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Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart is an American actress born on April 9^th, 1990 in Los Angeles.
Kristen Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father John Stewart is a television producer and director for Fox TV. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart is originally from Australia and a script writer.

She has three brothers: Cameron, Taylor and Dana, the last two were adopted.
She went to school until the age of 13, she started to be home-schooled, she took medication to control her hyperactivity into adulthood.

Kristen Stewart startede at the age of eight, after an agent saw her performance at the Christmas show of her elementary school. Her first role was a cameo appearance in an telefilm produced by Disney Channel. Then she played in an independent film in which she played the daughter of a single mother with (Patricia Clarkson) whom she had problems, then she played in Panic Room in 2002, she played Jodie Foster's diabetic daughter. She later played in the thriller The Devil's Throat, she played the daughter of the characters (Dennis Quaid) and (Sharon Stone) but the film failed at the box office.

Her first starring role was in action films and comedies such as The Dick and Jane alongside Max Thieriot and Corbin Blue. In 2004, then thirteen years old, Kristen Stewart played the role of a raped girl (Mélinda Sordio) facing the emotional shock of this agression. She was highly praised for her interpretation.

In 2005, Kristen Stewart appeared in the fantasy adventure film Zathura: A Space Adventure in the role of Lisa - an irresponsible big sister, two younger brothers turn their house into a spacecraft. The film received good reviews, but the performance of Kristen Stewart did not get much attention, since her character was still for most of the film. The following year, she played the role of Maya in Fierce People, directed by Griffin Dunne. After that, she received the lead role of Jess Solomon in the supernatural thriller The Messengers. The film was a commercial success but received highly negative reviews.

In 2007, Kristen Stewart appeared as the beautiful teenager Lucy Hardwicke in In the Land of Women, a romantic drama starring Meg Ryan and Adrian Brody. The film, and the performance of Kristen Stewart received mixed reviews. The same year, she starred in Into the Wild, the film adaptation of Sean Penn, highly acclaimed by critics. For her portrayal of Tracy, a young singer who succumbs to the charm of the adventurer Christopher McCandless (played by Emile Hirsch), Kristen Stewart received generally positive reviews. The Chicago Tribune noted that she had given life to the character in "a really striking way". However, the critic Dennis Harvey of Variety commented skeptically, "It is not clear if Stewart wants to play the hippie Tracy as vapid, or if it succeeds in this way". After Into the Wild, Kristen Stewart made ​​a cameo in the very last scene of the movie Jumper and also appeared in What Just Happened, which was released in 2008 and she was also the co-star in The Cake Eaters and The Yellow Handkerchief two independent films .

On November 16^th 2007, Summit Entertainment announced she would play the role of Bella Swan in the upcoming film The Twilight Saga, based on Stephenie Meyer's bestseller, dealing with a love story between a human and a vampire. She would star with British actor Robert Pattinson, who played Edward Cullen. The film began production in February 2008 and finished filming in May 2008. Twilight came out on November 20, 2008 in North America, and January 7, 2009 in France. Every actor then played major roles in other films.

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