The young star rose to fame as the aforementioned Hermione Granger in the film franchise adaptation of the Harry Potter series. Emma was introduced to the world as a baby girl, turned teenager, and a confident young woman when the series ended in 2011. Emma sported cute and gorgeous looks on the red carpets during her time when she was still taking pictures classes at Hogwarts and we even got to see how his fashion sense developed from movie to movie.
As Emma entered the next chapter of her career, the star took on more mature roles. She has appeared in films like Charlie’s World (2012), The Bling Ring (2013), Noah (2014), and more. At the same time, Emma became a college graduate, earning her BA in English Literature from Brown University in 2014. Emma also used her platform to tackle gender inequalities and continued to be an ally of the feminist movement.
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Childhood
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in the Marais 2 in Paris 3 on April 15, 1990. She is the daughter of Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, a couple of British lawyers practicing in France and spends her first five years at Maisons-Laffitte. Her parents separated a few years after the birth of her younger brother Alex Watson 6 in 1995. Following this divorce, she moved with her mother and brother to the county of Oxford in England. She nevertheless spends weekends at her father’s house in London. She speaks a little French, but “not as well” as during her childhood in France. She occasionally returns to France, where her grandparents live.
She has two half-sisters, twins Lucy and Nina Watson and a half-brother Toby Watson. She spent her primary school years first at Lynams School, kindergarten of the Dragon School in Oxford, from September 1995 to June 1998. She then went to the Dragon School, from September 1998 until June 2003. It was during this period that she began filming the Harry Potter saga. When she arrives on the set, she is only 10 years old.
She suddenly becomes famous, and her school must impose special regulations to ensure her peace. To prevent all the students from harassing her, they therefore do not have the right to ask her for an autograph, or even to ask for her, under penalty of receiving “negative points” which may result in disciplinary sanctions. However, these provisions do not apply to her friends, but to those she does not know.
Career
Before starring in the Harry Potter film series, she was still very young and her acting experience was limited to a few minor roles in school plays, for example Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. Among her other activities at school was the Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition, which she won at the age of seven.
Casting for the first part of the saga
In 1999, the casting for the film Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone began. Young Emma is contacted by a casting agent who discovered her thanks to her drama teacher. To land her role in the Harry Potter films, she passed eight auditions and was ultimately selected from among 35,000 applicants, the producers having been impressed by her confidence. Emma Watson is chosen to play Hermione Granger, at the age of ten, in the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The film is a huge box office success in several countries. It is the most profitable of the year 2001. Critics find her portrayal “admirable” ( The Daily Telegraph ), and IGN even says she stole the show from her co-stars. She was nominated for five awards for her performance in The Wizarding School, winning the Young Artist Award.
A year later, she once again played the role of Hermione in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ), the second installment in the series. Critics once again welcome the interpretations of the main actors. Emma received an Otto Award for Best Female Actress, awarded by a vote of the readers of the German magazine Bravo Otto, for the quality of her performance. She finished in second place, behind Liv Tyler, and ahead of Keira Knightley.
In 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment of the Harry Potter series, was released. This film is the one that meets the least success of the entire Harry Potter series but Emma Watson still wins two Otto Awards, and the performance of the year for a child awarded by Total Film.
In 2005, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth installment of the Harry Potter film series, broke all previous records, including that at the box office, for its opening weekend. This record is broken both in the US and UK, as well as against previous episodes of the series. Critics praise in particular the “ever increasing maturity” of Emma Watson.
The second part of the saga
Despite the success of the Order of the Phoenix, the future of the Harry Potter franchise is uncertain: the three main actors are reluctant to sign a new contract to continue their respective roles. Daniel Radcliffe finally signs for the next episodes, while Emma Watson is less enthusiastic. She explains that the decision is important, and that the films represent an additional four-year commitment for the role. Upon reflection, she believes that she “could never let the role of Hermione fly away: she is heroine!” », And signs his new commitment on March 23, 2007.
The sixth film in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, originally scheduled for November 2008, is released late on July 25, 2009. With the main actors now in their late teens, critics are more willing to examine them at the same level as the rest of the film’s cast. The Los Angeles Time quotes them as “a guide for British actors” 28, while the Washington Post considers that Emma Watson, in particular, has given “her most charming interpretation to date”. The Telegraph, for its part, believes that the three main actors played “liberated new energy to the film.”
Recognition by the movie
Emma Watson occupies the first place of the most profitable actresses of the decade 2000 – 2009. In March 2009, she is ranked 6th on the list Forbes of “Stars most profitable teen”, and the female actress best paid Hollywood, with gains estimated at 19 million pounds in February 2010.
The same year, she won the Britannia Awards, rewarding personalities from British and American cinema and television. She dedicates this prize to her hamster, who died during the shooting of the first film of the Harry Potter saga.
In May 2016, her name was mentioned in the Panama Papers affair: she confirmed having had recourse to Mossack Fonseca, not for tax reasons, but for “reasons of confidentiality like many famous celebrity“, and insists that she did not receive tax benefits in this way. Also in 2016, she took a stand against Brexit, that is to say for keeping her country within the European Union.
Fashion and modeling
At fifteen, she became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine. She also participates in a jury, with Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Morton, to choose the young directors “First Light” of 2004, during the award ceremony of the films in Leicester Square in London.
She received the Otto Award several times from the readers of the German magazine: in 2003 and 2004, she was respectively second and third. From 2005 to 2009, she was in first place five times in a row. It was again third in 2011, and second in 2012.
While Emma Watson resumed her university studies, she became the advertising face of the British brand Burberry for the autumn / winter 2009 37 campaign, then 2010.
It was also in 2010 that the line of clothing for adolescents Love from Emma was released, inspired by fashion from London and the south of France. She is launching this line in collaboration with Safia Minney, the founder of the People Tree brand. The products are sold in several countries (United States, Japan) and it intends to support the values of this brand, whose products used are from organic farming, and sold in compliance with fair trade standards. Her commitment to the benefit of the brand is selfless: she is not remunerated in this context, when she almost took an 86 sabbatical year to complete this project.
In December 2010, she made the front page of Marie Claire’s monthly issue, one of the most famous fashion magazine, which for the first time was animated for the iPad version of the magazine with the Trésor Midnight Rose fragrance, as well as Rouge in Love 87 lipstick. In 2011, she became the new face of Lancôme.
Fight for the rights of women
After the appointment of Alan Rusbridger as President of Lady Margaret Hall, she became a Visiting Fellow (Honorary Fellow ) of that college at Oxford. Asked about her beliefs during the shooting of the film Noah in 2014, she declared herself a universalist.
Net worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Emma Watson has a net worth of approximately $ 80 million as of July 2019. In 2017/2018, the richest claimed his fortune was $ 60 million.
Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations
In July 2014, she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador by UN Women. In September of the same year, she delivered a remarkable speech at the headquarters UN in New York, and calls men and women to make the gender equality a priority. For her, feminism is not a detestation of men (“ no man-hating ”), but a positive attitude towards gender equality. During this speech, she seems rather annoyed. She later indicated that it was linked to having received threats to dissuade her from going up to the podium, shortly before her intervention. Her speech is approved in particular by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, who declares that she identifies as a feminist thanks to her.
Before her feminist engagement, Emma Watson was interested in the education of young girls around the world. She had visited Bangladesh and Zambia for this purpose.
In March 2015, AskMen magazine named her “Most Outstanding Woman of the Year”. She is among the 100 most influential people of 2015 by Time magazine.
Also in September, she made her first trip as a Goodwill Ambassador to Uruguay. She holds a speech to encourage women to participate in the political life of their country. Two months later, the American organization Ms. Foundation for Women named her a feminist celebrity, based on an online vote count. She also gave a speech on gender equality in January 2015, during the annual winter meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Private Life
In november 2019, Emma Watson says she is very happy to be single – which took a long time for her, having initially been stressed and anxious at the “subliminal messages” that were sent back to her while she was getting away from it all headed into her thirties without a companion or baby – and presents herself as in a relationship with herself – I call it being self-partnered. This declaration is widely commented on and in particular taken up on their own account by single people in order to describe their situation.
The expression “self-partnered” is included in the same year in the Urban Dictionary, with a meaning that differs from celibacy by a happy situation and an absence of need or search for a romantic relationship. CNN sees it as a sign of “a golden age of celibacy”, in connection with the fact that it is more and more widespread among young people. This tendency is mainly feminine, but also concerns men. Some observers equate Emma Watson’s statement with Selena Gomez songs about her blissful celibacy since split from Justin Bieber Such as Lose You to Love Me and Look at Her Now, or similar statements made by Ariana Grande, Lizzo and Gwyneth Paltrow.
The expression ” self-partnered ” is also a claim of a higher need for self-fulfillment, as defined by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow, in his pyramid of needs, and the opposite of the stereotypical image that identifies the lonely woman with an unattractive woman or a situation of desperate loneliness, even antisocial. The historian Amy Froide, of the University of Maryland, notes that, if in 2019 no one uses the pejorative term “old maid” to name the actress, she feels compelled to resort to a neologism which, unlike to the more common term “single”, suggests that in the absence of a better partner, she stays with herself.
Filmography
●2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ‘s Stone by Chris Columbus
●2002: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Chris Columbus
●2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Alfonso Cuarón
●2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Mike Newell
●2007: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by David Yates
●2008: The Tale of Despereaux by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen
●2009: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by David Yates
●2010: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 by David Yates
●2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 by David Yates
●2011: My Week with Marilyn by Simon Curtis
●2012: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
●2013: The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola
●2013: This Is the End by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
●2014: Noah by Darren Aronofsky
●2015: Regression of Alejandro Amenábar
●2015: Colonia by Florian Gallenberger
●2017: Beauty and the Beast by Bill Condon
●2017: The Circle by James Ponsoldt
●2019: Little Women by Greta Gerwig