Claim: One of Twilight's characters is the telepathic vampire Edward Cullen.

Edward Cullen -LRB- né Edward Anthony Masen -RRB- 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 .