eaters	Georgia	Limited release
	Into the Wild	Tracy Tatro	Nominated - Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
	Cutlass	Young Robin	Short film
2008	Jumper	Sophie	Cameo
	What Just Happened	Zoe
	Twilight	Bella Swan	MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (Shared with: Robert Pattinson) Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress Drama Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liplock (Shared with: Robert Pattinson) Scream Award for Best Fantasy Actress People's Choice Award for Favourite On-Screen-Team (Shared with: Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner) Nominated - Scream Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated - People's Choice Award for Favourite Movie Actress
2009	Adventureland	Emily "Em" Lewin	Nominated - Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	Bella Swan	Nominated - BAFTA Awards: Rising Star Award
2010	The Runaways	Joan Jett	Awaiting release
	Welcome to the Rileys	Mallory	Awaiting release
	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	Bella Swan	Post-production
	The Yellow Handkerchief	Martine
	K-11	Butterfly

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kristen Stewart

• Kristen Stewart at the Internet Movie Database
• Kristen Stewart at TV.com
• Kristen Stewart at Yahoo! Movies

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NAME	Stewart, Kristen Jaymes
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DATE OF BIRTH	9 April 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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