With a career spanning over 25 years, Kristen Stewart has not just amassed credibility and respect as an artist but also substantial wealth and a rising net worth.
With a great eye for storytelling, Stewart has chosen impeccable scripts and perfected her craft over the years. Today, she is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses.
The Love Me (2025) star has deftly straddled the commercial-independent movie divide. From rising to popularity with the Twilight series to diving deep into the indie-movie-film-festival circuit with titles like Still Alice (2014) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), she has become more versatile with each role.
So, without further ado, let’s take a look at everything we know about Kristen Stewart, including her life, career, net worth and more.
All about Kristen Stewart and how she earned her significant net worth
Her early life and career
Raised by parents who worked in the entertainment industry, Stewart started early as a child actor when an agent saw her at a Christmas play when she was eight. Subsequently, Stewart landed minor roles including one in a Disney film and an independent movie, The Safety of Objects (2001) until she got her first notable part at age 12 in David Fincher’s Panic Room (2002) in which she played Jodie Foster’s diabetic daughter, Sarah. This role gained her a nomination for the Young Artist Award.
Following that, for a couple of years, Stewart starred in ‘serious’ and/or thriller movies. In 2003, she acted in Cold Creek Manor, earning another Young Artist Award nomination. She also starred in the thriller Undertow (2004). With continued success in her film career, Stewart decided to drop out of school at 13 and get homeschooled.
During this period, she starred in Speak (2004) which is considered one of the most powerful performances of her early career. In the movie, based on the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, Stewart plays a victim of sexual assault who stops speaking after the incident.
From 2005 onwards, Stewart started appearing in more commercial roles. She played Lisa Budwing in the space-fantasy movie Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Maya in Fierce People (2006) and Jess Solomon in The Messengers (2007).
However, it was in 2007 that her career took a turn as Stewart got cast as Isabella ‘Bella’ Swan in the popular fantasy movie, Twilight (2008). The film propelled her and co-star Robert Pattinson’s career to new heights. It even became one of the highest-grossing movies of her career.
Stewart continued to reprise her role of Bella for the Twilight sequels while also experimenting with her craft and starring in quality independent films.
She acted in The Yellow Handkerchief (2008) which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and had a theatrical release in 2010. Additionally, she starred in Welcome to the Rileys (2010) which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The same year she also won the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
In 2011, Stewart became one the highest-earning actresses in the film industry, especially with the release of the fourth instalment of the Twilight franchise, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011).
Her ever-climbing popularity in the early 2010s helped her bag the role of Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and as Mary Lou in On The Road (2012) based on the famous Jack Kerouac novel.
In 2013, Chanel announced her as their new face. The following year, she was also the face of Balenciaga’s fragrance Rosabotanica.
Stewart’s fame continued to rise and so did her quality of work. Some of her most notable roles of the mid-late 2010s were Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) — which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and won her the César Award for Best Supporting Actress — Still Alice (2014) starring Julianne Moore — which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival — American Ultra (2015), Woody Allen’s Café Society (2016) and Lizzie (2018), which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
While juggling multiple roles, Stewart also made her directorial debut in 2017 with the short film Come Swim which was featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The same year, she hosted Saturday Night Live and the one following that, served as a jury member at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2019, she starred in the political thriller Seberg which premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. She also chose some commercial, mainstream roles in movies like Charlie’s Angels (2019) and the sci-fi film Underwater (2020).
Stewart bagged one of the biggest roles of her career in 2020 when she was cast as Princess Diana in Spencer (2021) for which she got Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. It also made her the richest actor to play Princess Diana.
In 2022, she starred as a detective in Crimes of the Future and was the Jury President the following year at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. In 2024, she acted in Love Lies Bleeding and Sacramento. She recently starred in the post-apocalyptic romance sci-fi movie Love Me with Steven Yeun which was released in January 2025.
Stewart is also set to write and direct her feature film debut, The Chronology of Water based on Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir.
Now that we know the extensive career trajectory of Kristen Stewart, it is time to answer the burning question…
What is Kristen Stewart’s net worth?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Kristen Stewart has a whopping net worth of USD 70 million (approximately INR 606 crores).
Starting an early career has significantly contributed to her massive net worth. Along with this, Stewart has invested in real estate. Over the years, she has bought and sold multiple houses, adding to her net worth. She also owns several luxury cars and has recently started her own production company, Nevermind Pictures.
Career earnings of Kristen Stewart and their contribution to her net worth
As Stewart came into the limelight with her role in the Twilight film series, her career earnings started rising as well.
In 2011, Stewart secured the No. 1 position in Forbes’ Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck. For every USD 1 paid to Stewart, her movies and the studio made around USD 55.83.
She was also listed at No. 13 in Vanity Fair’s Hollywood’s Top 40 in 2011 with her estimated earnings of the previous year to USD 28.5 million. Out of which, USD 12.5 million was her fee for each Breaking Dawn movie and USD 2.5 million for On the Road (2012).
Stewart also topped the 2012 Forbeslist of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with a whopping USD 34.5 million in earnings between May 2011 and May 2012.
The 2010s were some of Kristen Stewart’s most profitable years, and she starred in some of the biggest movies of her career.
Kristen Stewart’s top 5 highest-grossing movies
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012): USD 830 million
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011): USD 712 million
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009): USD 710 million
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010): USD 699 million
- Snow White and the Huntsman (2012): USD 397 million
A glance at the assets owned by Kristen Stewart
Properties
In 2012, Kristen Stewart invested in a USD 2.2 million mansion in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood which was rumored to be situated near her then-boyfriend Robert Pattinson’s house.
She bought a property in Malibu in 2011 with her mother for USD 4.8 million. However, after nine years, she listed the 6000 sqft house for sale in 2020 at USD 9.5 million. According to a report by Architectural Digest, the actor sold her Malibu home in 2022, two years after listing it, for USD 8.3 million.
In 2017, Stewart invested in another home but this time in New York. Reportedly, she paid USD 5.6 million to purchase a loft in the city.
Stewart bought another house in Los Feliz in 2021. A Mediterranean revival-style estate for around USD 6 million which is around 4,864 sqft with classic, open and airy accents.
Luxury car collection
According to a 2022 The Richest report, Kristen Stewart owns not one or two but seven fancy cars in her garage.From a Mini Cooper to a BMW X3, here are all the luxury vehicles Stewart owns and their estimated value:
- Porsche 911 Turbo S: USD 207,000
- Porsche Cayenne: USD 67,300
- Chevrolet Suburban: USD 47,300
- BMW X3: USD 46,800
- Toyota Tacoma: USD 25,000
- Mini Cooper: USD 23,100
- Toyota T100: USD 17,228
(Hero and feature image: Courtesy: Odd Andersen/AFP)
The information in this article is accurate as of the date of publication.
