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Fictional character in the Twilight series

This article is about the fictional character. For other uses, see Edward Cullen (disambiguation).

Fictional character

Edward Cullen (néEdward Anthony Masen, Jr.) is a character in the Twilight book series by Stephenie Meyer.

He is featured in the novels Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, and their corresponding film adaptations, and the novel Midnight Sun—a re-telling of the events of Twilight from Edward's perspective.

Edward is a telepathicvampire who, over the course of the series, falls in love with, marries, and fathers a child with Bella Swan, a human teenager who later chooses to become a vampire as well. In the films, Edward is played by actor Robert Pattinson.

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Concept and creation

Stephenie Meyer stated that the original concept of Edward originated in a dream that she had, in which an "average girl" and a "fantastically beautiful, sparkly ... vampire ... were having an intens