<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2004--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Lizzy Pattinson (sister) </Td> </Tr> <P> Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, producer, model, and musician . He started his film career by playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a 2005 fantasy film . He later got the leading role of vampire Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer, which consisted of five films between 2008 and 2012 that combined grossed over $3.3 billion in worldwide receipts . Twilight brought Pattinson worldwide fame, and established him 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 . </P> <P> In 2009, he portrayed Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes . That same year, a documentary film, Robsessed, about the actor's fame and popularity, was released . He appeared as a troubled young man in Remember Me (2010) and also starred in a romantic drama, Water for Elephants (2011). His performance as a tough, cold - hearted and calculating billionaire in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis (2012), earned him critical praise . He gained further critical appreciation for his performances in David Michod's futuristic western The Rover (2014); in Cronenberg's satire drama Maps to the Stars (2014); in James Gray's The Lost City of Z (2017), as an aide - de-camp to an explorer who disappeared in the Amazon while looking for an ancient city; and in the Safdie Brothers' Good Time (2017). </P>

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