Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson born on April 15th, 1991 in Paris ,France. She has a three year-old younger brother, Alex. When Emma was five they moved back to England, her parents got divorced and Emma started living with her mum in Oxford.
Emma attended Lynams School, the nursery school for the prestigious Dragon School in Oxford. Emma played in several school plays, ‘Arthur: The Young Years’, ‘The Happy Prince’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and won the “Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition” when she was seven.
In 1999, when Emma was nine, her teacher nominated her and a few friends, for doing an audition as Hermione Granger. Eventually Emma got the part and then everything began.
The next Emma was filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and the next she was on several premieres and shooting the other films as well.
In 2005, Emma was the youngest ever on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine.
In 2007, Emma finished filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and took her GCSEs. She earned eight A*s and two As.
In summer of 2007 Emma filmed Ballet Shoes, a BBC film based on the popular book by Noel Streatfield, that summer and began Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in September.
In 2008, Emma voiced her first animated character, with the role of Princess Pea in Universal Pictures’ The Tale of Despereaux.
In September 2009 Emma started studying in Ivy League Brown University in the United States. She began with studying English but switched to History.
Emma also was the face of Burberry in 2009, Autumn/Winter 2009 Burberry campaign. In 2010 Emma returned once more to Burberry as the face of their Spring/Summer 2010 campaign together with her brother Alex.
Emma has also worked closely with organic and fair trade pioneer People Tree, helping founder Safia Minney develop a teenage range for Spring/Summer 2010. Her clothing line launched in February 2010.
In June 2010 the cast and crew completed filming Deathly Hallows. In August Emma was spotted in New York with short hair. She told in several interviews, that cutting her hair felt incredible and was liberating.
