Renée Dwyer

"You can come home whenever you want - I'll come right back as soon as you need me."

- Renée to Bella Swan

Renée Dwyer (née Higgenbotham, formerly Swan) was born to Marie Higgenbotham and her husband. She is Phil Dwyer's wife the ex-wife of Charlie Swan, the mother of Bella Swan, the mother-in-law of Edward Cullen, and the grandmother of Renesmee Cullen.

Personality traits and physical appearance
Bella describes her as being very eccentric, an experimental chef, forgetful, and very perceptive. She also looks a lot like her daughter. She has short brown hair, innocent, childish blue eyes and a round face full of laugh lines. According to Bella, she is more like the mother and Renée the child.

Renée has very negative views of early marriages, since she married Charlie right out of high school. This is something Bella feared when she got engaged to Edward. But Renée revealed that those views of marriage only apply to herself. Edward says that her thoughts are childish, but sees the world very clearly. At one point in the Twilight film, Renée describes herself as someone who "repels technology" as she is always misplacing her phone charger.

History
Renée and Charlie married young and gave birth to Bella on September 13, 1987. They divorced in March 1988. Renée moved to Riverside, California, where she and Bella lived until Bella was five years old. Bella and Renée then moved to Phoenix, Arizona where they remained until Bella was seventeen.



Twilight
Renée fell in love with minor league baseball player Phil Dwyer and married him before the beginning of Twilight. Because Bella was attending school in Phoenix, Renée couldn't spend very much time with Phil who traveled around because of his job, and thus she was unhappy. Bella decided to live with her father, Charlie Swan, in Forks, so Renée and Phil could have more time together.

The first time Renée meets Edward is in Twilight, after Bella was attacked by James, in the hospital. Edward tells her that Bella fell down two flights of stairs and went through a window, which resulted in her bad injury. She later tries to convince Bella to move to Jacksonville with her and Phil, only to have Bella refuse and decide to stay in Forks with Edward and Charlie.

New Moon
Renée remains absent in New Moon, but has been mentioned by Charlie. According to him, Renée visited Forks shortly after Edward and his family left, when Bella became catatonic. She intended to move Bella to Jacksonville to help her move on, but she snapped immediately in front of them. She convinced them to let her stay, but Renée remained increasingly worried about her daughter's health condition until Jacob made her feel better. Edward's return made her daughter completely normal again.



Eclipse
In Eclipse, since Phil is busy, Bella and Edward being alone with her only heightens Renée's focus. She told Bella she noticed that Edward was very intense and protective around her, and she felt like she was missing out on something. But Bella quickly reminds her that she has been reading too many mystery and sci-fi novels, and tells her to stick to romance.

In the film adaptation of Eclipse, she gives Bella a quilt made of her personal T-shirts to keep her warm in Alaska after hearing that she is attending college there.

Breaking Dawn
In Breaking Dawn, Bella tells Renée about her engagement with Edward, and, despite her reluctance against teen marriage, she accepts her daughter's decision wholeheartedly. She is present while making wedding plans with Esme and during her daughter's wedding.

Renée becomes a grandmother during Bella and Edward's honeymoon, but she does not learn of her granddaughter's existence, nor does she know that Bella has become a vampire afterward. She is only told that her daughter got sick following the wedding, and is slowly recovering.

Charlie Swan
Charlie was Renée's first husband, married when they were both very young. Renée had Bella with him, and shortly thereafter realized that she had rushed into marriage. She decided to divorce him, although he remained somewhat in love with her.

Phil Dwyer
Renée's second husband is a minor league baseball player. They fell in love around 2004 and married soon after. They had planned on marrying on a beach in Mexico, but it didn't go that way. Unlike her first marriage, they seem to be having a success in their relationship.



Bella Swan
Bella Swan is Renée's daughter. She took Bella away from Forks when she was still a baby. They are each other's best friends, and Bella has always loved her. After Renée married Phil, Bella realizes that she feels unhappy when he travels around for his job, and decides to move back to Forks to live with her father for awhile. After Renée and Phil permanently relocate to Jacksonville, Florida, she tries to convince her daughter to move with them, but Bella decides to live in Forks to stay with her new boyfriend, Edward Cullen.

She fully supports her daughter's decision to marry Edward in Breaking Dawn, even though she has deeply negative views on teen marriages, and adapts to her new in-law family very quickly. They grew gradually distant after Bella became a vampire, but stayed in touch with each other.

Appearances

 * Twilight
 * Twilight film
 * New Moon (Mentioned)
 * New Moon film (Mentioned)
 * Eclipse
 * Eclipse film
 * Breaking Dawn
 * Breaking Dawn - Part 1
 * Midnight Sun (Mentioned)



Film portrayal
Actress Sarah Clarke portrayed Renée in Twilight and Eclipse. She will also reprise her role in the first part of Breaking Dawn.