Kristen Stewart was born April 9, 1990 is an American actress and filmmaker. She has received several distinctions, including a César Award, of which she was the first American actress to win. She was the highest paid actress in the world in 2010 and 2012.

Born and raised in Los Angeles to an American father and an Australian mother, both working in show business, Stewart began her career as a child actress in 1999. She stood out in 2002 for having played the daughter of the character Jodie Foster in the thriller Panic Room, which earned her a nomination for the Young Artist Award for best actress in a feature film. She then appeared in Speak (2004), Catch That Kid (2004), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) and Into the Wild (2007). In 2010, she received the BAFTA Rising Star award. Stewart then gained wide recognition for playing Bella Swan in the film series The Twilight Saga (2008-2012), which has collectively grossed more than $ 3.3 billion worldwide.

Stewart dated her Speak co-star Michael Angarano until early 2009. In mid-2009, she started dating Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. In July 2012, she was photographed having an affair with Snow White and the director of Huntsman Rupert Sanders. Sanders, who was 19 years older than Stewart and married at the time, apologized for the matter, as did Stewart. Pattinson and Stewart separated, but reconciled in October 2012. The couple finally separated in May 2013. In mid-2013, Stewart started dating visual effects producer Alicia Cargile. They separated in the spring of 2016, started going out again in mid-2016 but separated again in late 2016. Since the end of 2016, she was in a relationship with the New Zealand model Stella Maxwell until when they broke up at the end of 2018. They started going out again in mid-2019 but separated again in August 2019.

Stewart lives in Los Angeles. Stewart identifies as a feminist.

In 2012 Stewart signed her Breaking Dawn – Part 2 dress and donated it to a CharityBuzz auction to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation’s Sandy Relief Fund, which provides long-term support to those affected by the hurricane. Sandy. In 2013, she reportedly raised $ 500,000 for Sandy’s rescue efforts by meeting an unnamed “Prince of the Middle East” for 15 minutes.