Just-KristenStewart

Facts

• Celeb Name:
  Kristen Stewart

• Birth Name:
  Kristen Jaymes Stewart

• Nickname:
  Kris and KStew

• Date of Birth:
  9 April 1990

• Zodiac Sign:
  Aries

• Born in:
  Los Angeles, California, USA

• Eye Color:
  Green

• Height:
  5′ 6″ [1.68 m]

• Nationality:
  American

• Profession:
  Actress

• Comes from a showbiz family:
  her grandfather was Cecil B. DeMille’s assistant director, her father worked as a producer, her mom as a screenwriter and her brother as a grip.

• Began auditioning for TV and film at age 8.

• Got her big break playing Jodie Foster’s daughter in 2002’s Panic Room.

• Kristen Stewart Relationships:
  Brother: Cameron Stewart
  Father: John Stewart
  Mother: Jules Mann-Stewart
  Boyfriend: Michael Angarano

Trivias

• Has an older brother named Cameron. They both live with their parents in the Los Angeles area.

• Her father is John Stewart, a TV Producer who works at FOX TV. Currently co-producing “On-Air with Ryan Seacrest” (2004).

• Shares her birthday, April 9, with actor Dennis Quaid who played her father in Cold Creek Manor (2003).

• Born in Los Angeles, California and then spent some of her early years in Colorado and has moved back to Los Angeles where she currently resides with her parents.

• Replaced Hayden Panettiere in Panic Room (2002).

• Supporter and member of the Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet.

• Was ranked #17 on Entertainment Weekly’s ‘30 Under 30′ the actress list. (2008).

• Had to wear brown contact lenses for Twilight (2008/I) because she has naturally green eyes while Bella’s eyes are supposed to be brown.

• Although born in Los Angeles, she was raised during some of her early years in Colorado. She moved back to LA in 2006, where she resides with her parents.

• Nominated 3 consecutive years (2003-2005) for the Young Artist Award, but never won.

• Her mother is a Script Supervisor, who hails from Australia.

• Named The Movie Fanatic’s Hottest Young Actress. (2008).

• Wants to go to college to major in literature.

• Has 3 dogs: Oz, a border collie mix, Jack and Lily who are mutts.

• Was ranked #9 on Moviefone’s ‘The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25′(2008).

• During the filming of the “Prom scene” of Twilight (2008/I), she told director Catherine Hardwicke that she didn’t like the music so she suggested the song “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” and it replaced the original songs and was put onto the soundtrack.

• Her mother is Australian.

• Reads novels by Charles Bukowski and Kurt Vonnegut.

• Owns a cat named ‘Jella’.

• Favorite book is ‘East of Eden’ by John Steinbeck.

[2009] New Moon … Isabella “Bella” Swan
[2009] K-11 … Buttlerfly
[2009] The Runaways
[2009] Adventureland … Em
[2009] Welcome to the Rileys … Mallory
[2008] Twilight …. Isabella Swan
[2008] Jumper …. Sophie
[2008] What Just Happened? …. Zoe
[2008] Yellow Handkerchief …. Martine
[2008] Cutlass …. Young Robin
[2007] Into The Wild …. Tracy
[2007] The Cake Eaters …. Georgia
[2007] The Messengers …. Jess
[2005] In The Land Of Women …. Lucy Hardwicke
[2005] Zathura: A Space Adventure …. Lisa
[2005] Fierce People …. Maya
[2004] Undertow …. Lila
[2004] Catch Tha Kid …. Mandy
[2004] Speak …. Melinda Sordino
[2003] Cold Creek Manor …. Kristen Tilson
[2002] Panic Room …. Sarah Altman
[2001] The Safety Of Objects …. Sam Jennings
[1999] The Thirteenth Year …. In which she played a bit role

APPEARANCES AS HERSELF

[2008] Entertainment Tonight / 1 Episode (Dated 9 Apr)
[2008] Into The Wild: The Story, The Characters
[2007] Hyspace / Episode # 6.23
[2007] Exhuming “The Messengers”
[2004] Shooting “Panic Room”
[2004] On-Air with Ryan Seacrest / 1 Episode (Dated 10 Feb)
[2002] The Making of “Panic Room”

COMMERCIALS

[2002] Porshe Commercial

Born April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, CA, Stewart’s family relocated briefly to Colorado before returning to L.A., where her father worked as a stage manager, producer, and director on numerous Fox television shows. Her performance in a grade school Christmas play caught the eye of an agent in the audience, who contacted her parents to gauge Stewart’s interest in becoming an actress. Both were initially opposed to the idea, but Stewart’s curiosity won them over, and at the age of eight, she began auditioning for film and television roles. Her first screen appearance came a year later in the Disney Channel TV production, “The Thirteenth Year” (1999), in which she played a bit role. A more substantial part came two years later with Rose Troche’s challenging independent drama, “The Safety of Objects” (2001), in which she played the boyish daughter of troubled single mom Patricia Clarkson.

Stewart found herself at the center of a major Hollywood production in 2002 when she replaced Hayden Panettiere as the juvenile lead in David Fincher’s “Panic Room.” Despite the presence of such veteran actors as Foster (to whom Stewart bore a remarkable physical resemblance), Forest Whitaker, and Patrick Bachau, Stewart held her own and delivered an assured performance that led some critics to compare her to the film’s lead during her child actor days. Following “Panic Room,” Stewart signed on to play the daughter of Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone in another suspenseful project, Mike Figgis’ “Cold Creek Manor” (2003). However, it fared poorly with
audiences. Her next role was her first as a leading actress – “Catch That Kid” (2004) was a breezy, teen-friendly caper, with Stewart as a young mountain-climbing aficionado who orchestrates a high-tech bank robbery to pay for an operation for her gravely ill father. A minor hit with younger audiences, it allowed Stewart a chance to show a lighter side of her acting talents than her previous efforts. Stewart’s other film from 2004 was the psychological drama “Undertow,” which despite an acclaimed director, David Gordon Green, Terrence Malick as producer and a cast led by Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, and Dermot Mulroney, it received almost no theatrical screentime.

Stewart’s next film, “Speak” (2005), which was based on the best-selling novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, gave her the opportunity to play both the dark and the light in the same project. She
played Melinda, a high school freshman who stops almost all verbal communication after being raped by an upperclassman, but retains a vivid and often sardonic running commentary in her head. Stewart handled the complexities of the character with her customary skill. Unfortunately, the film did not receive a theatrical release and instead aired on Showtime and Lifetime, in an edited form.

Stewart then segued into Jon Favreau’s underrated space fantasy “Zathura” (2005), which, despite requiring her to remain in a state of suspended animation for part of the film, gave her another showcase for her comic skills, as the perpetually exasperated older sister of Josh Hutcherson and Jonah Bobo. Even though critics found much to love about “Zathura,” it too was an underperformer in terms of ticket sales.

In 2006, Stewart starred in the Canadian feature “Fierce People,” a drama by actor-director Griffin Dunne, about a troubled masseuse (Diane Lane) who arranges for a better life for her teenage son and herself, but with unfortunate results. The picture received a limited release in the United States. She followed this with nother starring role in “The Messengers” (2007), a supernatural film from noted Thai genre filmmakers and brothers Danny and Oxide Pang. Despite the directors’ reputation with horror audiences, it was critically panned and largely ignored by moviegoers.

After “The Messengers,” Stewart worked on no less than six pictures including “In the Land of Women” (2007), with Meg Ryan and Adam Brody, and “What Just Happened?” (2008), a Hollywood drama based on the book by producer Art Linson, starring Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, and Sean Penn. Stewart also found time for smaller projects like Mary Stuart Masterson’s directorial debut “The Cake Eaters” (2007), in which she played a young woman with a debilitating disease.