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Robert Pattinson

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 01: Robert Pattinson appears in store promote their new film, Cosmopolis, a drama about a multimillionaire who spends 24 hours in Manhattan at Apple Store, Regent Street on June 1, 2012 in London, England.

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  • Froth, frocks and film at an anxiety-tinged Cannes

    also the year the global financial crisis exploded onto movie screens at Cannes."La Crise" -- as the French call it -- bedeviled Robert Pattinson 's disaster-bound billionaire in David Cronenberg 's "Cosmopolis," the unemployed Glasgow youth in Ken Loach 's   Read more »

  • Robert Pattinson all grown up in "Cosmopolis"

    riots that explode outside his car in "Cosmopolis."All the young multi-billionaire Eric Packer -- played by a steely-eyed Robert Pattinson -- wants is a haircut.Packer spends the entire film, which premiered Friday in Cannes, crossing town to get one but is   Read more »

  • Young Hollywood stars strike out on own at Cannes

    out on their own, they hope to move their careers beyond mega franchises and toward more mature roles in bolder films. Robert Pattinson (" Twilight "), Kristen Stewart (also "Twilight"), Shia LaBeouf ("Transformers," ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the   Read more »

  • Robert Pattinson to play Eric Maddox in 'Mission: Blacklist'

    Iraq president to his so-called spider-hole in Tikrit on Dec. 13, 2003."Mission: Blacklist" would mark a major change of pace for Pattinson, whose roles outside "Twilight" have been mostly suave or sensitive types. His previous films include the 9/11-themed   Read more »

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About Robert Pattinson

Robert Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, model, musician, and producer. Born and raised in London, Pattinson started out his career by playing the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Later, he landed the leading role of Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer, and came to worldwide fame, thus establishing himself among the highest paid and most bankable actors in Hollywood. In 2010, Pattinson was named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World, and also in the same year Forbes ranked him as one of the most powerful celebrities in the world in the Forbes Celebrity 100.

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