Emily Browning is an Australian actress. The wider audience started to recognize her after her appearance in the horror film Ghost Ship in 2002. She is also known because the author of the Twilight books, Stephenie Meyer, saw her as the perfect Bella.

Emily Browning was offered an audition, but she refused, because at that point, the actress wasn't sure if she wanted to continue with her acting career and there were three books to make into movies. Also, the actress was exhausted from her demanding role in Uninvited, so she's glad she didn't audition—even knowing that the Twilight series made Kristen Stewart Forbes' Highest Paid Actress in 2012, as she earned nearly $40 million from the four movies.