Emma Watson Personal Details

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an glish actress, model and activist. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and indepdt films, as well as for her wom's rights work, she has received a selection of accolades, including a Young Artist Award and three MTV Movie Awards. Watson has be ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influtial people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.

Watson attded the Dragon School and trained in acting at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. As a child, she rose to stardom after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having previously acted only in school plays. Watson also starred in the Ballet Shoes (the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes) and lt her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008). After the final Harry Potter film, she took on a supporting role in My Week with Marilyn (2011), before starring as Sam, a flirtatious, free-spirited studt in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), to critical success. Further acclaim came from portraying Alexis Neiers in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (2013) and the titular character's adoptive daughter in Darr Aronofsky's biblical epic Noah (2014). That same year, Watson was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, winning British Artist of the Year. She also starred as Belle in the live-action musical romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast (2017), and as Meg March in Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age drama Little Wom (2019).

From 2011 to 2014, Watson split her time betwe working on films and continuing her education, graduating from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in glish literature in May 2014. That year, she was appointed a UN Wom Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Wom campaign HeForShe, which advocates for gder equality. In 2018, she helped launch Time's Up UK as a founding member. Watson was appointed to a G7 advisory body for wom's rights in 2019, consulting with leaders on foreign policy. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. She also lt her name to a clothing line for the sustainable brand People Tree. In 2020, she joined the board of directors of Kering, a luxury brand group, in her capacity as an advocate for sustainable fashion. In 2023, she launched Rais, a gin brand that she co-founded with her brother Alex.

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Watson lived in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris until age five. Her parts divorced wh she was young, and Watson moved to gland to live with her mother in Oxfordshire while spding weekds at her father's house in London.

But she had never acted professionally prior to the Harry Potter series. After the Dragon School, Watson moved on to Headington School, Oxford.

In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in t subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades. In May 2007, she took AS levels in glish, Geography, Art, and History of Art. The following year, she dropped History of Art to pursue the three A levels, receiving an A grade in each subject.

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In a 2014 interview on The Ell DeGeres Show, Watson said just before graduation that it took five years to finish her degree instead of four because, owing to her acting work, she ded up taking two full semesters off.

In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the film adaptation of British author J. K. Rowling's best-selling novel. Casting agts found Watson through her Oxford theatre teacher, and producers were impressed by her confidce. After eight auditions, producer David Heyman told Watson and fellow applicants Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint that they had be cast in the roles of the school frids Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, respectively. Rowling supported Watson from her first scre test.

The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was Watson's debut scre performance. The film broke records for oping-day sales and oping-weekd takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001.

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A year later, Watson reprised her role as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second instalmt of the series. Reviewers praised the lead actors' performances. The Los Angeles Times said Watson and her co-stars had matured betwe films,

In 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released. Watson was appreciative of the more assertive role Hermione played, calling her charismatic and a fantastic role to play.

Critics lauded Watson's performance; A. O. Scott of The New York Times remarked: Luckily Mr. Radcliffe's blandness is offset by Ms. Watson's spiky impatice. Harry may show off his expanding wizardly skills ... but Hermione ... earns the loudest applause with a decidedly unmagical punch to Draco Malfoy's deserving nose.

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Although Prisoner of Azkaban proved to be the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film in the tire series, Watson's personal performance won her two Otto Awards and the Child Performance of the Year award from Total Film.

With Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), both Watson and the Harry Potter film series reached new milestones. The film set records for a Harry Potter oping weekd and oping weekd in the UK. Critics praised the increasing maturity of Watson and her teage co-stars; The New York Times called her performance touchingly earnest,

And Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that Watson's gutsy, confidt performance nicely shows that inside and outside the world of magic there is a growing discrepancy betwe a teage girl's status and her accelerating emotional and intellectual developmt.

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For Watson, much of the film's humour sprang from the tsion among the three lead characters as they matured. She said, I loved all the arguing. ... I think it's much more realistic that they would argue and that there would be problems.

In 2006, Watson played Hermione in The Que's Handbag, a special mini-episode of Harry Potter in celebration of Que Elizabeth II's 80th birthday.

The fifth film in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoix, was released in 2007. A huge financial success, the film set a record worldwide oping-weekd gross of $332.7 million.

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As the fame of the actress and the series continued to rise, Watson and her Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint left imprints of their hands, feet and wands in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on 9 July 2007.

That month, Watson's work on the Harry Potter series was said to have earned her more than £10 million, and she acknowledged she would never have to work for money again.

Watson with co-stars Daniel Radcliffe (left) and Rupert Grint (right) at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in July 2011

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Prior to the release of Order of the Phoix, the future of the Harry Potter series was in jeopardy, as all three lead actors were hesitant to sign on to continue their roles for the final instalmts.

She explained that the decision was significant, as the films represted a further four-year commitmt to the role, but evtually conceded that she could never let [the role of] Hermione go,

Watson's first non-Potter role was the 2007 BBC film Ballet Shoes, an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Noel Streatfeild.

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The film's director, Sandra Goldbacher, commted that Watson was perfect for the starring role of aspiring actress Pauline Fossil: She has a piercing, delicate aura that makes you want to gaze and gaze at her.

The following year, she voiced the character Princess Pea in the animation The Tale of Despereaux, a childr's comedy starring Matthew Broderick, with Harry Potter co-star Robbie Coltrane also starring in the film.

Principal photography for the sixth Harry Potter film began in late 2007, with Watson's part being filmed from 18 December to 17 May 2008.

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With the lead actors in their late tes, critics were increasingly willing to review them on the same level as the rest of the franchise's all-star cast, which the Los Angeles Times described as a comprehsive guide to contemporary UK acting.

While The Daily Telegraph described the lead actors as newly liberated and ergised, eager to give all they have to what's left of the series.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was released in November 2010 while the second film was released in July 2011.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 became a commercial and critical success. The highest-grossing film in the franchise, it grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide and proved to be Watson's most commercially successful film to date.

Watson appeared in a music video for One Night Only, after meeting lead singer George Craig at the 2010 Winter/Summer Burberry advertising campaign. The video, Say You Don't Want It, was screed on Channel 4 on 26 June 2010 and released on 16 August.

In her first post-Harry Potter film, Watson appeared in My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant who briefly dates protagonist Colin Clark, portrayed by Eddie Redmayne.

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Based on the 1999 novel of the same name. Filming began