Nicole Houston "Nikki" Reed (born May 17, 1988) is an American film and television actress, screenwriter and model. She became known in 2003, after the release of the film Thirteen, for which she co-wrote the screenplay. Reed has since appeared in several films, including Lords of Dogtown and Mini's First Time. She also portrays Rosalie Hale in The Twilight Saga.
She is married to Paul McDonald.
Reed was born in West Los Angeles, California. She ...
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Nicole Houston "Nikki" Reed (born May 17, 1988) is an American film and television actress, screenwriter and model. She became known in 2003, after the release of the film Thirteen, for which she co-wrote the screenplay. Reed has since appeared in several films, including Lords of Dogtown and Mini's First Time. She also portrays Rosalie Hale in The Twilight Saga.
She is married to Paul McDonald.
Reed was born in West Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of Cheryl Houston, a beautician, and Seth Reed, a set designer. She has an older brother, Nathan August Reed. Her father is Jewish, and her mother, who is of Cherokee and Italian descent, is Christian; Reed was raised without religion, though she has described herself as "Jewish" and grew up around Judaism (her brother had a Bar Mitzvah).
Reed has stated that her early home life was "complicated." Her parents divorced when Reed was two years old, and she was raised solely by her mother. In 2002, when Reed was 14 years old, she...
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