Kristen Stewart / Kristen Jaymes Stewart

Born on April 9, 1990 (Los Angeles, California, United States).

Kristen Stewart has built a career on minimalism charged with raw nerve — a rare ability to make stillness feel electric. Few actresses can shift so fluidly between silence and storm. She’s brought sharp, adrenaline-fueled energy to American Ultra (2015), quiet, soldierly intensity to Camp X-Ray (2014), and a haunting, almost spectral elegance to Personal Shopper (2016). Early on, she appeared in What Just Happened (2008), and in Into the Wild (2007) she softened Sean Penn’s road odyssey with a warm, uncertain youthfulness. In Crimes of the Future (2022), Stewart plunged into David Cronenberg’s uncanny, fleshy futurism with fearless eccentricity — the kind that seems to twist the air around her. And in Charlie’s Angels (2019), she reshaped a legacy role into something sly, punkish, and unmistakably her own.

Her partnership with Jesse Eisenberg — twice, across a decade (Adventureland (2009) and American Ultra (2015)) — forms an unexpected bridge between her work and the filmographies of several other remarkable actresses of her generation. Through his collaborations with Emma Stone, Mélanie Laurent, and Amy Adams, a quiet constellation emerges around Stewart herself — not a shared universe or intentional design, but the soft gravitational pull of artists whose creative orbits happen to pass through the same bright points.

Her on-screen love for Twilight’s vampires may place her in the same supernatural constellation as Teresa Palmer, Milla Jovovich, Emma Stone, and Kate Beckinsale. And yes — Stewart long ago embraced the running joke that she and Palmer look so alike they could swap franchises without anyone blinking. Fans mixed them up for years; interviewers teased them about being parallel-universe versions of each other; Stewart once joked she should sign “Kristen Palmer” on convention posters. It’s a small, sweet footnote — a reminder of how pop-culture mythmaking happens right in front of us.

Off-screen, Stewart has become one of Hollywood’s most visible queer voices — openly embracing her bisexuality, championing LGBTQ+ rights and marriage equality, and proving that authenticity can be a radical act. In 2024 she married writer and actress Dylan Meyer, their partnership becoming a quiet emblem of love lived without compromise. Stewart’s public life, like her performances, rejects neat boxes and polished facades: it’s honest, angular, defiant, and entirely her own.

Like Scarlett Johansson, she made her directorial debut in 2025 in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival with The Chronology of Water — a project as intimate and unflinching as the persona she has built over the years.

Married. No children.