Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both solicitors from the United Kingdom, welcomed Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson into the world in Paris, France. When she was five, her family relocated to Oxford shire, where she attended the Dragon School. Emma began training at Stagecoach Theatre Arts in Oxford, a part-time theater school, when she was six years old since she knew she wanted to be an actor. There, she studied acting, singing, and dancing. She had been in and acted in several Stagecoach performances and school plays by the time she was ten.
Casting for the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which is based on the best-selling book by British author J.K. Rowling, began in 1999. Casting directors found Emma through her theater instructor in Oxford. After eight consistent auditions, producer David Heyman informed Emma, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint that they had been chosen for the three lead roles of Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which premiered in 2001, marked Emma’s feature film debut. The movie became the most profitable film of 2001 after breaking opening weekend and opening day sales records. The three major young actors’ performances in the film got significant praise from critics. In July 2014, the British actor Emma Watson was named a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. The distinguished performer, activist, and recent Brown University alumna will focus her work on empowering young women and will support UN Women’s HeForShe initiative to advance gender equality.
Emma, who is only 24 years old, has long been working to promote girls’ education and has already been to Zambia and Bangladesh as part of her humanitarian work. In addition to acting as an ambassador for Camfed International, a campaign to educate girls in rural Africa, she has campaigned to promote fair trade and organic apparel. Emma is most known for her role as the illustrious Hermione Granger in the wildly successful “Harry Potter” films. For her performance in the series’ opening film, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” she was given the Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor. Emma has shown her range as an actress after the eight-part series concluded with her first screen appearances, including the Golden Globe-nominated “My Week with Marilyn” in 2011 and the acclaimed coming-of-age picture “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in 2012. In recognition of her performance in the latter, Emma received the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor and the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actor. Emma was most recently seen in “The Bling Ring,” the apocalypse comedy “This is the End,” and the epic biblical tale, “Noah.” Her upcoming projects include “Regression” opposite Ethan Hawke and the film adaptation of “The Queen of the Tearling.”
In 2012 Emma was honored with the Calvin Klein Emerging Star Award at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards, and in 2013 she was awarded both the Trailblazer Award at the MTV Movie Awards and the GQ Woman of the Year Award.
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