ACTOR · BORN 1986

Robert Pattinson

Born: 13 May 1986, Barnes, London, England, UK
Known for: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Cosmopolis (2012), Die My Love (2025)

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Robert Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an actor best known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Cosmopolis.

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31 Interesting Facts About Robert Pattinson

Interesting Facts (10)

#001
He has said darts and pool are more his sports, and that he invented a love of snowboarding and soccer for his Harry Potter audition.
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#002
Was taught how to scuba dive for his role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
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Pattinson began taking piano lessons at age four and classical guitar at five. He was in a band called Bad Girls, then played solo acoustic guitar gigs in pubs and bars around London, singing songs he had written himself.
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Acting Idol as a teenager: Jack Nicholson.
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Lives in Los Angeles, California.
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He had no interest in acting when he was growing up and was even told by a teacher in school that he shouldn't pursue it.
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(May 10, 2010) Merited a place in Time magazine's - The 100 Most Influential People in the World ("Artists" category) - with a tribute provided by Chris Weitz.
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Attended Tower House School until the age of 12 and later Harrodian School, both in Barnes, London. Most of his earnings from his first acting job (a supporting role in the television film Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)) went to paying his fees at Harrodian.
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Supports Arsenal Football Club.
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Born at 5:00am-GDT.
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Production Story (2)

#011
Good Time (2017) was written for him after he cold-emailed the Safdie Brothers, whom he didn't know, having seen only a still from their earlier film Heaven Knows What (2014) online. The photo's energy made him determined to be in their next project, and when they met him, the directors liked him and were so energized by his enthusiasm that they began writing the script.
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Auditioned for the role of Lucas Lee in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) but the role went to Chris Evans.
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Behind the Scenes (3)

#013
He learned to drive on the set of Twilight (2008), in a ten-hour crash course.
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For Twilight, Robert Pattinson put on an American accent and wore contact lenses, and he said Kristen Stewart's performance strongly shaped his own.
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He auditioned for the role of Lucas Lee in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010), but the role went to Chris Evans.
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Characters & Cast (4)

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He didn't know he'd been cut out of Vanity Fair (2004) until he attended the premiere. The casting director felt so guilty that she got him the audition for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
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Director Mike Newell said Robert Pattinson was born to play Cedric Diggory, calling him quintessentially English with chiseled public-schoolboy good looks.
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How to Be director Oliver Irving recalled that Robert Pattinson forgot his lines at the audition and started improvising, which was exactly what Irving wanted, and called him a really down-to-earth guy.
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Also in 2008, Robert Pattinson played Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes, having first been considered for Dalí's lover, Federico García Lorca, a part that went to Javier Beltrán.
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Career & Awards (2)

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He played guitar on 'Birds' by the band Death Grips.
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Chosen by the Hollywood Film Festival Award Committee as the recipient of the 2008 New Hollywood Award.
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Life & Family (10)

#022
He was expelled at 12 for stealing explicit magazines and selling them to classmates.
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While he was filming in Spain, a woman stalked him at his apartment for several weeks. Bored, he took her out to dinner, where, in his words, he "just complained about everything" in his life, and she never came back.
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He is good friends with Tom Sturridge, a schoolmate since they were 12. After Harry Potter, at 18, Robert moved out of his parents' house and the two shared a little flat in Soho, London, and he is godfather to the child of Tom's sister, Matilda Sturridge.
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Even after Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), he wasn't sure about acting as a career before Twilight, and considered going to university to become a political speechwriter or trying his luck in music.
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#026
He adopted a dog from a Louisiana shelter while shooting The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), and named him Bear.
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At 15, being quite shy, he started acting in amateur plays at the local drama club after his father talked him into going, and after a few plays a talent agent in the audience at an adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles discovered him.
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#028
Played Reese Witherspoon's son in a cut scene in Vanity Fair (2004) and played her lover in Water for Elephants (2011).
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His favorite video game of all time is Final Fantasy VII.
Robert Pattinson: a sceneImage: Wikimedia Commons · Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Robert Pattinson has two older sisters, Elizabeth (Lizzy) and Victoria. Lizzy is a personal assistant and singer and participated in the talent show The X Factor UK 2014 and reached the top six in her category. Victoria works in advertising. Their parents are Clare (née Charlton), a booker at a model agency, and Richard Pattinson, a car dealer who imported vintage cars from the U.S.
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As a child, Robert Pattinson was disorganized, hated doing homework and had a lackadaisical attitude, and his sisters often dressed him up as a girl they called Claudia.
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