Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart
Birth name	Kristen Jaymes Stewart
Born	April 9 1990 (age 18) Los Angeles, California

Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Panic Room, Catch That Kid, Speak, Zathura and The Messengers.

Biography

Personal life

Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.^[1][2] Her father, John Stewart, is a TV producer who works for FOX television. She has an older brother, Cameron. Stewart is an avid surfer and lives with her family in Los Angeles.

Career

Stewart had a minor role in the 1999 made-for-television film, The Thirteenth Year, and subsequently appeared in the independent film, The Safety of Objects where she played the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson). Stewart had a role in the major Hollywood film, Panic Room, playing the sullen, diabetic daughter of a divorced mother (Jodie Foster). The film received mixed reviews, and Stewart garnered positive notices for the role.

After Panic Room's success, Stewart was cast in another thriller, Cold Creek Manor, playing the daughter of Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone's characters; the film generally failed at the box office. Her first starring role followed, in the children's action-comedy Catch That Kid, opposite Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu. To date, Stewart’s most critically acclaimed role may be in the television film, Speak (2004). Stewart, thirteen at the time of filming, played a high school freshman who is raped and has to deal with emotional turmoil. Stewart has received great praise for playing the character, who had only a few speaking lines.

More recently, Stewart appeared in the fantasy-adventure film, Zathura, which was released in November 2005, and the main role The Messengers, a suspense-thriller about a haunted house, released in February 2007, which generally received poor reviews. She will star in an upcoming film titled In the Land of Women, a romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Adam Brody (scheduled for April 20, 2007). She will also appear in The Cake Eaters and Into the Wild, as well as the The Yellow Handkerchief, which is scheduled to start filming in April of 2007 in Louisiana.^[3]

Filmography

Footnotes

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