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Birth Name
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson

Nickname
Em

Height
5’ 6" (1.68 m)

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in France on April 15, 1990. At school in England, she took the lead role in several plays including "Arthur: The Young Years" and "The Happy Prince". Along with plays, Emma participated in many other school productions including the "Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition", in which she won first place for her year at age seven. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) was her debut into the world of professional acting. Competing against many other girls for the role of Hermione Granger, she didn’t expect to get the part.
Away from the cinematic world, Emma enjoys playing hockey most of all and she also likes debating. Although her hair is brown in the movie, she’s naturally a blonde. She once dressed up as a witch for Halloween, but she had no idea that years later, she would be playing one in the Harry Potter movie. Her lawyers parents, Jacqueline and Chris, are divorced. Emma lives with her mother and younger brother Alex. Her role models are Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese and Sandra Bullock.
IMDb Mini Biography By: nynke van schylge

• Has two cats named Bubbles and Domino.
• Favorite Harry Potter book is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
• She served on a jury to select the 2004 teenaged film-makers’ "First Light Film Awards" ceremony held in London’s Leicester Square. Other jurors included Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh, and Samantha Morton.
• At 13, after being a teenager for just ten months, she placed tenth in "The Hottest Female Stars", in February 2004.
• She was named after her paternal grandmother, who, after marriage, became "Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson."
• Can speak some French.
• At the age of fifteen, became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine
• She and her ‘Harry Potter’ co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were named #9 on Entertainment Weekly’s Best Entertainers of the Year in 2005.

• She achieved eight A* and two A passes in her GCSEs (exams English school pupils take in their last compulsory year of secondary school).
• Attended The Dragon School, a renowned preparatory school in Oxford, between September 1995 and July 2001. She then went on to attend Headington School, a private all-girls school, between September 2001 and July 2006.
• Her parents are both English but her paternal grandmother was French. Emma lived in France until the age of 5 and moved to England with her parents.
• Was born at 6:00pm (GMT + 1 hour) on a Sunday.
• Loves water sports, and while in Mauritius gained an Open Water PADI certificate allowing her to SCUBA dive anywhere in the world.
• Whilst filming the third and fourth Harry Potter films she took dance lessons, and has now gained a Silver Award for freestyle dance and street jazz.
• Enjoys playing field hockey, netball and tennis (for school and local teams), skiing, painting, cooking, singing, and dancing (has twice competed with her school in Rock Challenge 2006 and 2007).
• Took AS levels in English, Geography, Art and History of Art in May 2007, and has now dropped History of Art to pursue the three A levels.
• Was ranked #15 on Forbes List of The 20 Top-Earning Young Superstars.(2007).
• Named #26 on Empire Magazine’s 100 Sexiest Movie Stars. (2007).
• Was ranked #3 on Yahoo! List of 10 Most Popular Stars of 2007 on Yahoo! Movies.(2007).
• Was ranked #97 on Forbes List of The Celebrity 100.(2007).
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $4 million.
• Passed her driving test on her first attempt, January 28, 2008.
• Her favorite movie is Notting Hill.
• Her favorite television show is Friends.
• Her favorite actor is Johnny Depp.
• Her favorite actress is Julia Roberts.
• Her favorite item of clothing is jeans.
• Was ranked #28 on Entertainment Weekly’s ‘30 Under 30’ the actress list. (2008).

[in response to a reporter asking her whether she always wore pigtails]: I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits.

[Hardest scene]: Neville comes up to me with his toad, Trevor, and says, "Do you want to kiss Trevor goodnight?" Every time he did this I burst into laughter. I was supposed to give him an "I hate you" look, but I couldn’t help myself. It took me about eight takes to get it.

It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

[On kissing her co-stars]: Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That’s not in my contract!

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

[On how her character, Hermione Granger, has matured]: She’s rock and roll. She’s feisty. Girl power!

[On reporters asking the same questions over and over]: That’s the good thing about them! They all ask exactly the same questions and you can say exactly the same answers! You don’t have to think, you can just stand there like a broken record going LALALA.

[on working with boys]: I like being around mixed company. Dan (Daniel Radcliffe) and Rupert (Rupert Grint) definitely make their fair share of cheeky comments about me being girlie, but it’s all in good fun.

It took me three films to get Hermione in jeans. To get out of the robes with the tights and the itchy jumpers. Whoo-hoo!

I hope my head doesn’t get very big. I’m just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try and lead a normal life.

I love fashion. I think it’s so important, because it’s how you show yourself to the world.

[On being a known actress]: Most people are really nice but some stare, like you’re some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings. Even when you take away all the glamour and attention and premieres and everything, it still comes down to the fact that I’m acting.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words, I don’t know what she’s going on about half the time!

I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but i’ll still be very proud that I was part of the Harry Potter films.

[On her co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, who play Harry and Ron]: More than just friends, they’ve become like brothers. Or sisters, I don’t know. In fact, I don’t see them like normal boys. I mean that I cannot imagine me going out with one of them. For me, they are like my best friends. I can laugh and talk about everything with them without any taboo. I really like them a lot.
[On other roles]: Now that I’ve played the snotty, bossy, posh Hermione Granger, I’d like to play some American high school girl. I want to play something totally different. I want to play every kind of character and every point of view, but I’m probably going to be playing Hermione for a while.
[If she’d sooner have a great Hollywood career or a great marriage]: Hmmmmm… Can’t I have both? But if I would really have to choose, then I’d pick a great marriage. I think it would be amazing if I would get to play beautiful parts and win Oscars, but that would all mean nothing if my parents and friends weren’t there with me. What is success when you don’t have anybody to love? No, I’d rather be happily married.
[On watching the earlier movies]: It’s like baby photos… I look like a chipmunk!
I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)     $4,000,000

(April 2004) Filming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).

(March 2005) Finishing filming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), set for release on November 18th, 2005.

(April 2006) Filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).

(January 2008) Filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Writer Toby Young is emerging as the unlikely British success story of the Cannes Film Festival. 
 
Actor Simon Pegg and actress Gillian Anderson attends the How To Lose Friends and Alienate People party in Cannes

Young’s memoir of his disastrous stint at US magazine Vanity Fair, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, has been adapted for the big screen and launched in Cannes.

It has created a buzz in a festival which is otherwise devoid of British films, and is being hailed as a successor to The Devil Wears Prada.

Simon Pegg, star of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, plays the hapless hero, with Kirsten Dunst as his serious-minded colleague and Jeff Bridges as the fearsome magazine editor.

Young has also managed to sign up Transformers star Megan Fox, recently voted the sexiest woman in the world, to play the object of his affections.

Festival-goers were given a sneak preview of the film, which is due for release in October and is showing in Cannes out of competition.

Young said he was delighted with the results: “It is not always an ego-boosting experience, having a film made of what you’ve written. They have done a fantastic job. It has turned out incredibly well, far better than I could have hoped.”

A party thrown in Young’s honour attracted the likes of Lily Allen, Mischa Barton and Natalie Imbruglia – quite a turnaround for a self-confessed “English chump” whose book recounts his doomed attempts to mix with the rich and famous.

Pegg said he strove to make his character, re-named Sidney in the film, more sympathetic than the real-life Young.

”The character of Sidney is a redeemable, likeable guy who you want to root for – unlike Toby, who is an egomaniac,” Pegg said.

Young was originally on board as the screenwriter but ended up as a producer. His co-producer Stephen Woolley explained: “As soon as we read Toby’s script, we fired him and got someone else to write the screenplay.”

It is an otherwise gloomy picture for British films, which have been excluded from the Palme d’Or competition for the second year running.

British prize hopes rest in the fringe competitions.
Sam Taylor-Wood, the artist, is in the short film section with Love You More, the last project of the director and producer Anthony Minghella.
Brighton-born director Thomas Clay is entered in a sidebar competition with Soi Cowboy, an uncompromising film set in Bangkok’s red light district.
The UK Film Council has tried to appear upbeat about the lack of British films showing in Cannes, citing changing “trends and tastes” among the selectors.