Kristen Stewart
We’ll just start with the 2022 Oscar nomination she received for her portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer. But back in the ’00s, in between making five blockbuster Twilight films, Stewart starred in smaller projects such as Adventureland and The Runaways, in which she played rocker Joan Jett.
Before the saga concluded with Breaking Dawn—Part 2 in 2012, Stewart was another force to be reckoned with in Snow White and the Huntsman, playing an armor-clad version of the Brothers Grimm-and-Disney heroine. A photograph of her sharing a tender moment (and nothing beyond that, she has since said) with her married director Rupert Sanders broke the Robsten-shipping hearts of the world (and preceded Sanders’ divorce). But years after making up and breaking up again with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, she still thinks he’s the greatest.
“We were together for years, that was my first [love],” she told Howard Stern in 2019.
Now, she’s engaged to longtime girlfriend Dylan Meyer.
Robert Pattinson
Perhaps even more so than Stewart, Pattinson has worked to distance himself from his star-making turn as the brooding vampire Edward Cullen—though he told E! News he would “always appreciate” what the Twilight franchise did for his career.
He was the romantic lead in 2010’s Remember Me and 2011’s Water for Elephants, but after that he primarily stuck to the down-and-dirty depths of the human soul in the likes of Maps to The Stars, The Rover, Good Time and 2019’s The Lighthouse, in which it’s just Pattinson, Willem Dafoe and some really sordid nightmares.
Then, of course, came The Batman, in which he played billionaire Bruce Wayne (albeit a moody, Kurt Cobain-influenced one) and the Caped Crusader himself.
Following his notoriously public split from Stewart, Pattinson was engaged for awhile to FKA twigs. However, they broke up in 2017. Pattinson is now reportedly engaged to Suki Waterhouse, and they welcomed a baby girl in the spring of 2024. However, the couple keeps much of their relationship private.
“If you let people in, it devalues what love is,” Pattinson explained his approach to dating as far out of the public eye as possible to the Sunday Times in 2019.
Taylor Lautner
After captivating the hearts of Team Jacob, the actor went the action hero route in the John Singleton-directed Abduction and showed off his comedic chops in Grown Ups 2 and the Netflix movie The Ridiculous 6, both with Adam Sandler.
On TV he starred in BBC Three’s Cuckoo and the second season of Ryan Murphy’s horror-comedy Scream Queens—where he met Billie Lourd, whom he dated until 2017.
Lautner made it Instagram official with girlfriend Taylor Dome in 2018, and the pair announced their engagement in November. They then said “I do” during a stunning California wedding in November 2022.
Peter Facinelli
The Can’t Hardly Wait star, who played vampire patriarch Dr. Carlisle Cullen, was already working on Nurse Jackie while filming Twilight, and he stayed with the Showtime series through its last season in 2015. Since then he’s made a slew of indie films (including The Vanished, which he also wrote and directed) and been on American Odyssey, Glee, Supergirl, S.W.A.T., FBI and the new Magnum P.I.. And in 2019 he starred as cult leader Keith Raniere in the ripped-from-the-headlines Lifetime movie Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter.
Facinelli has three daughters with ex-wife Jennie Garth and was previously engaged to Blindspot star Jaimie Alexander. On Jan. 2, 2020, his rep confirmed he had popped the question to Lily Ann Harrison while they were vacationing in Mexico for the holidays. They welcomed son Jack in the fall of 2022.
Elizabeth Reaser
The actress who played vampire matriarch Esme Cullen blossomed on TV after the big-screen saga ended, showing up in The Good Wife, True Detective, Mad Men, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders and Manhunt. Her biggest splash since, however, has been starring on the binge-worthy Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House, and she joined the dystopia on the third season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Outside of film and television, Reaser is also an accomplished stage actress. And though she keeps a tight lid on her private life, she revealed to Vogue in 2024 that she wed Bruce Gilbert.
Kellan Lutz
After his turn as the beefy Emmett Cullen, Lutz loaned his voice to the titular hero in 2013’s animated Tarzan, then starred in The Legend of Hercules and was part of the younger generation of action heroes in The Expendables 3, both of which came out in 2014. Also that year, he reprised his role of Chris MacNess when The Comeback returned to HBO.
His recent movies include, Due Justice, Come Out Fighting and What Remains. He also starred on the FBI spin-off, FBI: Most Wanted.
In 2017, Lutz tied the knot with model and TV host Brittany Gonzales. Seven months after sharing she had suffered a pregnancy loss, the couple announced they were expecting. “Thank you all for lining with us, praying for us, supporting us,” he shared. “We’re so excited.”
In Feb. 2021, they welcomed daughter Ashtyn. Son Kasen was born the following year.
