Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson, also known as Emma Watson, is a British Actress, and also a renowned activist. She was born on 15th April 1990. She is best known for her character like Hermione Granger, who was Harry Potter’s best friend, in the entire Harry Potter film franchise. This was based on JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels. She is a successful model and gained recognition due to her women’s rights work. According to Forbes and Vanity Fair, she is ranked the world’s highest-paid actress, and also, in 2015, Time Magazine mentioned her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Before Harry Potter, she had acted in school plays and also in a television adaptation based on the novel Ballet Shoes. She even voiced for The Tale of Despereaux in 2008. She is also known for her role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, where she appeared as a flirtatious, free-spirited student, in 2012. In 2013, she won the British Artist of the Year and was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Her highest-grossing film of all time was Beauty and the Beast, in 2017, which was a musical romantic fantasy.
She is a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and launched many Women campaign that advocates for gender equality, such as HeForShe. She is a founding member of Time’s Up UK and a G7 advisory body for women’s rights. She consults with leaders about foreign policies.
Other than this she has many modelling works, that includes Burberry and Lancôme. People Tree, a sustainable brand, has a line of clothing in Emma Watson’s name. She is also a part of the board of directors of a luxury brand, called Kering, and there she advocates for sustainable fashion.
As of 2021, Emma Watson’s net worth is $85 million. The source of her wealth is her profession as an actress, model, and millions of dollars of endorsements with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry, Calvin Klein, and Lancome.
Emma Watson’s Wiki/Biography
Emma Watson was born on 15th April 1990. And as of 2021, she is 31 years old. She grew up in Paris, in the family of English lawyers Chris Watson and Jacqueline Luesby.
Emma Watson, until she was 5 years old lived in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris. Then, her parents got divorced and Watson moved to England. There she lived with her mother, in Oxfordshire. She used to spend her weekends in London, at her father’s house. Emma Watson can speak French, though according to her it is not up to the mark.
She moved to Oxford and started living with her mother and brother. There she attended the Dragon School, till the year 2003. Since she was 6 years old, she aimed to become an actress. She was a part of the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, where she trained part-time. In theatre school, she studied dancing, singing, and acting. When she reached the age of 10, she had already performed in many school plays and in Stagecoach productions. One of her famous stage plays was Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. She stepped into the professional file of acting with the Harry Potter series.
After completion of studies in the Dragon School, Watson took admission to the Headington School, Oxford. Then she was already shooting for movies and so even being on the film sets, she was tutored for up to five hours every day. Emma Watson took GCSE school examinations, in June 2006, in ten subjects, and achieved a brilliant eight A* and in the rest of the two A grades. She also took AS levels in English, Geography, Art, and History of Art, in May 2007. She dropped from History of Art and pursued the three A levels. She amazingly received an A grade in each subject.
Emma Watson took a one-year gap right after finishing her secondary school studies. This was for shooting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Parts 1 & 2, in February 2009. But, her dedication to studying was proven when she chose to get admitted to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Watson deferred from her course for a semester or two, after 18 months, in 2011. During the 2011–12 academic year, she attended Worcester College, Oxford. She enrolled in the Visiting Student Programme. She took five years to complete her studies instead, rather than four years because of her acting career, and she took off for two semesters. She completed her bachelor’s degree from Brown University in English literature.
