Kristen Stewart, best known for her role as Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga, has been a working actor since her early years in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, John Stewart and Jules Stewart, both work in film and television. Stewart has three brothers, including an older brother Cameron Stewart and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor. She is of English, Scottish, and Ashkenazi Jewish descent.
Stewart’s acting career began when she was spotted by a talent scout during a grade school performance at the age of eight. She appeared on television in a few small roles before landing her first significant role as Sam Jennings in The Safety of Objects (2001). She then starred alongside Jodie Foster in the hit drama Panic Room (2002) and was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
After her critically acclaimed performance in Panic Room, Stewart joined the cast of Cold Creek Manor (2003) and received another Young Artist Award nomination. She continued to act in a handful of movies and a Showtime movie called Speak (2004) before being cast as a teenage singer in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (2007). She won a third Young Artist Award for her role in the biopic and also appeared in Mary Stuart Masterson’s The Cake Eaters (2007) that same year.
| Born | April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Birth Name | Kristen Jaymes Stewart |
| Height | 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) |
| Parents | John Stewart , Jules Stewart |
| Relatives | Cameron Stewart (sibling) |
In 2008, Stewart took on the starring role in Twilight, based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. The film opened to fans eager to see the vampire romance brought to life, and Stewart’s portrayal of Bella earned her an MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance. She continued her role as Bella in the sequels The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), and the final installments of the series were released in 2011 and 2012.
Despite the success of the Twilight Saga, Stewart worked on several indie projects, including Adventureland (2009) and Welcome to the Rileys (2010), and played hard rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways (2010). She won the 2010 BAFTA Rising Star Award and Best Actress at the Milan International Film Festival for Welcome to the Rileys.
Stewart also appeared in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and On the Road (2012), as well as the Sundance drama Camp X-Ray (2014) and Cannes selection Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), for which she won a César Award. She starred in the Lionsgate action comedy American Ultra (2015) and delivered an acclaimed performance opposite Julianne Moore in Still Alice (2014).
Stewart continued to act in a variety of films throughout the decade, including Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016), Café Society (2016), Lizzie (2018), Seberg (2019), Charlie’s Angels (2019), and Underwater (2020). She received critical acclaim for her role in Happiest Season (2020) and earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her performance as Princess Diana in Spencer (2021). She is currently working on David Cronenberg’s thriller Crimes of the Future (2022).
Today, Stewart lives in Los Angeles, California and is recognized as one of Hollywood’s most versatile and talented actresses.
Few facts about Kristen Stewart :
Kristen Stewart, a popular actress, has an older brother named Cameron Stewart, who is a grip in television and film. She also has two adopted brothers named Dana and Taylor. Kristen grew up in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in her parents’ home. However, she spent some of her early years in Colorado and Pennsylvania before moving back to Los Angeles with her family when she was eight years old. Her father, John Stewart, is a television producer at Fox-TV who co-produced On-Air with Ryan Seacrest (2004) and worked with George Lopez at Lopez Tonight (2009) on TBS-TV. Her mother, Jules Stewart, is a script supervisor who directed her first film K-11 (2012). Kristen owns homes in Malibu and Los Feliz, both in Los Angeles, where she stays when not filming on location.
Kristen has three dogs named Bear, Bernie, and Cole, and a cat named Max/Jella. She was nominated four times for the Young Artist Award, three consecutive years (2003-05) and in 2008. She was ranked #17 on Entertainment Weekly’s “30 Under 30” actress list in 2008, and named the Movie Fanatic’s Hottest Young Actress the same year. Kristen replaced Hayden Panettiere as Sarah Altman in Panic Room (2002) just before shooting began. She had to wear brown contact lenses for the first four Twilight (2008) movies because she has naturally green eyes while Bella’s eyes are supposed to be brown. In the fifth and final film, she wore red contacts when she was a newborn vampire and amber color contacts as she matures towards the ending of the film. Kristen’s favorite song by Joan Jett is “Love is Pain,” whom she portrayed in her film The Runaways (2010).
Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it’s not. It’s for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it’s just the most extreme version of that that I’ve ever found. It’s like running, it’s exertion. When you reach that point where you can’t go anymore and you stop and you take a breath, it’s that same sort of clearing of the mind.
Kristen Stewart
In Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Kristen sustained a foot injury and pulled a ligament in her right hand while filming an attack scene, causing production to shut down temporarily. Stewart and her Twilight co-stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner imprinted their handprints and footprints into cement in front of the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, on November 3, 2011. Kristen’s favorite horror movie is The Shining (1980), and her favorite vampire movie is The Lost Boys (1987).
Kristen played guitar and recorded her own vocal tracks for six songs used in The Runaways (2010) film and its corresponding soundtrack. She worked closely with Joan Jett before filming to perfect her mannerisms, stage presence, vocal tone, attitude, and musical skills. Jett praised Kristen’s dedication and overall performance, saying that the portrayal made her proud. Kristen landed her first American Vogue cover in January 2011 and also appeared in a photo shoot for Vogue Italia in 2011. She was ranked #1 on Forbes magazine’s list of “Hollywood’s Top-Earning Actresses in 2012,” with an estimated income of $34.5 million between May 2011 and May 2012.
