Celebrity Biographies
Nikki Reed
If her writing skills were demonstrated when she co-wrote the script for “Thirteen”, it was also confirmed there that Nikki Reed was born to be an actress. Paradoxically, this lover of alternative cinema found the bridge to relaunch her career in one of the biggest commercial and adolescent booms of recent years, the “Twilight” saga.
Born on May 17, 1988 in West Los Angeles (United States), Nikki Reed is the daughter of a renowned set designer and a beautician, he is Jewish and she is of Cherokee and Italian descent. Nikki declares herself a “confessed Jew.” Since she was little, she had a complicated life, since when she was two years old, her parents separated from her. This convulsive situation caused her to lack stability, so at the age of 14 she left home to make her own life.
That was the trigger that activated his career. Involuntarily, he came into contact again with director Catherine Hardwicke , whom he had met at the time she was dating her father. Coincidences of life, both began writing the script for the drama Thirteen (2003) in 2002, which reflected in a certain way Reed’s difficult experiences as a teenager. She herself ended up participating in the film, which was widely recognized among critics and at film festivals. “The film was autobiographical, yes. But logically, by script, everything was exaggerated a bit, ”the actress herself has pointed out on different occasions, to downplay her complicated family relationships.
Although she had never really considered being an actress before, the film industry, after the success of Thirteen , took the license to decide that Reed was cut out for this world. In The Lords of Dogtown (2005), she met Hardwicke again, in charge of perpetuating on the screen the story of three legends of ’70s skateboarding, Stacy Peralta , Jay Adams and Tony Alva.
Reed made his first steps on television thanks to the popular OC (2003), which helped him to continue building his good name in the most commercial audiovisual circuit. And that, on the contrary, she has always shown more concern for another type of cinema, more ‘independent’ and less crowded, trying to avoid the trivial roles of a pretty girl. Which explains her appearance in American Gun (2005), a film that served as a critique of the uncontrolled sale of firearms in North America; or the fact that she continues to develop her ability to write all kinds of stories, as she does on her tremendously visited personal blog De ella.
Although it was not very well received, one of his most outstanding films has been There is always a first time (2006), where he shared the bill with Alec Baldwin. There she embodied a rebellious teenager who ends up working in an escort agency, although always within that somewhat childish acting register, which she logically conferred on her due to her age.
And then came the twilight hurricane that Reed did decide to ride. Yet another challenge with a teenage flavor based on the literary saga “Twilight”, authored by Stephenie Meyer . Her character as the vampire Rosalie Hale has led her to collect legions of fans, coming to interpret her throughout the five films in which Meyer’s work has been revealed: Twilight (2008, again with her mentor Hardwicke), Luna New (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn (Part 1) (2011) and Breaking Dawn (Part 2) (2012).
“It’s amazing how everything has developed. When we started, the budget for the first film was only $20 million. We knew there was a fan base, because the books had been successful, but we didn’t know that it was going to be such an extraordinary success,” Reed said in an interview with decine21.com last year. It has certainly been a success that has become uncontrollable at times, and one that is going to help promote the careers of all those who have been caught up in its maelstrom.
In order not to fall into the confinement of reducing his career to this vampiric apparition, he has participated during that period of four years in different films, although they have not been very flashy. She highlights the black comedy Last Day of Summer (2009), the horror thriller Chain Letter (2010) and Catch .44 (2011), an action film about the mafia arts.
Pawn (2012) is the latest project he has joined. A commitment to that alternative American cinema with which she feels so identified, although she has not always been able to put it into practice. Intelligent position before the vacuum of professional relevance that can be left after the blockbuster of Twilight . A true multifaceted actress who seems to have a lot to say and, above all, a long way to go.