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Personal life
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where I currently lives with her family.My father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox. My mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a scriptwriter originally from Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. She attended school until the seventh grade, and then continued her education by correspondence. She has an older brother, Cameron Stewart,and is a guitar player.In a 2008 interview with Vanity Fair, I confirmed she is dating actor Michael Angarano. She is also very close friends with her Twilight co-stars Robert Pattinson and Nikki Reed. I has expressed a desire to live and work in Australia, saying, "I want to go to Sydney University in Australia. My mom's from there."Apart from acting, she is also interested in attending college in the near future, saying, "I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but it's not all I want to do—be a professional liar for the rest of my life."
Career
I acting career began at the age of eight, after an agent saw my perform in my elementary school's Christmas show. My first role was a short, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV production The Thirteenth Year. I subsequently appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, in which i played the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson). I had a major role in the Hollywood film Panic Room, playing the sullen, diabetic daughter of a divorced mother (Jodie Foster). The film received generally positive reviews, and I garnered positive notices for her performance.
After Panic Room's success, I was cast in another thriller, Cold Creek Manor, playing the daughter of Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone's characters; the film generally failed at the box office. My first starring role followed, in the children's action-comedy Catch That Kid, opposite Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu. I also played the role of Lila in the thriller Undertow. To date, i most critically acclaimed role may be in the television film Speak (2004), based on the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. I, thirteen at the time of filming, played high school freshman Melinda Sordino, who stops almost all verbal contact after being raped and who deals with enormous amounts of emotional turmoil. I received great praise for playing the character, who had only a few speaking lines, but kept up a dark-witted commentary inside my head throughout the film.
In 2005, I appeared in the fantasy-adventure film Zathura, playing the role of Lisa – an irresponsible older sister of two little boys, who turn their house into a spacecraft hurtling uncontrollably in outer space by playing a board game. The movie received praise by critics, but I performance didn't garner much media attention as it was noted that my character is immobilized during most of the movie.The following year, i played the character Maya in Fierce People, directed by Griffin Dunne. After that film, i received the lead role of Jess Solomon in the supernatural thriller movie The Messengers.
In 2007, I appeared as teenager Lucy Hardwicke in In the Land of Women, a romantic drama starring Meg Ryan and The O.C. star Adam Brody. The movie, as well as I performance, received mixed reviews. That same year, I starred in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed adaptation film Into the Wild. For me portrayal of Tracy – a teenage singer who has a crush on young adventurer Christopher McCandless – I received generally positive reviews. Salon.com considered her work a "sturdy, sensitive performance", and the Chicago Tribune noted that i did "vividly well with a sketch of a role."Meanwhile, Variety magazine's critic Dennis Harvey commented skeptically, "It's unclear whether I means to be playing hippie-chick Tracy as vapid, or whether it just comes off that way."After I |
