Edward Cullen Edward Cullen Edward Cullen (né Edward Anthony Masen) is a fictional character in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series. He is featured in the books "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn", and their corresponding film adaptations, and the as yet unfinished novel "Midnight Sun"—a re-telling of the events of "Twilight" from Edward's perspective. Edward is a telepathic vampire who, over the course of the series, falls in love with, marries, and has a child with Bella Swan, a human teenager who later chooses to become a vampire as well. In the "Twilight" film series, Edward is played by actor Robert Pattinson.
Edward Cullen had once been considered romantic, but had fallen out of popularity for decades". Meyer says that Edward is a combination of her three favorite leading men - "Jane Eyre"s Edward Rochester, Fitzwilliam Darcy from "Pride and Prejudice", and Gilbert Blythe from "Anne of Green Gables"—particularly Edward Rochester, who, like Edward Cullen, sees himself as a "monster". A recurring theme in the series, especially in the first three books, is that Edward is constantly trying to avoid accidentally harming Bella, due to his vampire nature. In "Twilight", Edward meets Bella Swan, a human girl whose thoughts he is unable to read,