Robert Pattinson

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Birthday: May 13, 1986
Age: 25
Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: London, England
Hometown: London, England
Big Break: Twilight
Biography
Actor, model, and musician Robert Pattinson was born Robert Thomas Pattinson on May 13th, 1986 in London, England. At a young age, Pattinson became involved with theatre through the Barnes Theatre company. He caught the eye of an acting agent, and then began looking for professional roles.

Robert then began his modeling career at age twelve, but it only lasted about four years. While his career was rather unsuccessful, he still had much more to offer.

Robert Pattinson had small roles in films such as Ring of the Nibleungs in 2004 and Vanity Fair, even though his scenes only appear on the DVD version, his career was gearing up to take off.

Later that same year, Pattinson landed the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. While being in Harry Potter kick started career, his big break was when he landed the role of Edward Cullen in the box office smash Twilight.

The role of Edward Cullen led to Robert becoming a household name. Pattinson has also landed lead roles in the film Little Ashes, How To Be and the sort film The Summer House.

Pattinson is also an incredibly talented musician. He plays guitar and piano, as well as composes. He has two songs on the Twilight Soundtrack, “Never Think” and “Let Me Sign.” Pattinson has already accomplished so much, but there is undoubtedly more to come.

Did you know...
  • Until he was twelve, Pattinson’s sisters, Lizzie and Victoria, dressed him up as a girl and would introduce him to people as Claudia.
  • He got expelled from Harrodian private school in London when he was twelve.
  • He was in a rock band called Bad Girl.
  • He used to throw up on the set of Harry Potter because of nerves.
  • He aspires to be like Jack Nicholson
  • His fashion sense is inspired by James Dean
  • Someone once stole his shoelaces from his shoes. He now wears the shoes without laces as a sort of signature
  • He has a thriving Spanish website.
  • He got bags of hate mail saying he should not play Edward in Twilight.
  • One of his first roles was a small part as a Cuban dancer.
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Well said sir. Without Twilight, Robert Pattinson is just some guy with his eyes spaced very far apart. With Twilight, Robert Pattinson is an international vampire hottie that travels with a pack of screaming fans.

Speaking to The Herald Scotland, Robert Pattinson isn’t obsessed with his own hype, and kind of blames Twilight for ruining his anonymity.

“Doing something like Twilight opens doors and it closes others. You can say, ‘Oh if I was still unknown, then no one would judge me,” says Pattinson
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Indie star-turned-Golden Globe nominee Zooey Deschanel is having one heck of a year, but life hasn’t always been peachy for Zooey. The actress says she has a major fear of bullies, stemming back to her school days.

“Girls spit in my face,” Zooey said. “People were so mean to me, I’d cry every day.”

Sad, but she's certainly not alone. Plenty of A-listers were picked on in their younger years, but those days are long behind them. Here are 10 celebs who were bullied as kids.
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Earlier this week Jennifer Hudson admitted that she was the first choice to play Precious in the gritty Oscar winning film "Precious," but turned down the role because she was afraid to gain all that weight. "I had gained weight with Effie [her role in "Dreamgirls"] and as much as I was moved by this film, I wanted to try a role that had nothing whatsoever to do with my weight."

So she then went and appeared in the "Sex and The City" movie instead, because that was a great movie! Same caliber as "Precious" and everything!

So anyways, what other actors were "almost" in a movie. Or turned down a role at the last minute?

Will Smith: Will Smith was THIS close to playing Keanu Reeve's part in "The Matrix." You know, I could see "The Matrix" starring Will Smith instead, too bad Will choose the blue pill. Or the red pill? Whichever one is the wrong one, he chose that-ok, this Matrix reference is not working out.
What have you done with Robert Pattinson?! The actor made one of his first public appearances since his whirlwind Breaking Dawn press tour and debuted an entirely buzzed hair cut at last nights People's Choice Awards.

He is one of those guys whose hair truly makes the man. This is exactly what happened when Jake Gyllenhaal shaved his head - without hair, these guys become suddenly so un-dreamy.
Well, we knew it wasn’t Heidi and Spencer.

If there’s one thing Forbes loves to do, it’s let the world know exactly how much each celebrity makes and then rank them in a list. And god bless ‘em, they’ve done it again.

Emma Watson and Rupert Grint play Hermione Granger and Ron Weasly in the Harry Potter franchise.

Forbes has put together a list of Hollywood’s Top Earning On-Screen Couples, and those two top the list, raking in a whopping $4.2 billion between them at the global box office. Keep in mind, that’s four movies in the last five years, so they’ve had some time to bank.
Things are getting serious between these two. They've rented out a luxurious London apartment and are considering adopting a dog together. A dog! That means forever.

Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have rented out a little love nest in London, where Robert's from.

The two have been busy these days, with Stewart filming her upcoming flick, Snow White And The Huntsman and both of them promoting the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Not that they really even need to promote that. You could write the word "Twilight" in chalk on the sidewalk, and thousands of Twihards would line up for days just to look at it.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 has just set a record for the Twilight Franchise and sets itself as the fourth largest overseas opening weekend for a film in 2011.

Say what you want about the acting in The Twilight films, the bizarre and gaping plot holes, Robert Pattinson’s “American” accent or the blatant Yahoo product placement in the film, but Breaking Dawn just raked in $144 million in overseas markets in opening weekend alone.

That puts this film ahead of past Twilight films like New Moon, which debuted to $132.5 million in foreign markets, and Eclipse, which opened to $104.5 million. Also, to put this in perspective, the first Twilight film made $200 million in it’s entire foreign theater run. Breaking Dawn made almost that in one weekend.
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” opened yesterday and it's already done better at the box office than some movies make in their entire theater run.

The fourth installment debuted to an estimated $72 million yesterday, which is the third-highest opening day ever behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($91.1 million) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($72.7 million).

  It’s also made way more than any of the opening nights for any of the three previous Twilight films and you know it’s only because this film has the coveted “sex scene.” Oh like you’re going to see Twilight for the choreographed fight scenes and the brilliant writing, shut up.
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And Twi-hards enjoyed watching them. Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson have a much anticipated, steamy, vampire-y sex scene in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. And Stewart admitted she enjoyed shooting the "close-up" lovemaking scenes in the movie.

At the UK premiere of the flick, Stewart said:   "It was an interesting experience. It was different to what we ever had before. Because usually we can just refer to the book, we've got pages. But it was good - everyone thinks love scenes are always going to be really awkward and stuff - but you know appropriately so. Lots of close-ups and sexy face."

If you're a budding actor, here's a good tip for making "sexy face": pretend like you've been running on a treadmill for an hour.
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Twilight fans go hard. They waited for weeks in the bitter cold for the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I movie premiere. Okay, it doesn't get that cold in Los Angeles, but I'm betting these guys would've waited through a blizzard just to watch Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart walk the black carpet.

Hollyscoop talked to Rob at the movie premiere about his role as Edward Cullen in the famous saga.

"You just try and give something back I guess," Pattinson said about rising to massive fame at a young age. "The only thing I know how to do is try and make better movies. If people like to see you in stuff you might try to make it as good as you can."
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