Twilight star is related to Dracula
China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-25 05:52
LOS ANGELES - Bite into Twilight star Robert Pattinson's past and what do you get? A blood-curdling connection to Dracula, the biggest vampire of them all.
Genealogy web site Ancestry.com said on Wednesday that the British actor is distantly related to Vlad III Dracula - the cruel 15th century ruler who inspired Bram Stoker's literary Count Dracula in 1897.
"Tracing Pattinson's family back to Vlad was difficult research, but the pieces that unraveled created the perfect accompaniment to The Twilight Saga," said Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist at Ancestry.com.
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