Character: Jacob Black

Played by Taylor Lautner (Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3D)

Because their fathers Charlie and Billy are longtime friends, Bella Swan has known Jacob Black longer than almost anyone else in the town of Forks. Two years younger than Bella, Jacob goes to school on the Quileute Indian reservation where he lives with his father, a respected elder in the close-knit community.

For years, Jacob has paid no mind to the tribal stories of wolf-men and their bloodsucking nemeses, the “cold ones,” although his close friendship with Bella Swan might reveal that the Quileute tales may just be more than the stuff of legend.