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Robert Thomas Pattinson

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Robert Thomas Pattinson
; born May 13, 1986, London, UK) is a British actor, model and musician[1].
He is known for playing the role of Edward Cullen
in the vampire saga “Twilight” based on the works of Stephenie Meyer and the role of
Cedric Diggory
in the film adaptation of JK Rowling’s book “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” In 2008, for his role in the film “The Age of Transition” he received the main prize of the Strasbourg Film Festival for Best Actor. Also received awards for best kiss at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards and 2012 MTV Movie Awards.

Biography

Early life

Robert Thomas Pattinson was born on May 13, 1986 in a suburb of London, England[2]. His mother Claire worked for a modeling agency, and his father Richard is engaged in the export of vintage cars from the USA.[3] Pattinson attended Tower House School (a school for boys), and from the age of 12 - Harrodian School

[4].
He was involved in theater as an amateur actor through the Barnes Theater Company
. After some experience here as a background actor, he was invited to take on more significant roles. He came to the attention of an acting agent after the production of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and from that point on he was in search of professional roles. From then on, he was hired to direct an amateur version of Macbeth, while at the same time trying to establish a career as a model. Pattinson has two older sisters: Victoria and Lizzie[5]. Victoria works in advertising; Lizzie is a singer and composes songs. At the age of 17, she performed in one of the pubs in Barnes (a suburb of London, where Robert was born), and was noticed by the record company EMI; a year later she became a member of the group Aurora and one of the best-selling performers in the UK.

Hobbies

Robert played guitar and synthesizer in the little-known band Bad Girls. When asked about the genre, the actor himself answers that their music is something “rock and roll in the spirit of Led Zeppelin.” Tries himself in solo performances. He has been interested in music since childhood. He explains himself this way: “I’ve been playing the piano all my life - since I was three or four years old. And I started playing the guitar—the classical guitar—at the age of five and didn’t let it go until I was twelve, and then I gave it up for a long time. But about five years ago I picked up the guitar again and started playing blues and other things.” In one scene from the film Twilight (2008), the actor is shown sitting at a piano and singing a song for his lover (performed by Kristen Stewart). For Twilight, Robert wrote and performed two ballads: “Never Think,” which was included on the film’s official soundtrack, and “Let Me Sign.” In addition, Pattinson collects electric guitars.

Personal life

On the set of the film Twilight in 2008, Robert met actress Kristen Stewart. The rift in the couple occurred in the summer of 2012 after the scandalous story of Kristen Stewart’s betrayal with the director of the film “Snow White and the Huntsman” Rupert Sanders[6][7].

After this story, the couple separated and sold the house they bought for their future family[8]. However, a few months later, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart reconciled.[9] Soon the couple separated again after Stewart's betrayal. Currently dating singer FKA Twigs.

Bella and Edward's off-screen love

Another important page in the actor’s life, which he turned over, but which fans of the film will not forget, was his affair with his colleague Kristen Stewart. The couple tried their best to hide their relationship. When asked by journalists whether they were dating, the actors shook their heads negatively, but the paparazzi repeatedly “caught” the couple hotly kissing or walking together.

Fans of the series, who fell in love with their characters Edward and Bella, were glued to the news screens to hear at least something about the relationship of the lovers. On the Oprah Winfrey Show, the actors did confess their mutual love for each other, but they did it behind the scenes of the studio. At the end of 2011, the actor finally admitted to everyone: he and Kristen are really together.

Robert and Kristen were a couple outside of the Twilight set

They appear in public as a couple and no longer hide their relationship. A year later, both live together in Los Angeles. In the same year, the world was shocked by the news that Kristen began a mini-romance with director Rupert Sanders, for whom she starred (the film “Snow White and the Huntsman”).

Without thinking for long, the next day Pattinson left the house where he lived with Kristen. Six months later, the couple got back together, and after another six months they separated for the second time. In 2013, the couple finally broke off their relationship.

Career

Robert's acting career began in amateur theater at the age of approximately 15 years. He then received an invitation to the Barnes Theater Club, where he played in such productions as Macbeth, Anything Goes and Tess of the D'Urbevilles. Robert’s first film experience was a supporting role in the film “The Ring of the Nibelungs” (2004). Also in 2004, he played the son of Reese Witherspoon's character in the film Vanity Fair, but his scenes were later deleted and appeared only in the DVD version.

At the end of 2005, Pattinson played the role of Cedric Diggory

in the film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". He was subsequently dubbed "Britain's Star of Tomorrow" by Times Online. Robert was repeatedly named the next Jude Law and was nominated to The Coterie as an honorary member.

In 2006, he played wheelchair-bound military pilot Toby Jugg, who travels to a remote mansion in Wales to undergo rehabilitation. But there he begins to suffer from nightmares, reminiscent of the horrors he experienced in the war.

On December 11, 2007, Summit Entertainment announced that Pattinson would be playing Edward Cullen.

in the new Twilight film, based on Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novel of the same name about humans and vampires. After the role of a young vegetarian vampire who fell in love with a simple girl, Robert's popularity grew greatly. Pattinson played in the film adaptation of the next novel, which was released in the fall of 2009.

In 2010, the drama “Remember Me” was released. In it, Robert played student Tyler, who began dating Ellie's girlfriend to take revenge on her policeman father, who arrested him for a fight in which the guy did not participate. Tyler falls in love with Ellie, but the events of September 11, 2001 separate them forever. In 2010 he also played Edward

and in the film adaptation of the book - “Eclipse”, which appeared on screens on June 30, 2010.

In 2011, the films “Twilight” were released. Saga. Dawn" and "Water for Elephants", where Robert played a veterinary student who, by chance, ends up in a traveling circus and falls in love with a young rider (played by Reese Witherspoon).

The world premiere of the film “Bel Ami”, in which the actor played Georges Duroy, took place on February 17, 2012 during the Berlin International Film Festival. The film was released in Russian theaters on March 29, 2012.

In 2011, the actor played the main role in the film Cosmopolis, directed by David Cronenberg. On April 19, 2012, it became known that Cosmopolis was included in the official competition program of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film premiered on May 25, 2012 in Cannes. The film was released in Russia on July 19, 2012.

In 2012, Robert also released the film “Twilight. Saga. Breaking Dawn: Part 2”, which became the final part of the “Twilight Saga”.

On May 2, 2012, it became known that the actor would play in the psychological thriller Mission: Blacklist, which would be based on the book of the same name, written by military investigator Eric Maddox. The book tells the story of the search and capture of Saddam Hussein.

In addition, the actor joined the cast of the film The Rover

), directed by David Micheaux. In the film, Pattinson will play a character named Reynolds.

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Filmography

Latest news about Robert Pattinson

2016 was very productive for Robert: a new film with Robert Pattinson, “The Lost City of Z,” was released; the actor starred in the thriller “Trap.” At the same time, the film “Good Time” was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, where Pattinson played a petty criminal trying to hide from law enforcement agencies. It is not yet known when the film will be released in Russia.

There is a new exciting film "Queen of the Desert", based on the biography of Gertrude Bell. Pattinson worked on the set with Nicole Kidman and James Franco.

In addition to working in films, Robert managed to star in a black and white photo shoot for Karl Lagerfeld, which took place in Paris. He also participated in an advertising campaign for Dior Homme. From the photographs you can see that the actor has lost even more weight, perhaps due to a very busy schedule, which is starting to worry his fans.

Other facts

• Favorite actors: Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, actress: Ellen Barkin, favorite movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[10].
• His small but quite significant role in the film “Vanity Fair” was cut out, and Robert found out about this only when he came to the premiere of the film and, after watching the movie, did not find himself there.
• One day he invited his fan to dinner when he was in a bad mood. This happened during the filming of Echoes of the Past, when his fan practically stalked Robert for three weeks, constantly appearing near his apartment, and Pattinson was so bored that he decided to invite her to a restaurant.[11]
• In 2012, Robert quit smoking and began carrying toothpicks with him everywhere. People noticed this and, as he himself shared, after each premiere there were always about twenty people who offered him boxes of toothpicks.[12]
• In 2014, a Russian astronomer named a near-Earth asteroid in honor of Robert: 2009 DM89, designated 246789 Pattinson[13].

Robert Pattinson's wife - Talia Barnett

The handsome guy had quite a few affairs, but only one of them led to an engagement. In 2014, the actor met singer Talia Barnett and the couple immediately began dating. The young people spent a lot of time together and constantly appeared in public hugging each other.

A year later they announced their official engagement, and fans began to wait with bated breath for a beautiful and magnificent wedding. The media were already covering the upcoming event, and Robert Pattinson's future wife, Talia Barnett, was wearing a luxurious ring on her finger when the actor announced disappointing news in 2020: they broke up. Well, let's hope that the actor will still meet his soul mate.

Notes

1. Gina McIntyre
   . [latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/10/robert-pattin-1.html Robert Pattinson on his 'Twilight' songs: 'Music is my backup plan if acting fails'], Los Angeles Times (October 9, 2008). Retrieved October 5, 2009.
2. [www.people.com/people/robert_pattinson Robert Pattinson], People.com. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
3. [www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/BookDetail.aspx?isbn13=9780061765537&BDMode=8 Robert Pattinson's parents.]
4. Flora Stubbs
   . [www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-20955856-details/Potter+star+%27next+Jude+Law%27/article.do Harry Potter star 'the next Jude Law'], Evening Standard (17 November 2005). Retrieved October 5, 2009.
5. [www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3541846/Profile-of-Twilight-star-Robert-Pattinson.html Profile of Twilight star Robert Pattinson - Telegraph]
6. [tata.ru/news/07.27.2012/160155 Robert Pattinson moved out from Kristen Stewart after cheating]
7. [www.rosbalt.ru/style/2012/07/26/1015333.html Kristen Stewart and Rupert Sanders publicly admitted to cheating]
8. [www.cosmo.ru/in_focus/section_news_events/1202954/ Robert Pattinson is selling a house]
9. [www.cosmo.ru/in_focus/section_news_events/1212745/ Pattinson wants to marry Stewart | Women's magazine Cosmopolitan]
10. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWrxma5vUyQ&feature=player_embedded Sky Cine News: Cannes, da Robert Pattinson a Kristen Stewart.mp4 – YouTube]
11. [movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20120206549&keyword=Hollywood&subcatg=MOVIESWORLD Robert Pattinson inundated with toothpicks since he quit smoking]
12. [www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-06/14/robert-pattinson-twilight-interview-cosmopolis Cosmopolis Robert Pattinson Interview - GQ.COM (UK)]
13. [www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2014/02/20/n_5961553.shtml An astronomer from Russia named a new asteroid in honor of actor Robert Pattinson]

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Dolokhov smiled contemptuously and condescendingly when Anatole left. “Wait,” he said after Anatoly, “I’m not joking, I mean business, come, come here.” Anatole entered the room again and, trying to concentrate his attention, looked at Dolokhov, obviously involuntarily submitting to him. – Listen to me, I’m telling you for the last time. Why should I joke with you? Did I contradict you? Who arranged everything for you, who found the priest, who took the passport, who got the money? All I. - Well, thank you. Do you think I'm not grateful to you? – Anatol sighed and hugged Dolokhov. “I helped you, but I still have to tell you the truth: it’s a dangerous matter and, if you look at it, stupid.” Well, you take her away, okay. Will they leave it like that? It turns out that you are married. After all, they will bring you to criminal court... - Ah! nonsense, nonsense! – Anatole spoke again, wincing. - After all, I explained it to you. A? - And Anatole, with that special passion (which stupid people have) for the conclusion that they reach with their minds, repeated the reasoning that he repeated to Dolokhov a hundred times. “After all, I explained it to you, I decided: if this marriage is invalid,” he said, bending his finger, “then I don’t answer; Well, if it’s real, it doesn’t matter: no one abroad will know this, right? And don't talk, don't talk, don't talk! - Really, come on! You will only tie yourself up... “Get to hell,” said Anatole and, holding his hair, went out into another room and immediately returned and sat down with his feet on a chair close to Dolokhov. - The devil knows what it is! A? Look how it beats! “He took Dolokhov’s hand and put it to his heart. - Ah! quel pied, mon cher, quel regard! Undeesse!! [ABOUT! What a leg, my friend, what a look! Goddess!!] Huh? Dolokhov, smiling coldly and shining with his beautiful, insolent eyes, looked at him, apparently wanting to have more fun with him. - Well, the money will come out, then what? - What then? A? – Anatole repeated with sincere bewilderment at the thought of the future. - What then? I don’t know what’s there... Well, what nonsense to talk about! – He looked at his watch. - It's time! Anatole went into the back room. - Well, will you be there soon? Digging around here! - he shouted at the servants. Dolokhov removed the money and, shouting to the man to order food and drink for the road, he entered the room where Khvostikov and Makarin were sitting. Anatole was lying in the office, leaning on his arm, on the sofa, smiling thoughtfully and gently whispering something to himself with his beautiful mouth. - Go, eat something. Well, have a drink! - Dolokhov shouted to him from another room. - Don't want! – Anatole answered, still continuing to smile. - Go, Balaga has arrived. Anatole stood up and entered the dining room. Balaga was a well-known troika driver, who had known Dolokhov and Anatoly for six years and served them with his troikas. More than once, when Anatole’s regiment was stationed in Tver, he took him out of Tver in the evening, delivered him to Moscow by dawn, and took him away the next day at night. More than once he took Dolokhov away from pursuit, more than once he took them around the city with gypsies and ladies, as Balaga called them. More than once he crushed people and cab drivers around Moscow with their work, and his gentlemen, as he called them, always rescued him. He drove more than one horse under them. More than once he was beaten by them, more than once they plied him with champagne and Madeira, which he loved, and he knew more than one thing behind each of them that an ordinary person would have deserved Siberia long ago. In their revelry, they often invited Balaga, forced him to drink and dance with the gypsies, and more than one thousand of their money passed through his hands. Serving them, he risked both his life and his skin twenty times a year, and at their work he killed more horses than they overpaid him in money. But he loved them, loved this crazy ride, eighteen miles an hour, loved to overturn a cab driver and crush a pedestrian in Moscow, and fly at full gallop through the Moscow streets. He loved to hear behind him this wild cry of drunken voices: “Go! let's go!" whereas it was already impossible to drive faster; He loved to pull the man's neck painfully, who was already neither alive nor dead, avoiding him. "Real gentlemen!" he thought. Anatole and Dolokhov also loved Balaga for his riding skill and because he loved the same things as they did. Balaga dressed up with others, charged twenty-five rubles for a two-hour ride, and only occasionally went with others himself, but more often he sent his fellows. But with his masters, as he called them, he always traveled himself and never demanded anything for his work. Only having learned through the valets the time when there was money, he came every few months in the morning, sober and, bowing low, asked to help him out. The gentlemen always imprisoned him. “Release me, Father Fyodor Ivanovich or your Excellency,” he said. - He’s completely lost his mind, go to the fair, lend what you can. Both Anatol and Dolokhov, when they had money, gave him a thousand and two rubles. Balaga was fair-haired, with a red face and especially a red, thick neck, a squat, snub-nosed man, about twenty-seven, with sparkling small eyes and a small beard. He was dressed in a thin blue caftan lined with silk, over a sheepskin coat. He crossed himself at the front corner and approached Dolokhov, extending his black, small hand. - Fyodor Ivanovich! - he said, bowing. - Great, brother. - Well, here he is. “Hello, your Excellency,” he said to Anatoly as he entered and also extended his hand. “I’m telling you, Balaga,” said Anatole, putting his hands on his shoulders, “do you love me or not?” A? Now you've done your service... Which ones did you come to? A? “As the ambassador ordered, on your animals,” said Balaga. - Well, do you hear, Balaga! Kill all three and come at three o'clock. A? - How will you kill, what will we go on? - Balaga said, winking. - Well, I’ll break your face, don’t joke! – Anatole suddenly shouted, rolling his eyes. “Why joke,” the coachman said, chuckling. - Will I be sorry for my masters? As long as the horses can gallop, we will ride. - A! - said Anatole. - Well, sit down. - Well, sit down! - said Dolokhov. - I’ll wait, Fyodor Ivanovich. “Sit down, lie, drink,” said Anatole and poured him a large glass of Madeira. The coachman's eyes lit up at the wine. Refusing for the sake of decency, he drank and wiped himself with a red silk handkerchief that lay in his hat. - Well, when should we go, Your Excellency? - Well... (Anatole looked at his watch) let’s go now. Look, Balaga. A? Will you be in time? - Yes, how about departure - will he be happy, otherwise why not be in time? - Balaga said. “They delivered it to Tver and arrived at seven o’clock.” You probably remember, Your Excellency. “You know, I went from Tver once for Christmas,” said Anatole with a smile of memory, turning to Makarin, who looked at Kuragin with all his eyes. – Do you believe, Makarka, that it was breathtaking how we flew. We drove into the convoy and jumped over two carts. A? - There were horses! - Balaga continued the story. “I then locked the young ones attached to the Kaurom,” he turned to Dolokhov, “so would you believe it, Fyodor Ivanovich, the animals flew 60 miles; I couldn’t hold it, my hands were numb, it was freezing. He threw down the reins, holding it, Your Excellency, himself, and fell into the sleigh. So it’s not like you can’t just drive it, you can’t keep it there. At three o'clock the devils reported. Only the left one died. Anatole left the room and a few minutes later returned in a fur coat belted with a silver belt and a sable hat, smartly placed on his side and suiting his handsome face very well. Looking in the mirror and in the same position that he took in front of the mirror, standing in front of Dolokhov, he took a glass of wine. “Well, Fedya, goodbye, thank you for everything, goodbye,” said Anatole. “Well, comrades, friends... he thought about... - my youth... goodbye,” he turned to Makarin and the others. Despite the fact that they were all traveling with him, Anatole apparently wanted to make something touching and solemn out of this address to his comrades. He spoke in a slow, loud voice and with his chest out, he swayed with one leg. - Everyone take glasses; and you, Balaga. Well, comrades, friends of my youth, we had a blast, we lived, we had a blast. A? Now, when will we meet? I'll go abroad. Long lived, goodbye guys. For health! Hurray!.. - he said, drank his glass and slammed it on the ground. “Be healthy,” said Balaga, also drinking his glass and wiping himself with a handkerchief. Makarin hugged Anatole with tears in his eyes. “Eh, prince, how sad I am to part with you,” he said. - Go, go! - Anatole shouted. Balaga was about to leave the room. “No, stop,” said Anatole. - Close the doors, I need to sit down. Like this. “They closed the doors and everyone sat down. - Well, now march, guys! - Anatole said standing up. The footman Joseph handed Anatoly a bag and a saber, and everyone went out into the hall. -Where is the fur coat? - said Dolokhov. - Hey, Ignatka! Go to Matryona Matveevna, ask for a fur coat, a sable cloak. “I heard how they were taking away,” Dolokhov said with a wink. - After all, she will jump out neither alive nor dead, in what she was sitting at home; you hesitate a little, there are tears, and dad, and mom, and now she’s cold and back - and you immediately take it into a fur coat and carry it to the sleigh. The footman brought a woman's fox cloak. - Fool, I told you sable. Hey, Matryoshka, sable! – he shouted so that his voice was heard far across the rooms. A beautiful, thin and pale gypsy woman, with shiny black eyes and black, curly, bluish-tinged hair, in a red shawl, ran out with a sable cloak on her arm. “Well, I’m not sorry, you take it,” she said, apparently timid in front of her master and regretting the cloak. Dolokhov, without answering her, took the fur coat, threw it on Matryosha and wrapped her up. “That’s it,” said Dolokhov. “And then like this,” he said, and lifted the collar near her head, leaving it only slightly open in front of her face. - Then like this, see? - and he moved Anatole’s head to the hole left by the collar, from which Matryosha’s brilliant smile could be seen. “Well, goodbye, Matryosha,” said Anatole, kissing her. - Eh, my revelry is over here! Bow to Steshka. Well, goodbye! Goodbye, Matryosha; wish me happiness. “Well, God grant you, prince, great happiness,” said Matryosha, with her gypsy accent. There were two troikas standing at the porch, two young coachmen were holding them. Balaga sat down on the front three, and, raising his elbows high, slowly took apart the reins. Anatol and Dolokhov sat down with him. Makarin, Khvostikov and the footman sat in the other three. - Are you ready, or what? – asked Balaga. - Let go! - he shouted, wrapping the reins around his hands, and the troika rushed down Nikitsky Boulevard. - Whoa! Come on, hey!... Whoa, - you could only hear the cry of Balaga and the young man sitting on the box. On Arbat Square, the troika hit a carriage, something crackled, a scream was heard, and the troika flew down Arbat. Having given two ends along Podnovinsky, Balaga began to hold back and, returning back, stopped the horses at the intersection of Staraya Konyushennaya. The good fellow jumped down to hold the horses' bridles, Anatol and Dolokhov walked along the sidewalk. Approaching the gate, Dolokhov whistled. The whistle responded to him and after that the maid ran out. “Go into the yard, otherwise it’s obvious he’ll come out now,” she said. Dolokhov remained at the gate. Anatole followed the maid into the yard, turned the corner and ran onto the porch. Gavrilo, Marya Dmitrievna’s huge traveling footman, met Anatoly. “Please see the lady,” the footman said in a deep voice, blocking the way from the door. - Which lady? Who are you? – Anatole asked in a breathless whisper. - Please, I've been ordered to bring him. - Kuragin! back,” Dolokhov shouted. - Treason! Back! Dolokhov, at the gate where he stopped, was struggling with the janitor, who was trying to lock the gate behind Anatoly as he entered. Dolokhov, with his last effort, pushed the janitor away and, grabbing the hand of Anatoly as he ran out, pulled him out the gate and ran with him back to the troika. Marya Dmitrievna, finding a tearful Sonya in the corridor, forced her to confess everything. Having intercepted Natasha’s note and read it, Marya Dmitrievna, with the note in her hand, went up to Natasha. “Bastard, shameless,” she told her. - I don’t want to hear anything! - Pushing away Natasha, who was looking at her with surprised but dry eyes, she locked it and ordered the janitor to let through the gate those people who would come that evening, but not to let them out, and ordered the footman to bring these people to her, sat down in the living room, waiting kidnappers. When Gavrilo came to report to Marya Dmitrievna that the people who had come had run away, she stood up with a frown, folded her hands back, and walked around the rooms for a long time, thinking about what she should do. At 12 o'clock at night, feeling the key in her pocket, she went to Natasha's room. Sonya sat in the corridor, sobbing. - Marya Dmitrievna, let me see her for God’s sake! - she said. Marya Dmitrievna, without answering her, unlocked the door and entered. “Disgusting, nasty... In my house... Vile little girl... I just feel sorry for my father!” thought Marya Dmitrievna, trying to quench her anger. “No matter how difficult it is, I’ll tell everyone to be silent and hide it from the count.” Marya Dmitrievna entered the room with decisive steps. Natasha lay on the sofa, covering her head with her hands, and did not move. She lay in the same position in which Marya Dmitrievna had left her. - Good, very good! - said Marya Dmitrievna. - In my house, lovers can make dates! There's no point in pretending. You listen when I talk to you. - Marya Dmitrievna touched her hand. - You listen when I talk. You have disgraced yourself like a very lowly girl. I would do that to you, but I feel sorry for your father. I'll hide it. – Natasha did not change her position, but only her whole body began to jump up from silent, convulsive sobs that choked her. Marya Dmitrievna looked back at Sonya and sat down on the sofa next to Natasha.