Emma Watson

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

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. 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. 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. She has said she speaks some French, though "not as well" as she used to. At age 5, Watson was diagnosed with primarily hyperactive-impulsive ADHD, a condition for which she has been medicated ever since. After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, she attended the Dragon School, remaining there until 2003. From age six, she wanted to become an actress, and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing, and acting.

## Family

Emma Watson is the daughter of Chris Watson, an English lawyer and owner of a vineyard Domain Watson in Chablis and Jacqueline Luesby, a French lawyer that work mostly in England. Emma Watson is half French by her mother side. She has one brother, Alex Watson, with whom she founded a premium Gin brand named Renais. 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."

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. In June 2009, Watson said that she would be helping Burberry by being a part of their new Autumn/Winter 2009 collection. 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.

## Filmography

|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Year|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Film|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Role|style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2001|_Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_|rowspan="5"|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||||||
|rowspan="2"|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_|rowspan="2"|Hermione Granger|Nominated for Best Actress Scream Award||||
|2010/2011||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|||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Emma Watson
- **image**: Emma Watson 2, 2013.jpg
- **caption**: Watson in May 2013
- **birth name**: Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson
- **birth place**: Paris, France
- **nationality**: British, French
- **years active**: 1999–present