Robert Pattinson
In a year when MTV named him Global Superstar, Robert Pattinson stood as one of the more decorated recipients in that awards ceremony's history, having also taken home the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance, Best Kiss, and Best Fight — a sweep that reflected the scale of his public profile at that moment in his career.
Born on 13 May 1986 in London, Pattinson is a citizen of the United Kingdom. He received his early education at Tower House School before continuing at The Harrodian School. His professional pursuits have ranged considerably: he works as a film actor, a television actor, and a stage actor, and has additionally established himself as a film producer, a model, a singer, a composer, and a musician, making him an unusually versatile figure across the entertainment and creative industries.
Pattinson's career as a film actor forms the center of his public identity, though his work extends into television and live stage performance as well. His involvement in film production adds another dimension to his relationship with the medium, situating him on both sides of the camera. His activities as a singer, musician, and composer indicate a sustained engagement with music that runs alongside his screen work, and his experience as a model points to a career that took shape across multiple industries from a relatively early stage.
The MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance stands as a concrete marker of the recognition Pattinson received from one of the more prominent popular culture awards bodies of the period. The additional honors for Best Kiss and Best Fight, alongside the MTV Award for Global Superstar, document a stretch of his career during which his film work attracted substantial audience attention. These awards, taken together, provide a measurable record of his reach as a film actor during that phase of his professional life.
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I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'
I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight', which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.
People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.
I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'
Probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages of nonsense and she’d still mark it. She was a really amazing teacher.
I used to read a lot. But my focus has gotten worse. My favorites are Russian authors and dark stories where there’s no hope.
I’m just scared of crowds. I just think people require things of me whenever there’s a screaming crowd, and I always think I won’t be able to provide what they want, so that’s why I look scared all the time.
If it’s just screaming – and I know this sounds so ridiculous – that gets old. But sometimes when there’s literal chaos, it’s like being in a war zone, and that’s kind of exciting. You’re just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what’s going on.