Kristen Stewart is an American actor, model, and director. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a César Award, the French cinema equivalent of an Academy Award, making her the first American woman to win it since it was first awarded in 1976. She has also received a Milano Film Festival award, a Young Artist Award, and the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She won the César Award, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, and Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance opposite Juliette Binoche in Olivier Assayas's French film Clouds of Sils Maria. Her films have grossed over $4.3 billion worldwide, and she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2010 and 2012.

Born in Los Angeles to parents who worked in show business, Stewart began her career as a child actor in 1999. She gained notice 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 subsequently starred in Speak (2004), Catch That Kid (2004), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and Into the Wild (2007). In 2010, she was awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Stewart went on to gain wide recognition for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012).

Stewart made her directorial debut with the 2017 short film Come Swim.

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• Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
  • Birthdate: 9 Apr 1990; Birth County: Los Angeles.
• "Kristen Stewart." Wikipedia, revision of 22 February 2019. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Stewart > Accessed 2 March 2019.