10 Actors Who Reinvented Themselves In Unexpected Ways

6. Kristen Stewart

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Twilight - love it, hate it, or... actually, there isn't really an in-between.

It's either the greatest thing that ever happened to your 15-year-old self or a blight on the entire existence of humanity.

Anyway, at the centre of a lot of the discussion about Stephanie Meyer's sparkly saga was Kristen Stewart, the face of the entire franchise. Sadly, in the eyes of many, that face just looked a bit miserable all the time.

Stewart was ruthlessly tarred with the "can't act" brush during her time in Twilight, which is unfair as have you seen what she was working with? Laurence Olivier would have struggled with some of that dialogue.

Since the vampire movies have wrapped up, Stewart seems to have made it her personal mission to prove everyone wrong.

She took on roles in war dramas, prison dramas, and even a Woody Allen film, before going through something of a renaissance in the 2020s.

Her portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer caught a lot of people's attention and she even turned up in David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future.

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