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Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress, model and activist. She is known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

Emma Watson
File:Emma Watson 2, 2013.jpg
Watson in May 2013
Born
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson[1]

15 April 1990 
     (aged 35)
[2]
Paris, France
NationalityBritish, French
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Actress
  • model
  • activist
Years active1999–present

Outside of Harry Potter, she has acted in several other movies. She is also well known for her leading role in Beauty and the Beast. She became the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in July 2014.[3] As late as 2019, Watson performed in the film adaption of Little Women, playing Meg. She is also an activist for gender equality.

Early life and education

Emma Watson was born on 15 April 1990 in Paris, France to English father Chris Watson and French mother Jacqueline Luesby.[2][4][5][6][7] Watson lived in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris until the age of five. Her parents divorced when she was young, and Watson moved to England to live with her mother in Oxfordshire while spending weekends at her father's house in London.[4][8] Watson has said she speaks some French, though "not as well" as she used to.[9] After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, she attended the Dragon School, remaining there until 2003.[4] From age six, she wanted to become an actress,[10] and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing, and acting.[11]

Family[12] [7]

Emma Watson is the daughter of Chris Watson, an English lawyer and owner of a vineyard Domain Watson[13] in Chablis and Jacqueline Luesby, a French lawyer that work mostly in England. Emma Watson is half French by her mother side.[7] She has one brother, Alex Watson, with whom she founded a premium Gin brand named Renais.[14][15] Watson also has three half-siblings on her father side, Toby, Lucy and Nina, and two step-siblings on her mother side.

Fashion

As Watson has grown older, she has become more interested in fashion. She says that she thinks fashion is like art, which she studied in school. In September 2008, she told a blogger, "I've been focusing on art a lot, and fashion's a great extension of that."[16]

In 2008, the British news reported that Watson was going to be the model for the fashion house Chanel instead of Keira Knightley, but both Watson and Knightley said that this was not true.[17][18] In June 2009, Watson said that she would be helping Burberry by being a part of their new Autumn/Winter 2009 collection.[19][20][21] She was later a part of Burberry's 2010 Spring/Summer campaign with her brother Alex, musicians George Craig and Matt Gilmour, and Max Hurd.[22][23]

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Hermione Granger Released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US and India
Nominated for Best Performance by a Young Actor Saturn Award
Nominated for Best Debut at Empire Awards
Nominated for Best Youth Performance PFCS Award
Won Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress Young Artist Award
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Nominated for Best Youth Performance PFCS Award
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Nominated for Best Young Actress Critics Choice Award
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Nominated for Best Young Actress Critics Choice Award
Nominated for Best On-screen Actress MTV Movie Award
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Nominated for Best Actress at Empire Awards
Won Best Performance by a Female National Movie Award
Ballet Shoes Pauline Fossil Television movie shown on BBC One
2008 The Tale of Despereaux Princess Pea Voice part
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Hermione Granger Nominated for Best Actress Scream Award
2010/2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows A two part movie.
2011 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Sam
2011 My Week with Marilyn Lucy
2013 This Is the End Emma Watson
2014 Noah Ila
2015 The Vicar of Dibley Reverend Iris
2015 Colonia Lena
2015 Regression Angela Gray
2017 Beauty and the Beast Belle Real life Disney adaptation of the Disney adaptation, “Beauty and the Beast”, based on the novel Belle et la Bete, by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in 1740
2017 The Circle Mae Holland
2019 Little Women Meg Real life movie adaptation of the book “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott

Emma Watson Media

  • Watson at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in November 2005

  • Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Rupert Grint (left to right) at the world premiere of Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 in London, England

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    Watson promoting The Circle in 2017

  • Emma Watson figure at Madame Tussauds London.jpg

    Watson's wax figure at Madame Tussauds wearing an Elie Saab design

  • "Paddington Bear" London (15925013020).jpg

    Watson's butterfly themed "Flutterby Bear" (right), one of fifty Paddington Bears along 'The Paddington Trail' in London, auctioned for the NSPCC

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    Watson delivering an address at the Legislative Palace of Uruguay as a UN Women Ambassador in 2014

  • Emma Watson 2012 Shankbone.JPG

    Watson at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival

References

  1. ↑ "Emma Watson". Late Show with David Letterman. CBS. 8 July 2009. No. 3145.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Walker, Tim (29 September 2012). "Emma Watson: Is there Life After Hermione?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120930001033/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/emma-watson-is-there-life-after-hermione-8190401.html. Retrieved 12 January 2008. 
  3. ↑ Emma Watson named as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. 8 July 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/emma-watson-appointed-un-women-goodwill-ambassador-9590993.html. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  5. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil). (click appropriate actor's image, click "Actor Bio")
  6. ↑ Barlow, Helen. "A life after Harry Potter". The Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/news/film/a-life-after-harry-potter/2007/07/01/1183228944244.html. Retrieved 16 March 2006. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  8. ↑ Self, Will (17 August 2012). "Emma Watson, The Graduate". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/t-magazine/emma-watson-the-graduate.html. 
  9. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  10. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  11. ↑ Reece, Damian (4 November 2001). "Harry Potter drama school to float". The Daily Telegraph (UK). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2740527/Harry-Potter-drama-school-to-float.html. Retrieved 8 March 2010. 
  12. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  13. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  14. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  15. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  16. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  17. ↑ Neate, Rupert (19 June 2008). "Chanel: 'No contract' for Harry Potter's Emma Watson". The Daily Telegraph (London). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2157750/Chanel-No-contract-for-Harry-Potters-Emma-Watson.html. Retrieved 18 April 2009. 
  18. ↑ Kay, Nathan (15 June 2008). "Chanel casts a £3million spell on Mademoiselle Hermione". The Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1026524/Chanel-casts-3million-spell-Mademoiselle-Hermione.html. Retrieved 18 April 2009. 
  19. ↑ Nicholl, Kate (12 April 2009). "That's magic – Potter star Emma Watson makes her competition vanish". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1169274/That-8217-s-magic--8211-Potter-star-Emma-Watson-makes-competition-vanish.html. Retrieved 12 April 2009. 
  20. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  21. ↑ Craik, Laura (9 June 2009). Harry Potter star Emma Watson charms Burberry. The Evening Standard. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/fashion/article-23705207-details/Harry+Potter+star+Emma+Watson+charms+Burberry/article.do. Retrieved 28 June 2009. 
  22. ↑ Alexander, Hilary (5 January 2010). "Emma Watson is Burberry's spring/summer 2010 poster girl". The Daily Telegraph (London). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/hilaryalexander/6937799/Emma-Watson-is-Burberrys-springsummer-2010-poster-girl.html. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 
  23. ↑ "Thanks, big sis! It's a Watson double act as Emma recruits her brother for Burberry". The Daily Mail (London). 7 January 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1240969/Emma-Watson-brother-new-Burberry-campaign-together.html. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 

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