Bree Tanner

Bree Tanner

Early Life

Bree lived with her abusive father while she was a human. When she felt that she'd had enough of her father's abusive treatment, she ran away from home. Three weeks later, she encounters Riley, who "offers her a burger", and takes her to Victoria (her face shrouded from the shadows) and turned her into a vampire and a member of her army.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Three months after she became a vampire, Bree went hunting with Kevin, a blond kid calling himself "Spider-Man", and an obedient vampire named Diego. After breaking away from the two kids, Bree and Diego went hunting alone and used the time to talk to each other. They later discover that vampires aren't vulnerable to sunlight, but rather sparkle like diamonds. When their army left Seattle without leaving a clue, Bree and Diego set off to find them on their own until they finally caught their scent and followed it to their new location.

While Riley went to visit Victoria, Bree and Diego followed him to tell him of their discovery, only to find out more than they've expected about the world of vampires. Diego proceeded his plan while Bree went back to their group and awaited their return. However, Riley told Bree later that Diego had gone with Victoria to watch the Cullens, after he told the army of the plan to destroy the "yellow-eyes". Though Bree was suspicious of their real agenda, she decided to stick with them. When the army prepares for war, her friend, Fred, decided to leave and explore the world, and asked Bree to join him. Though she wanted to, she decided to stay until she found Diego.

When the Cullens and wolves had destroyed most of her army, she found no trace of Diego whatsoever and figured out that Victoria had killed him. She surrendered to the Cullens to save herself.

Eclipse

When the Volturi arrived in Forks with other members of the Volturi guard, Jane demanded Bree tell her about her creator - Victoria. Bree knew nothing of Victoria, as most of the newborns never got to see her face or know her name. She didn't remember much of the night she was transformed, except for "it was burning". As Victoria never allowed the newborns to see her, she made Riley do all the controlling. It was Riley that manipulated them all into fighting; telling
them that they must destroy the "yellow eyes".

It is obvious she didn't contribute much, because otherwise she would have been killed instantly by the Cullens. Bree was the last of the newborns to be killed. Once Victoria and Riley had been killed and burnt, Edward and Bella made their way over to the rest of the Cullens, where they stood by Bree. She had surrendered, as she didn't see the point of fighting, asking that they did not kill her, and she wouldn't attack them. She found it very hard to resist Bella's blood, but managed. The Volturi arrived, and Jane asked them questions. Jane concluded that she was a criminal, despite her ignorance of the laws, and ordered her to be killed after torturing her with her power. Felix killed her; to which she didn't fight back, and burnt the remains.

Carlisle was deeply saddened, as he would have welcomed her to his coven as she showed the ability to control her instinct and thirst.

Physical appearance

Bree is described as a young girl of about 15. She is said to be slender with chin-length dark hair. She possesses the glowing, red eyes indicative of a newborn vampire. She has a high-pitched voice and a shrill scream.

Personality and traits

Bree didn't really like being a vampire, although she was used to it, she longed for her normal life. She liked to read books, and was in love with one of the other newborn vampires, Diego. She believed in urban vampire legends and, at first, was afraid of stakes and the sun. When she discovered these couldn't harm her, she was relieved.

Bree had a great amount of self control, considering the fact that she resisted Bella's blood. She also seems mildly innocent to Victoria's plans. Althought it is said that she has great self control, she also finds it hard to resist her desire for Bella's blood.

Relationships

Diego:
Diego was one of the Seattle newborn army. He was Bree's only vampire friend and proved to her that vampires did not die in sunlight. He and Bree spend time together one night when they are out hunting and he shows her undue kindness in letting her drink the blood of a girl he has knocked out. After spending time together in a cave to escape the sunlight the two of them become good friends and Bree falls in love with him when she sees him sparkling in the sunlight. He and Bree find out that they are not being told the truth by Riley and that they are just pawns in Victoria's vampire army. Diego confronts Riley about being able to survive sunlight and Riley kills him in case he tells the other newborns.

Fred:
Fred was part of the newborn army, and the only one with a gift. Because his "gift" allowed him to repulse vampires who wanted to pick a fight with him, Bree was constantly hiding in his shadows to stay out of trouble. About six days before the army moved out to attack the Cullens, a vampire approached Bree to pick a fight, and Fred inflicted him and his group with his power to save her. About one day before they fought the Cullens, Fred and Bree started forming a friendship together. Fred wanted to explore the vampire world on his own, and asked Bree to come with him. Though she agreed, she told him she needed to go with the group to find Diego. Fred agreed to wait for them in Riley Park, in Vancouver, but he would wait no longer than one day, then he would go alone. Right before the Volturi killed her, she telepathically asked Edward to be nice to "him" if they ever were to meet him in the future.

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Jodelle Ferland

Jodelle Ferland (born October 9, 1994) is a Canadian actress who will play a "newly turned vampire" in the film Eclipse. This role is presumably for the character Bree, a newborn vampire who gave up attacking the Cullens in Eclipse.

Ferland was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the daughter of Valerie Ferland. Her siblings are actress Marisha Ferland and musician Jeremy Ferland.

She made her movie debut at age 4 in the TV-movie Mermaid, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination, making her the youngest nominee in Emmy history. She has since made guest appearances in several televisions series, including Stargate Atlantis, Dark Angel, Stargate SG-1, Smallville and Supernatural, and has appeared in films including They and Trapped. In 2005, she starred in the Terry Gilliam drama Tideland, for which she received a Genie Award nomination in the Best Actress category. Later, she appeared in the 2006 film Silent Hill, an adaptation of the well-known video game, and had a supporting role in Good Luck Chuck for Lions Gate Entertainment. In 2006 she filmed the movie Case 39 opposite Renée Zellweger but it has yet to be released. She recently announced that she has been cast as Bree, in the third film of the Twilight series, titled Eclipse.

Jodelle admits that choosing this part was a no-brainer. "Usually I read the script before I take a role, but I haven't read this one," she explained. "It's Twilight, of course I'm going to take it."

Filmography:

2000
*Mermaid Desiree Leanne 'Desi' Gill TV
*The Linda McCartney Story Heather (age 5-6) as Jodelle Micah Ferland
*Special Delivery Samantha Beck TV

2001
*Trapped Heather as Jodelle Micah Ferland
*Deadly Little Secrets Madison
*The Miracle of the Cards Annie TV

2002
*They Sarah as Jodelle Micah Ferland
*Carrie Little Carrie TV

2003
*Mob Princess Young Patti TV

2004
*Kingdom Hospital Mary Jensen Miniseries
*10.5 Little 'Wow!' Girl Miniseries
*Too Cool for Christmas Alexa TV

Kingdom Hospital

2005
*Tideland Jeliza-Rose Voices of Sateen Lips, Glitter Gal, Mustique and Baby Blonde

2006
*Silent Hill Sharon DaSilva/Alessa
*Amber's Story Nichole Taylor Timmons as Jodelle Micah Ferland
*Swimming Lessons Zoe
*The Secret of Hidden Lake Young Maggie Dolan TV

2007
*The Messengers Michael Rollins
*Seed Emily Bishop Detective Bishop's daughter
*Good Luck Chuck Lila Carpenter as Jodelle Micah Ferland
*Pictures of Hollis Woods Hollis Woods TV

2008
*Céline Young Celine TV
*Wonderful World Sandra

2009
*Case 39 Lillith Sullivan completed

2010
*The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Bree Tanner post-production

2011
*The Cabin in the Woods Patience Buckner post-production

Silent Hill

1999
*Cold Squad Hailey Hatcher Episodes: "First Deadly Sin" and "Deadly Games: Part 2"

2000
*Higher Ground Young Juliette Episode:"Innocence"
*Sole Survivor Nina Carpenter Miniseries

2001
*Wolf Lake Lily Kelly Episode:"unaired pilot"
*Dark Angel Annabelle Anselmo Episode:"Red"
*The Lone Gunmen Mary the Little Girl Episode:" Cap'n Toby"
*So Weird Maria Episode:" Annie's Song"

2002
*Special Unit 2 Focus Group Girl Episode:" The Piper"
*John Doe Jenny Nichols Episode:"Pilot"

2003
*Smallville Emily Eve Dinsmore Episode:"Accelerate"
*Dead Like Me Kirsti Episode:"Pilot"

2004
*The Collector The Devil/Little Girl Episodes:"The "Prosecutor" and "The Rapper"

2005
*Supernatural Cameo in a family portrait Episode:"Pilot"

2006
*Supernatural Melanie Merchant Episode:"Provenance"
*Stargate SG-1 Adria (age 7) Episode:"Flesh and Blood"
*Masters of Horror Lisa Episode:"The V Word"

2007
*Stargate Atlantis Harmony Harmony

2009
*Captain Cook's Extraordinary Atlas Gwen Episode:"Pilot"