Kristen Jaymes Stewart was born to Jules Mann and John Stewart in Los Angeles, California. She also has an older brother, Cameron. Her father was a stage manager and television producer and her mother was a script supervisor.
Her family transferred to Colorado, where they lived for several years before they moved back to Los Angeles. At the age of eight, she was noticed by a talent scout agent during a Christmas play, who offered her a non-speaking role in a Disney TV movie titled, ‘The Thirteenth Year’. Thus, her tryst with acting began.
In 2001, she played the role of ‘Sam Jennings’ in ‘The Safety of Objects’. Shortly after the conclusion of this film, she earned a role as Jodie Foster’s daughter in ‘Panic Room’, which released the following year. At the time, this was a great achievement, because at the age of 12, she had already landed a role with one of the greatest stars of Hollywood.
She studied in regular school till 7th grade and then dropped out so that she could finish her remainder academic years through correspondence