Edward Cullen

Edward is a vampire whom, over the course of the Twilight series, falls in love with Bella Swan, a human teenager. Edward admits to Bella that he is a vampire, and that although he retains the physical body of a seventeen-year-old, he was actually born on June 20, 1901. His adoptive father, Carlisle Cullen, transformed him into a vampire in 1918 to prevent him from dying in the Spanish influenza epidemic in Chicago, Illinois. Carlisle instilled in him a sense of morality uncommon in most vampires, and central to his way of life is the refusal to consider humans as food.
In the 2008 Twilight film, Edward is played by actor Robert Pattinson.