Nikki Reed Picture Collection
by Alice on Oct.09, 2010, under Actress, Entertainment, Films, Gallery, updates
Nikki Reed (born May 17, 1988) is an American film and television actress and screenwriter. She became known in 2003, after the release of the film Thirteen, for which she co-wrote the screenplay. Nikki has since appeared in several films, including Lords of Dogtown and Mini’s First Time. She also portrays Rosalie Hale in The Twilight Saga.
Nikki and director Catherine Hardwicke finished the script for the semi-autobiographical film Thirteen in six days, a relatively short time for a Hollywood script to be written. Producers asked Nikki to play a role in the film because they had trouble casting it, considering it an “uncomfortable” role for most young actresses. The film, starring Evan Rachel Wood, was released in 2003 to glowing reviews, giving Reed recognition in Hollywood as both an actress and a screenwriter. Following the film’s release, Reed also appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and hosted a number of award shows, including the Young Hollywood Awards (2003) and the Independent Spirit Awards Nomination Show, followed by the West Independent Spirits Awards, both in 2004.
She has continued to portray sexually promiscuous teenagers, including her character in Lords of Dogtown, also directed by Hardwicke. In early 2006, Nikki appeared on the series The O.C., playing Sadie, a new love interest for the character Ryan Atwood. She noted she disagreed with the “trendy and shallow things” that The O.C. promoted, and that she appeared in the series only on the advice of her agents. Coincidentally, Reed appeared on The O.C. at the same time as later Twilight co-stars Cam Gigandet and Jackson Rathbone.
One of her most distinctive roles was in Mini’s First Time, which received a limited release in the United States on July 14, 2006. In the film, Reed played a teenager who, through seduction, involves her stepfather in a plot to murder her mother. Nikki has noted that her character does not “understand the weight of consequence,” and that she enjoyed playing someone who she describes as “crass” and having a “trucker’s mouth.” Nikki’s character participates in explicit sex scenes, which had to be filmed from the point of view of Reed’s back, as she was 16 at the time and thus legally unable to film her scenes in a more explicit manner.
Source: Wikipedia
