Robert Pattinson in preparatory school

Full Name: Robert Thomas Pattinson
Birthdate: May 13 1986
Hometown: London, England
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue/Gray
Height: 6’1 (185 cm)
Horoscope sign: Taurus
Nicknames: Rob, RPattz, Spunk Ransom
Siblings: Older sisters Lizzy and Victoria
Instruments: Piano and Guitar
Sports: Football, Skiing, Snowboarding, and more
Theatre Roles: Macbeth, Anything Goes, Our Town, and Tess of the D’Urbevilles
Movie Roles/Claim to Fame: The Ring Of The Nibelungs, Vanity Fair, Goblet of Fire, The Haunted Airman, The Summer House, The Bad Mother’s Handbook, How To Be, Little Ashes, Twilight, New Moon, Remember Me, Unbound Captives
Acting Inspiration: Jack Nicholson

Robert Pattinson was born in London, on May 13 1986, from his parents Claire and Robert Pattinson. His mother Claire worked for a modeling agency and his father, Robert, imported cars from the U.S. He showed interest in acting in his early age as he got involved in amateur theatre through the Barnes Theatre Company. Pattinson started in the backstage as an assistant and later took on acting roles as he became more comfortable with the whole theather and acting scene. Robert Pattinson’s first small breakthrough was in a production of Tess of the D’Urbervilles where he caught the attention of an acting agent and began looking for professional roles. Growing up he was a highly skilled sportsman, taking part in every sport from football and athletics to skiing and snowboarding. Robert Pattinson also had a talent for music as he played guitar and keyboards. Robert has two sisters, both older then him, Lizzy and Victoria Pattinson.

Robert Pattinson pozing as a girl

As Robert looked like a girl at young age, he began a modelling career when he was twelve years old. Pattington’s modelling career was a great success until he began to grow a beard and look more or less as a guy, heheh.. I guess he would have been more successfull as a girl then as a boy.. Ok, enough with the jokes.. For real: Pattinson explained in December 2008, “When I first started I was quite tall and looked like a girl, so I got lots of jobs, because it was during that period where the androgynous look was cool. Then, I guess, I became too much of a guy, so I never got any more jobs.

Robert Pattinson Looks like a guy?

I had the most unsuccessful modelling career.” Robert appeared later in an advertising campaign for Hackett’s Autumn 2007 collection. Robert Pattinson had supporting roles in the made for television film “Ring of the Nibelungs” in 2004. Scenes with him were not included in the television screening but he shows up in the DVD version. Pattinson appeared in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2005 but was fired shortly and replaced by Tom Riley. Robert Patttinson also played a role in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” as Cedric Diggory the member of the Hufflepuff and was named the British Star of Tomorrow by The Times in 2005.

Robert Pattinson played Edward Cullen in the movie Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling novel of the same name, which was released on 21 November 2008 in North America and won world wide fame by this role of a young misterious vampire. Pattinson was initially apprehensive about auditioning for the role of Edward Cullen, fearful that he would not be able to live up to the “perfection” expected from the character. He reprised his role as Edward Cullen in the Twilight sequels The Twilight Saga: New Moon and the upcoming Eclipse, which began filming in August 2009 and will be released June 30, 2010.

Robert Pattinson on a bike

Robert Pattinson as a child

Young Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson as a Baby

Robert Pattinson baby soldier

Robert Pattinson Paparazzi

Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson is Slopy

Robert also starred in “Little Ashes”, “How To Be”, short film “The Summer House”, “Remember Me” alongside Emilie de Ravin, which will be released March 12, 2010.

Robert Pattinson was ranked #10 on The Telegraph’s list of the 10 Highest Paid Actors, with earnings of $16 million from the Twilight movies.

Robert Pattison Quotes

• “I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don’t know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it’s kind of stuck with me.”
• “I’ve changed so much. I’m not nearly as cocky as I was, I was a real prat for the first month. I didn’t talk to anyone. I just drank coffee and told everyone I was 24 and this famous theatre actor just back from South Africa.”
• “Thats the worst thing, I dont really care if people say I’m a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he’s ugly thats just like “oh.. really?”
• “I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!”
• “Sometimes I think, ‘To hell with acting,’ and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop, acting is much cooler.”

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