Robert Pattinson

Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare (née Charlton) Pattinson, who worked at a modeling agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters and attended Tower House School until the age of 12, and then The Harrodian School. He is an musician and singer and started learning the guitar and piano at the age of four. When he started his acting career, he used to perform solo acoustic guitar gigs in pubs around London where he sung his own written songs. He never thought about becoming an actor and his drama teacher in school even advised him not to join the drama club because she thought he wasn't made for the creative subjects. But at age 15, he started working backstage at the local drama club called Barnes Theatre Company after his father convinced him to attend because he was quite shy. Later, he auditioned for the play 'Guys and Dolls' and he got his first role as a Cuban dancer with no lines. He got the lead part in the next play 'Our Town' and after starring in 'Macbeth' and 'Anything Goes', he caught the attention of a talent agent in the production of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and began looking for professional roles. His first screen role was a supporting part in Vanity Fair (2004), but he'd been cut out of the final film and didn't know about it until he attended the premiere. The casting director felt so guilty for not telling him, that she got him the audition for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). He was lucky and succeeded in gaining the role of Cedric Diggory, which brought him to a wider attention at the age of 18 and he continued to star in mostly smaller British TV productions. At the age of 22, the role of vampire Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight novels written by Stephenie Meyer brought him to unexpected worldwide stardom and the five films between 2008 and 2012 grossed over $3.3 billion in worldwide receipts. Between the Twilight Saga films, he also starred in Remember Me (2010), Water for Elephants (2011) and Bel Ami (2012). He started to distance himself from the vampire image with the role of a cold-hearted billionaire in Cosmopolis (2012) from cult auteur director David Cronenberg, which was Pattinsons first film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival with many to follow. With Pattinson being a big cinephile, he since then starred in mostly independent films from gifted auteur directors, such as The Rover (2014), Maps to the Stars (2014), Life (2015), Queen of the Desert (2015) and The Childhood of a Leader (2015). His unrecognizable role as an explorer in the amazon jungle in The Lost City of Z (2016) from director James Gray brought him much critical acclaim. His transformation to a sleazy, manic conman in the gritty crime thriller Good Time (2017) brought him a nomination for Best Actor at the Independent Spirit Awards and was a major step for his transition into a character actor with incredible range, with critics calling his performance a revelation and career-defining. He starred in the western-comedy Damsel (2018) as a cowboy with sociopathic characteristics and played a convict sent to space for sexual experimentation in the psychological mystery drama High Life (2018) from acclaimed French auteur director Claire Denis. He returned to work with director David Michôd in The King (2019) and starred in the fantasy-horror movie The Lighthouse (2019) from director Robert Eggers. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Janel