Biography

Kristen Jaymes Stewart who was born April 9th 1990 is an American film and television actress. She is known for roles in films such as Panic Room, Zathura, In the Land of Women, Adventureland, Into the Wild, The Messengers and Twilight.

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

Love her or loathe her, Kristen Stewart is here to stay. Kristen garners the scorn of millions of jealous Twilight fans who envy her lofty position as Edward’s leading lady, Bella, but Kristen is no new face to the acting scene. She was discovered at the age of eight when an agent caught her singing performance at her elementary school Christmas play. Her parents were initially reluctant to let her work in the industry, but Kristen was quick to convince them: “I guess I was steadfast,” she says.

Her debut role wasn’t very impressive—she played “Girl Waiting to get a Drink” in the Disney Channel movie, The Thirteenth Year, but three years later, Kristen hit the big time with roles in the serious adult drama, The Safety of Objects and the claustrophobic thriller, Panic Room. In 2004, Kristen’s character, Maddy Phillips, tries to rob a bank alongside Corbin Bleu and Max Theiriot in her first kids movie role in Catch That Kid and in 2005, she acted in Zathura, as Lisa, the older sister whose brothers play a magical board game that hurtles their house into space.

But it was her role on Twilight that catapulted Kristen onto the pages of celebrity gossip mags and onto the coveted Hollywood A list. She’s wrapping up filming of New Moon in Vancouver then it’s off to shoot The Runaways, a bio-pic of the 70’s rock band and its infamous frontwoman, Joan Jett. Kristen got to meet Joan Jett on New Year’s Eve: “We were in a little city in Washington and she played through midnight,” Kristen says. “And then we spent, like, hours into the morning talking.” There are even rumors that Kristen will sing in the movie!

Sources: Wikipedia & kidzworld.