Stephenie Meyer Life's Journey

Author. The daughter of Stephen and Candy Morgan, Meyer was born on December 24, 1973, in Hartford, Connecticut. The uncommon spelling of Morgan's first name was "a gift from [her] father." He added the letters "i" and "e" to the end of his name to create "Stephenie." The Morgans relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, four years later. As the second of six children, Meyer took on the duties associated with being an elder sibling in a large Mormon family. In between caring for her younger brothers and sisters she showed a passion for reading, becoming a fan of classic authors including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Margaret Mitchell.

Although she felt out of place among the privileged population of Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, Meyer was an excellent student. Graduating in 1992, her high marks earned her a National Merit Scholarship. She used the award to attend Brigham Young University, choosing to major in English literature.

In 1996, between her junior and senior years, Meyer became reacquainted with childhood friend Christiaan "Pancho" Meyer. The two had grown up in the same social circles and, less than a year after their first date, 21-year-old Stephenie married Pancho. After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1997, Meyer chose to become a stay-at-home mother to sons Gabe, Seth and Eli.

Some six years later, on June 2, 2003, Meyer became an author in earnest. Following a compelling dream - the inspiration for Twilight, and the basis for Chapter 13 of the first book - Meyer began a frenzied writing spree. The beginnings of her novel explored the romance between Edward, a vampire, and Bella, a human girl. Influenced by authors like William Goldman, Orson Scott Card, and Douglas Adams, Meyer set to work fleshing out the story, often writing while her children slept.

Within three months, she had created a 500-page manuscript and begun searching for publishing contact. Using advice taken from author Janet Evanovich's website, Meyer was eventually contacted by Jodi Reamer, a literary agent at Writer's House. Reamer and Meyer worked together polish the manuscript - among other things, Reamer insisted Meyer change her first title, Forks, to the current title - and Reamer soon began to present the book to publishing houses. Shortly after, Reamer secured a three-book deal with a $750,000 advance from Little, Brown and Company. This marked the highest sum the publishing house had ever paid a new writer.


Twilight was released in 2005 to rave reviews. As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Meyer eschewed strong sexuality in her writing. Instead, she supplanted it with florid sensuality; a draw for her numerous (and primarily female) readers. Like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter franchise, Meyer's book bridged the gap between teen and adult fiction. She also increased her popularity through her online accessibility, and frequently made herself available to her fan base. A best seller, the book was honored as a New York Times Editor's Choice and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. The following year, Meyer published her sophomore effort - the sequel New Moon - and sold the film rights to Twilight. With Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008), the four vampire books have sold over 250 million copies, and have been translated into 37 languages. Additionally, the film adaptation of Twilight, which stars actor Robert Pattinson, has grossed over $191 million domestically.

In 2008, Meyer released her first non-Twilight work. The Host, a grittier novel targeted at an adult audience, features an alien romance instead. However, the Twilight books continue to garner media and fan attention, and a film version of New Moon is due out in November of 2009.

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Taylor Daniel Lautner Life's Journey

Actor. Born Taylor Daniel Lautner on February 11, 1992, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has one sibling: a sister named Makena. Lautner is best known as an actor in the role of Jacob Black in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight movie series.

Lautner began studying karate at the age of six, and began winning tournaments within a year. After, Lautner began training with seven-time world karate champion Mike Chat. In 2004, at the age of 12, Taylor represented the United States in the 12 years and under division in the World Karate Association. Lautner went on to win the Junior World Forms and Weapons championship during the competition, as well as three gold medals. In 2003, Taylor Lautner was ranked No. 1 in the world for NASKA's Black Belt Open Forms, Musical Weapons, Traditional Weapons and Traditional Forms. By the age of 12, Lautner had won three Junior World Championships.

Lautner got his show business start at the age of seven, when he auditioned for a part in a Burger King advertisement in Los Angeles, which he did not get. He would continue to audition, unsuccessfully, for other roles over the next three years. At the age of 10, Taylor and his family relocated to Los Angeles in order to pursue his acting career. Since then, he has landed roles on television shows My Wife and Kids and The Bernie Mac Show in 2001, and Summerland andThe Nick & Jessica Variety Hour in 2004.

In addition to acting, Lautner also did voiceover work during this time. He landed a recurring voice role as Youngblood on the cartoonDanny Phantom and recorded two episodes on What's New, Scooby-Doo? and He's a Bully, Charlie Brown. He is also a series regular onWhich Way Is Up? and as the voice of Silas on Silas and Britany.

Lautner got his big break when he landed the role of Shark Boy inThe Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D. The film was a full-length feature directed by the famous Robert Rodriguez. Lautner spent nearly three months on location for the film in Austin, Texas. Months after wrapping his first film, Lautner auditioned and won the part of Eliot, the son in Steve Martin's family in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. The film was released in 2005. In 2008, Lautner landed the role of Jacob Black, a Native American character in the teen hitTwilight, based on the best-selling novel. Also in 2008, Taylor played the son to Christian Slater's character in the short-lived television series My Own Worst Enemy. The show was canceled after only nine episodes.

Taylor is an avid football and baseball player, and he participates in the Hart Baseball Program. He also is a part of the hip-hop dance group, LA Hip Kids and the jazz dance group Hot Shots. In addition, Lautner has been working to gain 30 lbs. to reprise his role as Jacob Black in the sequel to Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Lautner is also in the film Valentine's Day, which stars Jamie Foxx, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Gardner. The film is being directed by Gary Marshall.

Lautner spends a lot of time making home movies with his friend and Shark Boy co-star, Taylor Dooley. Lautner was voted one ofPeople magazine's "100 Most Beautiful People" in 2009.

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Kristen Jaymes Stewart Life's Journey

Actress. Born Kristen Jaymes Stewart on April 9, 1990, in Los Angeles, California. Her father John - a stage manager, producer and director - and mother Jules - a scriptwriter - immersed their daughter in the Hollywood scene at an early age. She made her first television appearance at the age of eight after her performance in a grade school Christmas play caught the eye of a talent scout. Shortly after, she landed a bit role on the Disney Channel TV movie, The Thirteenth Year (1999).

Two years later, Stewart landed a more substantial in the independent film The Safety of Objects (2001). But the actress' big break didn't come until 2002, when she was cast as the lead in the blockbuster drama, Panic Room, starring with film veterans Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto. Stewart's role as the diabetic, troubled teen caught the attention of critics, who praised her understated and solid performance. Fans also resonated with Stewart, and the film raked in a respectable $95 million at the box office.

Career Highlights

Stewart next signed on to play the daughter of Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone in another suspense drama, Cold Creek Manor (2003). Although Stewart and her co-stars turned out solid performances in the film, the plot was lambasted by reviewers and fans and performed poorly at the box office. Stewart followed up with two more low-performing films in the next year: the light-hearted teen film, Catch That Kid (2004), and the adventure film Undertow(2004) which, despite decent reviews, went almost straight to video.

Stewart showed her versatility as a performer in the Showtime special feature, Speak (2005), about a teen who stops speaking after a sexual assault. That same year, she appeared in the sci-fi filmZathura, followed by the drama Fierce People (2006). After appearing in several more mild box-office successes, Stewart landed a the role of a teenage commune dweller in the critically acclaimed biopic Into the Wild (2007). The role brought Stewart back to the spotlight, and that same year she landed in Mary Stuart Masterson'sThe Cake Eaters.

The year 2008 was a big one for Stewart, who starred across Robert De Niro in the Hollywood satire What Just Happened?(2008), then landed the starring role across from teen heartthrobRobert Pattinson in the film version of the successful Stephenie Meyer book series, Twlight (2008). The novels, about a teen who falls in love with a charming vampire, already had a legion of fans. Soon Stewart became the romantic icon for thousands of teens, launching her to A-List actor status. In fact, her popularity in the role has started to overshadow other projects in the works, including a starring part in the comedy Adventureland (2009), and her role inWelcome to the Rileys (2009), starring James Gandolfini. In addition, Stewart has been tapped to play the younger version of Joan Jett in the 2010 biopic The Runaways, while she continues to work on the remaining installments of the Twilight saga.

Stewart's love life has grown of increasing interest to fans since her role in the Twilight films. Many speculate that she has started a relationship with co-star Robert Pattinson, a rumor she neither confirms nor denies. However, in a 2008 interview with Vanity Fair, she revealed that she was dating actor Michael Angarano, whom she met during her time on the set of Speak. In addition to acting, Stewart plays guitar, and has expressed an interest in attending college to become a writer. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

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Robert Thomas Pattinson Life's Journey

Robert Thomas Pattinson

Actor. Born Robert Thomas Pattinson to 13 May 1986, in London, England. Pattinson is the youngest of three children and the only son of Robert Pattinson and Clare. During his childhood, his father ran a car import company and his mother worked at a modeling agency.

Despite his sometimes shy personality was Pattinson an actor from a young age, first as a musician and his older sister Lizzy Pattinson. It was his father who strongly encouraged him to try acting. During a memorable evening for dinner with his father, the two were seated next to a group of young girls she Pattinson said of just the Barnes Theatre Club, a renowned theater program at the Harrodian School, a private school in Barnes, England , just outside London.

"Since then he has been moaning about my participation," says Pattinson. "At one point he said he would pay me." Pattinson not to bite on the offer of payment, but ultimately Harrodian participation as a teenager and joined the theater program. Because he is starring in plays such as taking out the city, Goes Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Everything.

His performance drew notice in 2003, at the age of 17 he jumped from the stage to the screen, nabbing a role in the television film Ring of the Nibelung. The work required to move it to South Africa for several months, where the movie was filmed. A non-accredited role in the movie Vanity Fair (2004) followed.

Around the same time he had finished working on two projects, Pattinson a meeting with Mike Newell, the director of the year 2005, the final, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The meeting and subsequent auditions Pattinson earned the role of Cedric Diggory, Harry Potter's friend and fellow magician.
The film and the role Pattinson's life and career driven forward in unimaginable ways. Teen People Magazine called him "the next Jude Law" while Screen International magazine described him as "British Star of Tomorrow". It was exciting stuff and how Fri Pattinson admits it easy, in fact the head.

A great Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson fan, was Robert Pattinson's post-Potter planning to minor roles in plays or films that might discover him unique characters. But there was no way forward. He did go to a shocked play veterans of World War II in the BBC thriller, The Haunted Airman (2005), a student teacher with a love of The Bad Mother's Handbook (2006), and a small cameo as Diggory in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). But he was also a play in London and fired before Pattinson knew he was trying to Los Angeles on the couch and its agents to figure out his next step, to sleep.

What followed was a shot in the movie Twilight. His audition for the role of Edward Cullen, a vampire in the old love found in the room with director Catherine Hardwicke. Pattinson thrilled both Hardwicke and his future co-star Kristen Stewart, with his performance. "Everyone was a bit empty and shallow and thoughtless," said Stewart GQ. "But Rob understood that it is not frivolous to a role."

And yet, for the legions of Twilight readers? 17 million and is one of the book since its debut in 2005? Those who had been waiting breathlessly for the film, suggested casting Robert Pattinson as perfectly beautiful Cullen a nerve. There have been calls for a boycott of the film and 75,000 fans signed a petition that he be removed from the mold.

Pattinson, who, that he was concerned about the role, admits, seemed to take the criticism on the pass. "You This image of a Viking film [I] had, "he said." I looked like someone punched me in the face. I wore this 

disgusting wig, and they were like: ". This is Edward" "

To meet expectations, Pattinson cast in his character. He came to Oregon, where the film was shot months before the shooting, it was with a trainer and the script and other works of the author twilight decompose work

Stephenie Meyer. At the end of hard work and paid the initial decision to go with Pattinson. In the first weekend of the movie box office revenues totaled nearly $ 70 million and its leading man was catapulted into the heart-throb status to cult movie fans.

The film also served as a reminder that Pattinson, a guitar and keyboard player who loves Van Morrison, not entirely abandoned his musical ambitions. The Twilight soundtrack features two songs by the actor. Pattinson and extra music on the soundtrack of another new film from him, as you are.

Nevertheless, the screen seems to be where the real future lies Pattinson. Dusk on the heels of his success came the film Little Ashes, in which the actor stars in a meaty role as a young Salvador Dali. Also on tap, the Twilight sequel, New Moon is scheduled to hit theaters in November 2009.

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