Emma Chárlotte Duérre Watson, known as Emma Watson, was born on April 15th 1990, in Paris,
France.
She lived in France with her parents Jacqueline and Chris, lawyers both of them, till she
was 5 years old.
When they split up, Emma moved to Oxford with her mom and her brother, 3 years younger than
her, Alexander.
He also works as a model and actor.
Apart from Alex, Emma has 3 half siblings on her dad’s side, Toby, the twins Nina
and Lucy, and two step brothers on her mom’s side.
She is the eldest of all.
She did theater since she was a kid and she participated in several plays at school: The
Young Years, The Happy Prince and Alice in Wonderland.
Apart from her interest in acting, Emma has always been a very sportive girl, and she
also liked dancing, reading and writing.
When she was 9, her big opportunity arrived.
She did her first casting, recommended by her theater teacher, for the movie Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and even tho she had to go through 8 different trials before
she got the role that would give her world fame, she had the support from J.K.
Rowling (the author of the books) from the very beginning.
Finally, she got the part, and she turned into the know-it-all Hermione Granger, the
tireless partner in crime of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
For the next 10 years, Emma was very busy playing the young witch for the 8 different
movies in the Harry Potter cinematographic saga.
The actress loved Tom Felton, the actor who played Draco Malfoy, because he was older
and had that bad boy thing going on.
From this experience, apart from lots of millions of pounds, she takes with her a strong friendship
with her filming partners Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
They are like brothers to her!
During the breaks between shootings, she was the protagonist of the BBC tv movie Ballet
Shoes in 2007, and she was the voice of Princess Pea (pii) in the animated story The Tale of
Déspereaux in 2008.
As Hermione, Emma is very hardworking at school.
While filming, she would take every day 5 hours of class, taught by a private tutor,
to be able to keep up with her studies.
When the saga finished, she wasnt sure whether she wanted to be an actress or not, but she
did know she wanted to go to College.
She enroled in the prestigious Brown University and, after a year in Oxford, she went back
to Rhode Island, where she graduated with a degree on English Literature in the spring
of 2014.
Emma Watson is the perfect example that there is life after Harry Potter.
Far from being categorized, she was able to balance her studies with the filming of several
movie, both independent and commercial.
My Week with Marylin in 2011, The Perks of Being a Wallflower in 2012…
In 2013, she was the protagonist of Bling Ring by Sofia Cóppola, and she had a small
part in This Is The End.
In 2014, she acted in the ensemble movie Noah with Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins, among
others.
In 2015, she participated in Regression, by the Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar.
In 2016, she participated in the movies Colonia and The Circle.
Emma is also involved in the world of fashion.
She was the protagonist of a couple of campaigns for Burberry and an ambassadress for Lancome.
She always shows up flawless on the red carpet, where she promotes eco-fashion.
The actress is a great defender of womens rights.
She was appointed UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and she is also the ambassadress for the campaign
HeForShe.
In September 2014, she gave an stricking speech about the necesity of bringing forces together
in order to end inequality between men and women.
Emma still loves reading and writing, she keeps several diaries and she’s created
an online reading club.
In February 2016, she announced she would stop acting for a year in order to focus on
the feminist movement.
We saw her again in 2017 as a Disney Princess for the new The Beauty and the Beast movie.
Emma Watson, apart from having an unstoppable career, is a great defender of equality, in
politics, in economics and in society, and she is right now also fighting against sexual
abuse.
She is such an inspiration!