Emma Watson

Known for ActingBorn 1990-04-15 (age 36)Paris, France

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and activist. She has gained recognition for her roles in both blockbusters and independent films, as well as her women's rights work. Watson has been ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015. Watson attended the Dragon School and trained in acting at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. As a child, she rose to stardom after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having acted only in school plays previously. Watson also starred in the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and lent her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008). After the final Harry Potter film, she took on a supporting role in My Week with Marilyn (2011), before starring as Sam, a flirtatious, free-spirited student in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) to critical success. Further acclaim came from portraying Alexis Neiers in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (2013) and the titular character's adoptive daughter in the biblical epic Noah. That same year, Watson was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, winning British Artist of the Year. She also starred as Belle in the musical romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast (2017), which ranks among the highest-grossing films of all time, and Meg March in the coming-of-age drama Little Women (2019). From 2011 to 2014, Watson split her time between working on films and continuing her education, graduating from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in English literature in May 2014. That year, she was appointed a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which advocates for gender equality. In 2018, she helped launch Time's Up UK as a founding member. Watson was appointed to a G7 advisory body for women's rights in 2019, consulting with leaders on foreign policy. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. She also lent her name to a clothing line for the sustainable brand People Tree. In 2020, she joined the board of directors of Kering, a luxury brand group, in her capacity as an advocate for sustainable fashion.Read more

Movies & web series

An Audience with Adele

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Little Women

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Pickled

50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Colonia

When Harry Left Hogwarts

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Beauty and the Beast

Howard

My Week with Marilyn

Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter

Ballet Shoes

Late Show with David Letterman

This Is the End

The Early Show

The Tale of Despereaux

(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story

Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown

Noah

Regression

The Circle

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Bling Ring

Taff

The Children's Party at the Palace

The Million Dollar Nickel

Elle Style Awards

Little Women (2019) Behind-the-Scenes Greta Gerwig: Women Making Art