Kristen Stewart

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Kristen Stewart
Stewart at Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards, December 2007
Born	Kristen Jaymes Stewart April 9, 1990 (1990-04-09) (age 18) Los Angeles, California

Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Panic Room, Catch That Kid, Speak, Zathura, The Messengers, In the Land of Women, and the critically acclaimed Into the Wild. She recently finished filming Twilight.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.^[1][2][3] Her father, John Stewart (not to be confused with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart), is a stage manager and television producer who worked for FOX.^[4] Her mother is a scriptwriter who comes from Australia.^[3][5] She has an older brother, Cameron. Stewart is an avid surfer^[6] and currently lives with her family in Los Angeles.

[edit] Career

She subsequently appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects where she played the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson). Stewart had a role in the major Hollywood film Panic Room, playing the sullen, diabetic daughter of a divorced mother (Jodie Foster). While the film received mixed reviews, Stewart garnered positive notices for the role.

After Panic Room's success, Stewart was cast in another thriller, Cold Creek Manor, playing the daughter of Dennis Quaid 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. 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, thirteen at the time of filming, played high school freshman Melinda Sordino who stops almost all verbal contact after being raped and has to deal with enormous amounts of emotional turmoil. Stewart has 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.

Stewart appeared in the fantasy-adventure film Zathura, In the Land of Women, a romantic drama starring Meg Ryan and Adam Brody, and in Academy Award winner Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film, Into the Wild. She will also co-star in The Cake Eaters and The Yellow Handkerchief, which was filmed in Louisiana.^[7]

On November 16, 2007, Summit Entertainment announced that Stewart will play Isabella (Bella) Swan in the upcoming movie Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire/human romance novel of the same name.^[8] She will star alongside Robert Pattinson, who will play Edward Cullen, her character's vampire boyfriend. The film began production in February of 2008 and has a release date of December 12, 2008.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Safety of Objects	Sam Jennings	limited release
2002	Panic Room	Sarah Altman
2003	Cold Creek Manor	Kristen Tilson
2004	Speak	Melinda Sordino	TV
	Catch That Kid	Maddy
	Undertow	Lila	limited release
2005	Fierce People	Maya Osbourne
	Zathura	Lisa
2007	The Messengers	Jess Solomon
	In the Land of Women	Lucy Hardwicke
	The Cake Eaters	Georgia
	Into the Wild	Tracy Tatro
	Cutlass	Young Robin	short film
2008	Jumper	Sophie	cameo
	What Just Happened?	Zoe	awaiting release
	Yellow Handkerchief	Martine	awaiting release
	Adventureland	Em	post-production
	Twilight	Isabella Swan	post-production
2009	Welcome to the Rileys		pre-production

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Kristen Stewart at the Internet Movie Database