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Vital Stats
Biography
Emma Watson was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to two lawyers, Jacqueline Duerre and Chris Watson, who divorced in 1995. Her brother Alex was born in 1993. As a young girl, Watson attended The Dragon School, a renowned preparatory school in Oxford. By 2003, she was attending the all-girls Headington School in the city of Oxford.
Before being cast in the Harry Potter films, Watson's performances had been limited to leading roles in school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. Other school activities included the Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition, in which she won first place for her year (age seven).
Hired at age 10, Watson was 11 years old in 2001 when she made her acting debut in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) playing Hermione Granger. She has also appeared in the rest of the Harry Potter sequels.).
Potter fans have expressed mixed opinions about Watson's portrayal of Hermione Granger: Some feel she is perfect for the role; others believe Watson fails to capture Hermione's insecurities and flaws, and complain that she is "too pretty" for the role—a sentiment shared by some film critics—since, in the book series, Hermione was generally described as being very "plain" (neither "pretty" nor "ugly"). The Potter screenplays, however, have made Hermione a more powerful and prominent character than originally written by J. K. Rowling.
Shooting on the Harry Potter films had kept Watson too busy to take on other projects; however, she has expressed interest in expanding her film career beyond the Potter realm.
An avid sports player, Watson enjoys field hockey, tennis and rounders. She has 2 cats named Bubbles and Domino.
Emma shares her name with her grandmother, and with a fictional character in The Watsons, an unfinished novel by English author Jane Austen (later completed by English writer Joan Aiken in her 1996 novel Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed).
She was the youngest actress to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine at age 15. She also served on a jury, along with Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh, and Samantha Morton as jurors, to select the 2004 teenaged filmmakers' "First Light Film Award" ceremony in the Leicester Square in London.
Filmography
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011) (pre-production) as Hermione Granger
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010) (pre-production) as Hermione Granger
• Napoleon and Betsy (2009) (announced) as Betsy Balcombe
• The Tale of Despereaux (2008) (post-production) (voice) as Princess Pea
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2008) (post-production) as Hermione Granger
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) as Hermione Granger
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Hermione Granger
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Hermione Granger
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) as Hermione Granger
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) as Hermione Granger
Source: Wikipedia.org and IMDB.com