Nikki Reed
Nikki Reed was born on May 17, 1988, in West Los Angeles, California, and holds United States citizenship. She received her education at Alexander Hamilton High School, situated in the same Southern California region where she was born, and has worked throughout her career in the English language.
Reed's professional roles span a broad range of disciplines within the American entertainment industry, encompassing acting in both film and television, directing, producing, screenwriting, singing, songwriting, and modeling. Among the projects for which she is noted, she appeared in Lords of Dogtown and Mini's First Time, and took on a role in The Twilight Saga. Her television work includes the series Sleepy Hollow, reflecting her activity across both film and television formats.
Beyond on-screen performance, Reed has worked as a screenwriter, a director, a film producer, and an executive producer, taking on creative and organizational responsibilities behind the camera as well. Her work as a singer and songwriter represents a further dimension of her professional output, and her activity as a model extends her presence across different areas of the entertainment and media industries. For her contributions to the field, she received the Young Hollywood Awards.
The range of Reed's credits — as an actor, television actor, director, film director, film producer, executive producer, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, and model — reflects the variety of roles she has taken on over the course of her career. Her noted work includes The Twilight Saga, Lords of Dogtown, Mini's First Time, and the television series Sleepy Hollow, projects that collectively illustrate the scope of her engagement with both film and television as a United States citizen working in the English-language entertainment industry.
Quotes by Nikki Reed
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Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight's no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.
It's frustrating to not be able to wear the same dress twice, so I don't have a go-to dress like all girls do. Renting is definitely going to be my new fashion obsession.
When you’re playing a character in a book, there’s already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.
I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don’t ever feel like I’m sitting around.
Before ‘Twilight,’ occasionally I would get the ‘Hey are you that girl from that movie?’ but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it’s very flattering.
At the end of the day, that’s our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.
I’m just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you’re not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor’s world, it can eat you alive.