Though most well-known for her role as Bella Swan within the Twilight saga, Kristen Stewart has been a working actor since her early years in Los Angeles, California. Her dad and mom, John Stewart and Jules Mann-Stewart, both work in film and television. Her mother is Australian. The household contains three boys, her older brother Cameron Stewart, and two adopted brothers Dana and Taylor.
After a talent scout caught her grade college performance in a Christmas play at the age of eight, she appeared on tv in just a few small roles. Her first vital role came when she was cast as Sam Jennings in The Security of Objects (2001). Quickly after that, she starred alongside Jodie Foster within the hit drama, Panic Room (2002) and was nominated for a Younger Artist Award.
Praised for her Panic Room efficiency, she went on to join the cast of Cold Creek Manor (2003) because the daughter of Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone. Although the film did not do properly on the box office, she acquired one other nomination for a Younger Artist Award. After appearing in a handful of movies and a Showtime movie referred to as Converse (2004), Stewart was cast in the role of a teenage singer residing in a commune in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007), a critically acclaimed biopic. A third Younger Artist Award nomination resulted in a win for this role. She additionally appeared in Mary Stuart Masterson's The Cake Eaters (2007) that very same year.
Simply 18, Stewart took on the starring position in Twilight (2008/I) opposite Robert Pattinson who plays the vampire lead, Edward Cullen. Based on a sequence of the identical title written by Stephenie Meyer, the novel already had an enormous following and the film opened to followers anxious to see the vampire romance brought to life. Awarded the MTV Movie Award for Finest Feminine Performance, Stewart's flip as Bella continued within the sequels New Moon (2009) and Eclipse (2010/I). The final installments of the collection start filming in late 2010.
Rocketed into stardom with the Twilight movies, Stewart has continually shrunk from the spotlight. She's additionally taken on a variety of indie projects akin to Adventureland (2009) (filmed previous to the Twilight series) and Welcome to the Rileys (2010). And she took on the daunting activity of playing rocker Joan Jett in Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways (2010) alongside Dakota Fanning. Though most critics heaped praised on Fanning for her poignant efficiency as Cherie Currie, Stewart additionally obtained reward for her acting and musical performances.
One in every of Stewart's subsequent large initiatives is the upcoming film adaptation of the traditional novel by Jack Kerouac, On the Street (2011), in which she'll star as Marylou. Capturing begins in the summer of 2010.
