Kristen Stewart

Actor

Kristen Stewart's breakthrough film role came as Sarah, the diabetic teenage daughter of Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) in the hit 2002 thriller, Panic Room. She has kept busy since then, often playing alluringly complex characters, in films such as Cold Creek Manor (2002), Speak (2005), Into the Wild (2007), Jumper (2008) and What Just Happened (2008). In Twilight (2008), she plays Bella Swan, the love interest of vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson).

Extra credit: In Panic Room, she replaced Hayden Panettiere, who was originally cast as Sarah... Before then, she had roles in The Safety of Objects (2001) and in a Disney Channel TV production, The Thirteenth Year (1999).

Stewart's contemporaries include actresses Keisha Castle-Hughes, Ellen Page and Emma Watson.