Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. She rose to prominence with her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. Watson also starred in the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and lent her voice to The Tale of Despereaux. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. She is a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe.
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Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. She rose to prominence with her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. Watson also starred in the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and lent her voice to The Tale of Despereaux. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning British Artist of the Year. She is a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which advocates for gender equality. Watson graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in May 2014. In 2013, she had become certified to teach yoga and meditation. In an interview with Elle Australia, she said that an uncertain future meant finding a way to always feel safe and at home within herself. She has said she speaks some French, though “not as well” as she used to. She also lent her name to a line of clothing for People Tree. Watson was born on 15 April 1990 in Paris, France, to English lawyers Chris Watson and Jacqueline Luesby. She moved to Oxford with her mother and brother, and attended the Dragon School, remaining there until 2003. From age six, she wanted to become an actress, and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, where she studied singing, dancing, and acting. In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in ten subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades.
She took a gap year after completing secondary school, to film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows beginning in February 2009, but asserted that she intended to continue her studies. In March 2011, after 18 months at the university, Watson announced that she was deferring her course for a semester or two though she attended Worcester College, Oxford during the 2011–12 academic year as part of the Visiting Student Programme. Her other film roles include Regression, Colonia, and The Circle. She went on to star as Belle in the 2017 musical romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast, and Meg March in the coming-of-age drama Little Women, the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In a 2014 interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Watson said just before graduation that it took five years to finish instead of four because, owing to her acting work, she ended up taking two full semesters off. In May 2007, Watson took AS levels in English, Geography, Art, and History of Art, The following year, she dropped History ofArt to pursue the three A levels, receiving an A grade in each subject. She had never acted professionally prior to theHarry Potter series, but she had performed in school plays including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. After eight auditions, producer David Heyman told Watson and fellow applicants that they had been cast in the school school of Harry Potter.
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