Introduction

Emma Watson is a famous and well-known movie star and a model. She has given some of the biggest hits and blockbuster movies for which she has received widespread fame and appreciation. Emma Watson is considered as a highest-earning actress and she was named among the top influential personalities by Time magazine a few years ago. She has done graduation in English Literature from the Brown University in 2014. Emma Watson continued her studies along with working in films during 2011-2014. She is also a model and has done modeling for famous and leading brands like Burberry and Lancome. Emma Watson appeared on the cover page of the leading fashion magazine Teen Vogue when she was just 15. Emma Watson promotes social causes for women's and girl's education. 

Early Life

Emma Watson was born to Chris and Jacqueline Watson who were lawyers in the UK. The family lived in Paris initially. When Emma was five years old, her parents shifted to the UK where she lived thereafter. Emma Watson lived with her mother after her parents were divorced and separated. She shifted to Oxfordshire and joined the Dragon School. Emma developed an interest in acting and movies when she was a child. Emma Watson took training in acting, singing, and dancing in a theatre school at Oxford. It was a part-time school in which she learned the basics of acting skills. After that, Emma Watson acted in several school plays. She began professional acting as a child artist in Harry Potter movies. Emma Watson is remembered by the public with great admiration for her performance in Harry Potter movies as a child star. Her movie was appreciated by the critics and she was the winner of the Young Artist Award. 

Acting Career

Emma Watson was chosen for a role in a Harry Potter movie in 1999. The movie was made on a novel by the famous writer J.K Rowling. Her movies ‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ were successful and big hits. The former went on to become a huge hit and a high revenue earner in the year 2001. Emma Watson has acted in several more Harry Potter movies later. She started performing adult roles in 2012. Her movies were hits at the box office and were received well by the audience and fans. Emma Watson played the role of Meg March in a movie that was made on a novel, Little Women. 

Filmography

Emma Watson has acted in many hit Harry Potter movies since her debut in the first Harry Potter movie in 2001. The characters that she played in these movies were admired by people and got nominated for awards multiple times. Emma Watson has acted in a drama that was based on a novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It received the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie in the Toronto International Film Festival in the year 2012. Emma Watson also got the Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress award for this movie. 

In 2013, the movie The Bling Ring in which Emma Watson was an actress was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival. It was a satirical black comedy movie in which Katie Chang was the co-star of Emma. Emma Watson received the Calvin Klein Emerging Star Award in 2012. Apart from being a successful actress, Emma Watson is also a promoter of social causes in the United Nations. She has been nominated as a goodwill ambassador for encouraging women's empowerment in the UN. Emma Watson has acted in Beauty and the Beast, which was a huge hit.