Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor, musician, and model. He portrayed Cedric Diggory in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Stock footage of Pattinson was used in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Biography[]
Robert was born on 13 May, 1986 in London, England. He plays guitar and keyboards as a musician, and also plays a wide variety of sports, from football and athletics to skiing and snowboarding.
Robert portrayed Cedric Diggory in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005.
He was cast as Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga film series in 2008. In the same year, Pattinson ranked #23 in ‘The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25’,[citation needed] was awarded Best Actor 2008 at the Strasbourg Film Festival for his performance art in the film How To Be,[1] and was chosen by the Hollywood Film Festival Award Committee as the recipient of the 2008 New Hollywood Award.[citation needed]
Behind the scenes[]
- Pattinson is close to his Harry Potter co-stars Stanislav Ianevski and Katie Leung, who portray Viktor Krum and Cho Chang, respectively.
- Pattinson considers Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando and Jean-Paul Belmondo among his acting idols.[2]
- Pattinson has starred alongside several other actors and actresses from the Wizarding World franchise in various projects:
- Jamie Campbell Bower (Young Gellert Grindelwald) in three films from The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2 (2011-2012).
- Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley) in the 2019 film Waiting for the Barbarians and the 2020 film The Devil All the Time.
- The former also featured early Fantastic Beasts series Gellert Grindelwald actor Johnny Depp.
- Clémence Poésy (Fleur Delacour) and Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) in the 2020 film Tenet.
- Colin Farrell (Percival Graves) and Zoë Kravitz (Leta Lestrange) in the 2022 film The Batman.
External links[]
- Robert Pattinson on Wikipedia
- Robert Pattinson at the Internet Movie Database
- Robert Pattinson at The Fashion Spot.com
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Strasbourg International Film Festival: 2008 Awards. Retrieved on 22 August 2010.
- ↑ Robert Pattinson on Moving Past 'Twilight,' Cold-Calling A-List Directors and Downsizing His Life (en).