Kristen Stewart's 1st acting career began at the age of eight, after an agent saw Stewart' perform in her elementary school's Christmas show. Kristen's first role was a short, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV production The Thirteenth Year. Stewart subsequently appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, where Kristen played the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson). She had a role in the major Hollywood film Panic Room, playing the sullen, diabetic daughter of a divorced mother (Jodie Foster). While the film received mixed reviews, She garnered positive notices for the role.
