Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is a British actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts.
- Born : April 15, 1990 (age 27), Paris, France
- Height : 1.65 m
- Education: Brown University (2009–2014), more
- Siblings : Nina Watson, Lucy Watson, Toby Watson, Alex Watson
- Parents : Jacqueline Luesby, Chris Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is a British actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. She rose to prominence after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having acted only in school plays previously. Watson appeared in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, earning worldwide fame, critical accolades, and around $60 million.
Watson continued to work outside of the Harry Potter films, lending her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and appearing in the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes. Since then, she has taken on starring roles in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) and The Bling Ring (2013), made a brief appearance as an exaggerated version of herself in This Is the End (2013),and portrayed the title character’s adopted daughter in Noah (2014). In 2017, she portrayed Belle in a live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Her other releases include Regression (2015), Colonia (2015) and The Circle (2017).
From 2011 to 2014, Watson split her time between working on film projects and continuing her education, studying at Brown University and Worcester College, Oxford and graduating from Brown with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in May 2014. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. As a fashion consultant, she helped create a line of clothing for People Tree.[12] She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning for British Artist of the Year. That same year, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality.
Early life
Watson was born in Paris, France, the daughter of English lawyers Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. Watson lived in Paris until the age of five. Her parents separated when she was young; following their divorce, Watson moved back to England to live with her mother in Oxfordshire while spending weekends at her father’s house in London.Watson has stated that she speaks some French, though “not as well” as she used to. After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, she attended the Dragon School in Oxford, remaining there until 2003.From the age of 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.
By the age of ten, Watson had performed in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince,but she had never acted professionally before the Harry Potter series. Following the Dragon School, Watson moved on to Headington School.While on film sets, she and her peers were tutored for up to five hours a day. In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in ten subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades.
Education
Watson at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival After leaving school, Watson took a gap year to film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows beginning in February 2009, but said she intended to continue her studies and later confirmed that she had chosen Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.In March 2011, after 18 months at the university, Watson announced that she was deferring her course for “a semester or two”, though she attended Worcester College, Oxford during the 2011–12 academic year as a “visiting student”.
Watson told Ellen DeGeneres just before graduation that it took five years to finish instead of four because, due to her acting work, she “ended up taking two full semesters off”. On 25 May 2014, she graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. In 2013, she became certified to teach yoga and meditation. As part of this certification, she attended a week-long meditation course at a Canadian facility, in which residents are not allowed to speak, in order “to figure out how to be at home with myself”. She told Elle Australia that an uncertain future meant finding “a way to always feel safe and at home within myself. Because I can never rely on a physical place.”
Women’s rights work
Watson has promoted education for girls, visiting Bangladesh and Zambia to do so.In July 2014, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. In September that year, an admittedly nervous Watson delivered an address at UN Headquarters in New York City to launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality. In that speech she said she began questioning gender-based assumptions at age eight when she was called “bossy” (a trait she has attributed to her being a “perfectionist”) whilst boys were not, and at 14 when she was “sexualised by certain elements of the media”. Watson’s speech also called feminism “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities” and declared that the perception of “man-hating” is something that “has to stop”.Watson later said she received threats within 12 hours of making the speech, which left her “raging. … If they were trying to put me off [of doing this work], it did the opposite”. In 2015, Malala Yousafzai told Watson she decided to call herself a feminist after hearing Watson’s speech.
Also in September, Watson made her first country visit as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador to Uruguay where she gave a speech highlighting the need for women’s political participation.In December, the Ms. Foundation for Women named Watson its Feminist Celebrity of 2014 following an online poll. Watson also gave a speech about gender equality in January 2015, at the World Economic Forum’s annual winter meeting.
Watson took the top spot on the AskMen “Top 99 Outstanding Women 2015” list on the strength of having “thrown her back” into women’s rights issues.The day after she turned 25, Watson placed number 26 on the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people; her first-ever appearance on the list. For its recap, former New York Times editor Jill Abramson noted Watson’s “gutsy, smart take on feminism” and called the effort to get men involved “refreshing”.
In January 2016, Emma Watson started a feminist Goodreads book club: Our Shared Shelf. The goal of the club is to share feminist ideas and encourage discussion on the topic. One book is selected per month and is discussed in the last week of that month. The first book to be selected was My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem, whom Emma Watson would later interview on 24 February at the How to: Academy in London.
Watson was criticised in March 2017 for a photograph published by Vanity Fair in which her breasts are partly visible; some in the news media accused Watson of hypocrisy. Watson was confused by the backlash, arguing that feminism “is not a stick with which to beat other women” but is instead about freedom, liberation and equality. “I really don’t see what my tits have to do with it”.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | Hermione Granger | Chris Columbus | Also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | |||
| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón | ||
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Mike Newell | ||
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | David Yates | ||
| Ballet Shoes | Pauline Fossil | Sandra Goldbacher | Television film | |
| 2008 | The Tale of Despereaux | Princess Pea | Sam Fell Robert Stevenhagen |
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| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Hermione Granger | David Yates | |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | |||
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | |||
| My Week with Marilyn | Lucy | Simon Curtis | ||
| 2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Sam | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 2013 | This Is the End | Herself | Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg |
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| The Bling Ring | Nicki Moore | Sofia Coppola | ||
| 2014 | Noah | Ila | Darren Aronofsky | |
| 2015 | The Vicar of Dibley | Reverend Iris | Andrew Gaynord | Television programme; episode: “The Bishop of Dibley”[132] |
| Colonia | Lena | Florian Gallenberger | ||
| Regression | Angela Gray | Alejandro Amenábar | ||
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Belle | Bill Condon | |
| The Circle | Mae Holland | James Ponsoldt |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Organisation | Award | Work | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Saturn Awards | Best Young Actor | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | Nominated | |
| Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Youth Performance | Nominated | |||
| Empire Awards | Best Debut (shared with Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint) | Nominated | |||
| Young Artist Awards | Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress | Won | |||
| Best Ensemble in a Feature Film (shared with Rupert Grint and Tom Felton) | Nominated | ||||
| 2003 | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Acting Ensemble | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Nominated | |
| Best Performance by a Youth in a Leading or Supporting Role – Female | Won | ||||
| 2005 | Critics’ Choice Awards | Best Young Actress | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Best Young Actress | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Nominated | ||
| Australian Kids’ Choice Awards | Favourite Female Movie Star | Nominated | |||
| MTV Movie Awards | Best On-Screen Team | Nominated | |||
| 2007 | National Movie Awards | Best Performance by a Female | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Won | |
| 2008 | Empire Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | People’s Choice Awards | Favorite On-Screen Team | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Nominated | |
| MTV Movie Awards | Best Female Performance | Nominated | |||
| Teen Choice Awards | Actress Fantasy | Nominated | |||
| 2011 | Capri Art Film Festival Awards | Best Ensemble Cast Award | My Week with Marilyn | Won | |
| Kids’ Choice Awards | Favorite Movie Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Nominated | ||
| People’s Choice Awards | Favorite Movie Star (Under 25) | Nominated | |||
| Empire Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | |||
| National Movie Awards | Performance of the Year | Nominated | |||
| MTV Movie Awards | Best Female Performance | Nominated | |||
| Best Kiss (shared with Daniel Radcliffe) | Nominated | ||||
| Best Fight (shared with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Arben Bajraktaraj and Rod Hunt) | Nominated | ||||
| Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie: Actress Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Won | |||
| Choice Movie: Liplock (shared with Daniel Radcliffe) | Won | ||||
| Choice Summer Movie: Female | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Won | |||
| 2012 | Kids’ Choice Awards | Favorite Movie Actress | Nominated | ||
| People’s Choice Awards | Favorite Ensemble Movie Cast | Won | |||
| Favorite Movie Star (Under 25) | Nominated | ||||
| Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |||
| MTV Movie Awards | Best Female Performance | Nominated | |||
| Best Kiss (shared with Rupert Grint) | Nominated | ||||
| Best Cast (shared with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton) | Won | ||||
| Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Nominated | ||
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
| Best Ensemble Performance | Won | ||||
| Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Runner-up | |||
| 2013 | People’s Choice Awards | Favourite Drama Movie Actress | Won | ||
| MTV Movie Awards | Best Female Performance | Nominated | |||
| Best Kiss (shared with Logan Lerman) | Nominated | ||||
| Best Musical Moment (shared with Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller) | Nominated | ||||
| MTV Trailblazer Award | Won | ||||
| Teen Choice Awards | Actress Drama | Won | |||
| Movie – Liplock (shared with Logan Lerman) | Nominated | ||||
| Choice Style Icon | N/A | Nominated | |||
| 2014 | People’s Choice Awards | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | This Is the End | Nominated | |
| Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Actress: Drama | Noah | Nominated | ||
| Britannia Awards | British Artist of the Year | N/A | Won | ||
| British Fashion Awards | Best British Style | N/A | Won | ||
| 2017 | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Best Performance in a Movie | Beauty and the Beast | Won | |
| Best Kiss (shared with Dan Stevens) | Nominated | ||||
| Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Actress: Drama | The Circle | Pending |
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