Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent films, she has received a selection of accolades. Watson attended the Dragon School and trained in acting at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. As a child, she rose to stardom after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having previously acted only in school plays. Watson made her first major forays beyond the Potter franchise starring in Ballet Shoes (2007), and lent her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008).
After the final Harry Potter film, she took on a supporting role in My Week with Marilyn (2011), before starring as Sam, a flirtatious, free-spirited student in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), to critical success. Further acclaim came from portraying Alexis Neiers in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013) and the titular character’s adoptive daughter in Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic Noah (2014). That same year, Watson was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, winning British Artist of the Year.
She also starred as Belle in the live-action musical romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast (2017), and as Meg March in Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age drama Little Women (2019). From 2011 to 2014, Watson split her time between working on films and continuing her education, graduating from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in May 2014. That year, she was appointed a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which advocates for gender equality.
In 2018, she helped launch Time’s Up UK as a founding member. Watson was appointed to a G7 advisory body for women’s rights in 2019, consulting with leaders on foreign policy. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. She also lent her name to a clothing line for the sustainable brand People Tree. In 2020, she joined the board of directors of Kering, a luxury brand group, in her capacity as an advocate for sustainable fashion.
Some of the best quotes from Emma Watson are listed below.
- “As an actress, I take roles I find interesting.” – Emma Watson
- “Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.” – Emma Watson
- “But it’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.” – Emma Watson
- “I don’t have perfect teeth, I do not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.” – Emma Watson
- “I don’t know, I’d love to try some theater. That’s my other thing. I’d love to do some Shakespeare.” – Emma Watson
- “I don’t really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don’t really have the occasion to wear couture too often.” – Emma Watson
- “I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.” – Emma Watson
- “I have collections of quirky things from places I’ve been to, like a set of Russian dolls.” – Emma Watson
- “I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.” – Emma Watson
- “I love fashion. I think it’s so important because it’s how you show yourself to the world.” – Emma Watson
- “I love painting and have a need to do it.” – Emma Watson
- “I think when I was younger I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn’t sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.” – Emma Watson
- “I was working on ‘Harry Potter’ while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.” – Emma Watson
- “I wasn’t one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.” – Emma Watson
- “I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.” – Emma Watson
- “I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.” – Emma Watson
- “I’m really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.” – Emma Watson
- “I’m very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box – Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.” – Emma Watson
- “I’m very romantic and of course, I want to be in love.” – Emma Watson
- “I’ve always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.” – Emma Watson
- “I’ve earned my own money; I’ve traveled the world. What would I rebel against?” – Emma Watson
- “My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.” – Emma Watson
- “My grandma said – when I was really young and I’d sing along to the radio – why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.” – Emma Watson
- “Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that’s gonna surprise me.” – Emma Watson
- “Some days, for some reason, I can’t go anywhere, and I’m like, ‘That was a mistake,’ and other days no one will even notice me.” – Emma Watson
- “The difficulty for me is that I’m interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll end up doing four or five different things.” – Emma Watson
- “The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It’s important to me to feel like I have my own life.” – Emma Watson
- “To be honest, I’ve always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10.” – Emma Watson
- “When I haven’t been working I’ve tried to travel a lot.” – Emma Watson
- “When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.” – Emma Watson
