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   Kristen Stewart by Sara Hall
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Best known for playing Bella Swan in the Twilight films, Kristen Stewart is a rising young star in Hollywood. Many film critics marvel at her ability to play a wide variety of youthful roles: from angst-ridden adolescents to daredevil adventurers. A few critics even compare Stewart’s youthful talent to the great Hollywood actress Jodie Foster. However, there are others who are less kind. They dismiss Stewart's success as a lucky break for a sulky and rather stroppy teenager. The next few years will be critical for Stewart's career as she embarks on more adult roles.  She has to prove, once and for all, which of her critics are right.

 

Kristen Stewart was born in Los Angeles in the USA on 9 April 1990. She grew up in Los Angeles with her parents, her older brother Cameron and two adopted brothers. Stewart comes from a theatrical family. Her father is a stage manager and television producer, while her mother 

 

is a script supervisor who originally came to the USA from Australia. The family remains close. Although Stewart moved out and bought her own apartment in 2008, her parents still live close by. In her free time, Stewart enjoys surfing and walking her dogs: a border collie named Oz and two mongrels named Jack and Lilly.

 

Throughout her early years, Stewart went to school with her brothers. However, when she was just eight years old, an agent spotted her in a school play. With the help of her parents, Stewart immediately began to audition for television and film roles while continuing her education by correspondence. Her first roles were small ones. She made an appearance in the Disney Channel TV production of The Thirteenth Year in 1999, and played a tomboy in The Safety of Objects.

Stewart's first major role was in 2002 in the thriller The Panic Room. Here, Stewart played the diabetic daughter of a divorced mother played by Jodie Foster. Stewart's performance won her widespread critical acclaim. However, in the following year, Stewart played the daughter of Hollywood stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone in Cold Creek Manor. Unfortunately, despite the promising line-up of famous actors, the film received only mixed reviews and was not a box office hit. Stewart then starred in the 2004 family-friendly film Catch That Kid. This film provided Stewart with a rare opportunity to show her lighter side and her knack for comic performance. In the next couple of years, Stewart appeared in no less than 10 films, including a part in Speak that is based on the best-selling novel by Laurie Halse Anderson.


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Glossary


Stroppy (adj)

cross and sulky. 

 

Script (n)

words for a film or a play.

 

Correspondence (n)

the process of sending and receiving letters.
  Last Updated ( Monday, 17 May 2010 12:44 )