What Does Emma Watson Look Like Now

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.

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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Emma glowed in a plunging black sleeveless top and long white feathery skirt as she attended the BAFTAs in March 2022. She’s grown into such a style icon.The British actor was 10 years old when she began filming her breakout role in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, ” subsequently co-starring in the following six movies.

After starring in films like “The Bling Ring, ” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and “The Circle, ” she said she “wasn’t very happy” while being a movie star. Her last film was 2018’s “Little Women.”

“I wasn’t very happy, if I’m being honest, ” Watson, 33, told Financial Times in an interview. “I think I felt a bit caged. The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn’t have very much control over. To stand in front of a film and have every journalist be able to say, ‘How does this align with your viewpoint?’ It was very difficult to have to be the face and the spokesperson for things where I didn’t get to be involved in the process.” 

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Watson said that she was held accountable “in a way that I began to find really frustrating, because I didn’t have a voice, I didn’t have a say.”

“And I started to realize that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn’t make me hate myself, ‘Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better, ’” she said.

Watson found a new creative avenue with writing and directing a campaign for Prada. She called it a “very” big moment for her.

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“People always told me I should direct and produce, even when I was on ‘Potter, ’” she said. “I was worried it was just technical, not creative, and I couldn’t bring what I think is probably my skill set.”

It was thanks to her brother, Alex Watson, and friends asking her to do a photo shoot or make a video that made her realize she could try her hand at filmmaking.

“I actually know quite a lot about that. Being a director seemed unattainable. I don’t think I had any confidence in that, ” she said. “I know it seems weird. I mean, I grew up on a film set.”

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Watson will continue to direct. She already has a gig set directing a music video for an artist she can’t reveal but people have “definitely heard of him.”

As for what she currently enjoys is working with her brother on his newly launched gin, Renais, which is pronounced “Renée” and means “rebirth.” 

“What I really love is the culture here of the harvest. I like coming together with everyone. I like the rituals around it and the history and the connection with the people here, ” she said of the small French town Chablis where her family has long visited. “For me it’s about family and community and it makes me feel grounded that there’s somewhere I can come back to, year after year after year.” 

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She does, however, plan to act again. Per the magazine, if all goes to plan, she will begin shooting in early 2024.

“Yes, absolutely. But I’m happy to sit and wait for the next right thing. I love what I do, ” Watson said. “It’s finding a way to do it where I don’t have to fracture myself into different faces and people. And I just don’t want to switch into robot mode any more. Does that make sense?”

“I felt really sad and really pissed off about a lot of things. I learned more about love and being a woman, ” she wrote in part, also detailing how therapy helped her and all the things she did during her time away from the spotlight. “It took me three years, but I have finally figured out a daily practice and can actually keep it for more than a few days in a row.”

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Liz Calvario is a Los Angeles-based reporter and editor for  who covers entertainment, pop culture and trending news. She enjoys rocking a stylish outfit, a good cup of coffee, traveling and the soulful sounds of the Backstreet Boys.