Renesmee from Twilight is all grown up & gorgeous today at 26: check the photo
Twilight spent a whole subplot guessing what Bella and Edward's daughter would look like as an adult. Fourteen years later, the girl who played her answered the question, and fans say the movie guessed right.
Mackenzie Foy turned 26 on November 10. She was 9 and 10 while she played Renesmee Cullen, the half-vampire daughter of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, which wrapped the franchise in 2012. "It feels like so long ago," she told reporters back in 2018. That was eight years ago, and it's been a while since anyone called her a kid.
The photo that got Twilight fans talking
The look everyone keeps sharing comes from a Teen Vogue shoot in October 2025. The magazine took Foy back to the house that played Bella Swan's home in the films and dressed her in fall fashion, and the behind-the-scenes video did the rest. Fans weren't stuck on the outfits. They were stuck on how closely she matches the CGI glimpse of grown-up Renesmee that Alice (Ashley Greene) sees in a vision in Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Parade reported.
"She really got Bella's eyes and Edward's lips."
— a Twilight fan, reacting to the Teen Vogue shoot
The kicker came in the interview. Foy has never read the Twilight books, and she plans to keep it that way.
"I want my association and memories to be my memories."
— Mackenzie Foy, to Teen Vogue
She also admitted she didn't understand what a fandom was until she was older. And she finally cleared up one piece of Twilight lore: she never met "Chuckesme," the animatronic baby Renesmee the crew scrapped because it reminded them of Chucky, CinemaBlend noted.
From Renesmee to Interstellar
Twilight was a start, not a ceiling. Foy kept working steadily through her teens:
- The Conjuring (2013): She played Cindy Perron, one of the daughters in the haunted farmhouse, and came back for a cameo in The Conjuring: Last Rites in 2025.
- Interstellar (2014): She was young Murph, the daughter Matthew McConaughey leaves behind, with Jessica Chastain and Ellen Burstyn playing the older versions. The role got her a Critics' Choice nomination for best young performer.
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018): Disney gave her the lead as Clara, opposite Keira Knightley's Sugar Plum Fairy. Knightley called her an "incredibly intelligent and thoughtful young woman."
- Black Beauty (2020): She played Jo Green, the teenager who bonds with the title horse, voiced by Kate Winslet.
On the Twilight set, she was famously the kid who put out a swear jar.
What she's doing now
Her latest lead is The Isolate Thief, a Civil War western from Shout! Studios that hit select theaters on July 10. Foy plays Ada Horn, a young woman left alone to look after a remote Union Army outpost through a brutal winter. When stolen gold lands in her lap, a gang of outlaws led by Sean Bean comes to collect, and Odeya Rush co-stars.
So the girl who spent Breaking Dawn being protected by an army of vampires is now the one holding off an army of outlaws. Renesmee grew up fast on screen. Foy took 14 years, and she landed on a western.
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