1. Robert Pattinson was born on the 13th May 1986 in London.

2. His middle name is Thomas.

3. He is 1.85 meters tall

4. His two older sisters are Lizzie, a songwriter, and Victoria, who is into politics.

5. He started acting at age 15 in plays.

6. He started his acting in the Barnes Theatre Company in heavy numbers like Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

7. His first film role was Giselher in Ring of the Nibelungs, followed by the role of Older Rawdy Crawley in Vanity Fair.

8. He likes music and he is an excellent musician, playing the guitar and keyboards.

9. Robert is a good sportsman, he tried everything from football and athletics to skiing and snowboarding.

10. He attended Harrodian private school in London

11. For the role of Edward Cullen, Robert flew from England to director Catherine Hardwicke’s house to audition.

12. His nicknames are Rob, Rpatzz and Spunk Ransom.

13. His eyes are bluish grey

14. His hair is brown

15. He was in a rock band named Bad Girl.

16. He says that he is determined to take on really weird roles following his parts in Harry Potter and Twilight.

17. He has an agent in Los Angeles where he lives now

18. He took a personal trainer after a designer said his body looked like he should be playing a sissy or something.

19. He was not a Harry Potter fan and he had not read any of the books before getting his part in the movie.

20. He had nightmares about his Harry Potter premiere

21. He was named’ British star of Tomorrow ‘ by Times online in 2005

22. He learned to scuba dive for his Potter role.

23. Robert thinks that he is immature

24. Someone once stole his shoelaces from his shoes. That’s the reason why he now wears the shoes without laces.

25. He has been described as having a rippling brow and matinee idol chin!

26. He’s rumoured to be going out with a Brazilian model.

27. Robert has a thriving Spanish website.

28. His shirtless scenes in Twilight have been scrapped because he ‘looked weird’.

29. Robert’s own music plays in Twilight. (two songs)

30.  He was slated to appear in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre, but was fired shortly before start and was replaced by Tom Riley.

31. He was rewarded with New Hollywood Award and the Best Actor Award at the Strasbourg Film Festival for his role in How To Be.

32. He won Best Male Breakthrough Performance, Best Kiss and Best Fight for role in Twilight, in 2009 MTV Movie Awards

33. He presented at the 81st Academy Awards on February 2009

34. He was voted "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2009 by Glamour magazine.

35.  Jack Nickolson is his acting inspiration

36. Robert was listed as the Vampire We Crave on E! Online’s list of 10 guys

37.  Robert doesn’t understand why everyone is going so crazy over him. He’s embarrassed by the way girls throw
themselves at him.