Kristen Stewart biography

Kristen Stewart Biography…...

Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in show business, Stewart began her acting career in 1999 with uncredited roles and a minor character appearance in several films before gaining prominence in 2002 for playing Jodie Foster's daughter in the thriller Panic Room, which garnered her a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Feature Film. She went on to star in Speak (2004), Catch That Kid (2004), Zathura (2005), and Into The Wild (2007), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 when she landed the role of protagonist Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series (2008-2012), which grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

Outside of the Twilight series, Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Adventureland (2009), The Runaways (2010), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), On the Road (2012), Camp X-Ray (2014), Still Alice (2014) and Equals (2015). She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010 and was awarded the Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Welcome to the Rileys (2010). In 2015, she received critical acclaim for her role opposite Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria, for which she won a multitude of accolades, including the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first American actress to win a César Award.

Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair "Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010", with an estimated earning of $28.5 million.In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes magazine's list of "Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck".Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million.She is the "face" of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands.

Early life

Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Both of her parents work in the entertainment industry.Her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox.Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is originally from Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. She is a script supervisor and has also directed a film, the 2012 prison drama K-11, about a Los Angeles record producer who awakes from a substance abuse binge to find himself locked up in a segregated prison wing for gay and transgender inmates. She has an older brother, Cameron B. Stewart, and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor.

Stewart attended local schools until the seventh grade. As she became more involved in acting, she continued her education by correspondence until completing high school.

Career

1999–2003: Career beginnings

As she grew up with a family who worked behind the camera, Stewart thought she would become a screenwriter/director, but never considered being an actor. She recalled, "I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasn't that 'I want to be famous, I want to be an actor' kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens. I'd write my name on everything."

She began acting at 8, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary school's Christmas play. After auditioning for a year, Stewart gained her first role with a small, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV-movie The Thirteenth Year. Her next film was The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where she played the "ring toss girl". She also appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects (2001), as the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson). Stewart also played a tomboy, diabetic daughter of a divorced mother (Jodie Foster) in the film Panic Room (2002). She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance.

After Panic Room's success, Stewart was cast in another thriller, Cold Creek Manor (2003), playing the daughter of characters played by Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone. She was nominated again for a Young Artist Award for her performance.About this time in her career, she started homeschooling because of her irregular schedule.

 

International success and “The Twilight”

                                                                                                                 Filmography

 

Year	Title
2008	Twilight
1999	The Thirteenth Year
2000	The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
2001	The Safety of Objects
2002	Panic Room
2003	Cold Creek Manor
2004	Speak
2004	Catch That Kid
2004	Undertow
2005	Fierce People
2005	Zathura
2007	The Messengers
2007	In the Land of Women
2007	The Cake Eaters
2007	Into the Wild
2007	Cutlass
2008	Jumper
2008	What Just Happened
2008	Twilight
2009	Adventureland
2009	The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2010	The Yellow Handkerchief
2010	The Runaways
2010	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
2010	Welcome to the Rileys
2011	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
2012	Snow White & The Huntsman
2012	On the Road
2012	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
2014	Camp X-Ray
2014	Clouds of Sils Maria
2014	Still Alice
2015	Anesthesia
2015	American Ultra
2015	Equals
2016	Certain Women
2016	Café Society
2016	Personal Shopper
2016	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk