Emma Watson Harry Potter Age

She’s not a witch anymore! Harry Potter alum Emma Watson has changed so much since the start of her 20-year career — but at the same time, the longtime actress looks nearly the same as she did when she was discovered. Needless to say, her transformation over the years has been iconic.

Emma was born in Paris in 1990 but moved to England when she was 5 years old after her parents’ divorce. She knew she wanted to be an actor from a young age and started training at age 6, shortly after she moved to Oxford with her mother. She was cast as Hermione Granger in the renowned children’s film series in 1999 after a whopping eight rounds of auditions. Casting agents for the film discovered her through her acting teachers at the Stagecoach Theatre Arts school.

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Since becoming a breakout star through the 8-film franchise — alongside costars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint — she has gone on to star in many films, including

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. From 2011 to 2014, she juggled her acting career and her education while attending Brown University, an Ivy League college in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature.

Throughout her time in the spotlight, the actress has dated several guys — but it appears she has found her Mr. Right in boyfriend Leo Robinton, whom she started dating in October 2019. “Emma seems to have found the guy she wants to be partnered with in Leo, ” an insider exclusively revealed to

Her beau is “handsome and smart” and all of the couple’s mutual friends “approve of their romance, ” the source dished. Emma has introduced the businessman to her family, “who are very picky, ” the insider noted. “But they’ve all given her their thumbs up. Leo’s definitely a keeper.”

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It seems the private A-lister may have been set up with Leo by friends. “I’m very lucky in the sense that because I went to university and because I’ve done these other things outside of film, ” Emma told Vogue in 2019. “My friends are really good at setting me up. Really good. And what’s really nice is some of my best friends are people I got set up on a date with and it didn’t work out.”

Emma was thrilled to announce in November 2021 that she, Daniel and Rupert would be joining forces once again for a reunion special entitled

On HBO Max on January 1, 2022. “I am proud not just of what we as group contributed as actors to the franchise but also as the children that became young adults that walked that path, ” she wrote on Instagram. “I look at my fellow cast members now and I am just so proud of who everyone has become as people. I am proud we were kind to each other that we supported one another and that we held up something meaningful.”

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There are still marathons of the movies running on cable TV for Christmas each year. HBO even released the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special on January 1, 2022.

Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson at the Hand, Foot, and Wand-Print Ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on July 8, 2007, in Hollywood, California (Carrie Nelson / Shutterstock)

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It’ll be interesting to see how much further the series can go and where its now grown-up stars’ careers will go, too.

Speaking of the stars, isn’t it incredible that those actors had such a powerful screen presence at such a young age? Let’s take a look at how old each of the child actors was during the filming of the movie and how they were chosen for their roles.

Imagine being Christopher Columbus working on the first Harry Potter movie. You and your crew are responsible for picking child actors for an iconic series that must play these characters for a decade’s worth of movies.

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Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in the 2001 fantasy film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

That’s a heavy responsibility! It took seven months of searching in 2000 before Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint were chosen for the roles.

Radcliffe was discovered by producer David Heyman and writer Steve Kloves in a theater. He already had a role in a BBC production of David Copperfield.

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Daniel Radcliffe was 12 years old when the first Harry Potter movie based on J. K. Rowling’s 1997 novel of the same name premiered in November 2001 (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

In hindsight, the casting is super impressive – it takes a keen eye to find talent like that, and the three never really had any big scandals either, so they got lucky in that department, too! Big props to casting director Janet Hirshenson for finding these talented kids.

Interestingly enough, Christopher Columbus stipulated that all the actors that were cast HAD to be British. He stuck to that rule hard, and even turned down Robin Williams for the role of Hagrid because of it!

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They ended up trying to give Daniel Radcliffe green contact lenses to match Harry’s description. Reportedly, the casting team had trouble finding the right actor because so many of the kids who auditioned had brown eyes and just wouldn’t have been able to wear the colored contacts because their eyes were too dark.

Daniel Radcliffe had an allergic reaction to the green color contacts he was supposed to wear in the movie (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

As it turns out, Daniel ended up having an allergic reaction to the green color contacts. While Harry Potter had green eyes in Rowling’s books, the author agreed to let Potter have blue eyes in the films.

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“It was brilliant because we put the glasses on and eventually we realized that I was allergic to them, ” Radcliffe said about his first pair of Potter glasses.

“I was actually allergic to the Harry Potter glasses. Because I had these two rings of whiteheads and spots that had come up around my eyes and it took us a week to realize that it was actually the glasses.”

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Daniel Radcliffe had some acting experience but Emma Watson and Rupert Grint had never acted prior to Harry Potter (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

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In addition to that, they also wanted Emma Watson to wear fake buck teeth to better look like the nerdy Hermione. However, Radcliffe’s eyes had a bad reaction to the contacts and Watson had trouble speaking with the buck teeth in, so those ideas were eventually discarded.

When Radcliffe was in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, he was only eleven years old – he turned twelve around when the movie was released.

Funnily enough, he really wasn’t interested in playing Harry Potter at first at all! After his role in David Copperfield, he intended to quit acting altogether.

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His parents wanted him to quit and focus on schoolwork, too. But producer David Heyman was able to convince him (and his parents) otherwise.

Maggie Smith as Betsey Trotwood and Daniel Radcliffe as David Copperfield in the 1999 BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1850 novel David Copperfield (Credit: BBC)

What a sharp thing for an eleven-year-old to do! Incidentally, the main reason Harris took on the role was because his eleven-year-old granddaughter told him that she’d never speak to him again if he turned down Dumbledore. Harsh!

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The story of how Rupert Grint was cast as Ron Weasley is so fun. He actually performed a rap about himself and taped it to send into the studio!

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He did a sketch dressed as his female drama teacher, too, and then did a video where he actually read some lines as Ron.

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint was 13 years old when Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released in November 2001 (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

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He said that Harry Potter had actually been his favorite book series growing up and that Ron was always his favorite character. What a lucky kid to be able to play him on the big screen!

It’s funny, though, because Grint’s ambition in life was not really to be an actor. In fact, his dream was to become an ice cream man.

So, after he cashed some Harry Potter checks, he went out and bought an ice cream truck of his own and drove it around to give out free ice cream.

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According to Janet Hirshenson, there really weren’t that many actresses that were seriously in the running for Hermione, even though thousands applied.

She went on to say that the hardest part about casting Hermione was that they had to find someone who could play an annoying know-it-all without being too annoying – the audience still had to find her lovable.

Emma Watson was truly the one that swept

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