The Harry Potter films have made Emma Watson the highest paid female star in Hollywood, she learned $20 million in 2009!
She also went to school in Oxfordshire and got excellent grades in English Literature, Geography and art. She never wanted to leave school to act full time: "school life keeps me in touch with my friends... with reality". Last year, Emma went to Brown University in the USA to study the arts. She wants her time at Brown to be "normal": "I want to do it properly, like everyone else".
Emma Watson helped to create a clothes collection for 16- to 24- years old and modelled some clothes. She went to Bangladesh to see how fair trade helps the people who work in clothing factories there: "you can help people by buying the clothes they make". Emma Watson also changed her image recently by cutting her hair. She has become a fashion icon, a cool student and a supporter of good causes.
Emma WatsonNew News of Emma Watson with birth name Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson, was born on 15 April 1990, Paris, France. Emma Watson is an English actress and model who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series. Emma Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously acted only in school plays.
From 2001 to 2010, Emma Watson starred in seven Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint; Emma Watson will return for the final installment: the second part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Emma Watson's work on the Harry Potter series has earned her several awards and more than £10 million. Emma Watson made her modelling debut for Burberry's Autumn/Winter campaign in 2009.
In 2007, Emma Watson announced her involvement in two non-Harry Potter
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson, also known as Emma Watson is a British film actress who is widely known for her role in Harry Potter as Hermione Granger. She was born in 15 April 1990 in Paris, France to lawyer parents Jacqueline and Chris. She has a brother named Alex who is three years younger than her. When Emma was five years old, her parents divorced and this event forced her and her brother to move to Oxfordshire to live with their mother. She had her earlier education in The Dragon School, a private preparatory school and she studied here until 2003. After that she shifted to an all girl school named the Headington School. She attended the GCSE examination in 2006 for ten subjects and won eight A+ and two A grades.Emma Watson does not have a boyfriend and she thinks that her celebrity status is partly responsible for this. She says, �Guys are either intimidated by me, or they have defences up, or they like to take the piss out of me."
She was a very talented girl, not only in the studies but also in a variety of fields like acting, poetry etc. At the age of seven Emma won first prize in a school poetry competition.
When she was nine years old an agent who were in search of young talents across Briton to audition for the parts of Harry, Ron and Hermione found her and after several auditions she was got selected for the role of Hermione in the Harry Potter film series. Emma recalls that she auditioned for the part as Hermione because her friends did and she thought it would �be a laugh�, her drama teacher at the time recommended Emma to the casting agents who obviously saw the same potential in her.
At the age of ten she starred in her first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone �the first one in the series of Harry Potter movies taken from the hugely popular books written by J.K Rowling. The movie was a huge hit worldwide and she got the kind of start for her career that she really deserves.Even though J.K Rowling had not yet met Emma, she told in a phone conversation with her that Emma is absolutely perfect for the role of Hermione. She also won critical acclaim from movie critics all over the world for her performance in Harry Potter.
When her first Harry Potter movie released, she was ten years old and she has since appeared in all subsequent Harry Potter films: Chamber of Secrets (2002), Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and Goblet of Fire (2005), and has finished filming Order of the Phoenix which is all set to release July 3 this year.
Earlier in 2007 some sources reported that she refused to sign contract to appear in the final two Harry Potter films but in late March this year her commitment to those final two films was confirmed by Warner brothers.
She is extremely committed to her character Hermione in the Harry Potter series "I could never let Hermione go--she is my hero! I love her too much and love what playing her has meant to me. I am excited and honoured to be finishing what I started and playing her in all seven of the films� she said in an interview.
Just like in the movie which made her so famous, her real life is also full of magical things. She loves art and poetry. She also loves sports like Hockey, netball, tennis, table tennis, rounders, and golf. Her favourite pass time activities are spending time with her family, dancing, singing and traveling. Her musical interests include singing, hip hop, blues, and classic rock, including Eminem, Eric Clapton, U2 and Nelly Furtado.
She also played Hermione in a special mini episode of Harry Potter named the �The Queen's Handbag� in celebration of the queens 80th birthday.
At the age of fifteen she became the youngest person to appear on the cover of the Teen Vogue magazine by shattering the previous record of Willa Holland. She also served as one of the four juries to select the 2004 teen-aged filmmakers' "First Light" for the Film Award ceremony in Leicester Square in London along with Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Morton.
She won the Otto silver award for best female film star in 2003 and also won Best Female Child Artist: Phoenix Film Critics Society, for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And in 2006 she won a best female film star gold award from Otto.
She loves watching movies and few of her favourite films are Shawshank Redemption, Dirty Dancing, Gladiator, Braveheart, Grease, Pride and Prejudice, Amelie, Shrek 1 & 2, Finding Nemo, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pretty Women, Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and Closer.
May be you also wanting to know about her favourite snacks, well here it is, she loves Toast, Smoothies, and the Chocolate and Cream Starbucks Frappuccino. And do you know that she has got two pet cats named Bubbles and Domino.She may be a big celebrity now but she still loves hanging out with friends and likes to be treated like a normal teenager.
