Shares her birthday with her Beauty and the Beast co-star Luke Evans. |
Auditioned eight times (at age 9) for the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, playing opposite five prospective sets of Harry's before landing the part. |
Has kept a painstakingly detailed log of her everyday life since her film career took off, as many as 30 journals in total. |
Includes Justin Timberlake and Alanis Morissette among her favorite singers. |
Passed her driving test in the US in 2008 and drives a Toyota Prius. |
Emma Watson has stated that, since her audition at age 9 through the completion of 8 Harry Potter features by age 22, the hectic, educational experience consumed over half her life. |
Emma's favorite filmmakers are Richard Curtis, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Sofia Coppola, Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Lynne Ramsay, Ang Lee, and Tom Hooper. |
Emma's favorite television shows include Friends (1994), Sex and the City (1998), Girls (2012), Gossip Girl (2007), America's Next Top Model (2003), Mad Men (2007), House of Cards (2013) and Pride and Prejudice (1995). |
Emma's favorite actresses are Julia Roberts, Renée Zellweger, Sandra Bullock, Rebel Wilson, Goldie Hawn, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Natalie Portman and Meryl Streep. |
Emma's favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Russell Crowe. |
Emma's style icons include Jean Seberg, Mia Farrow, Kate Bosworth, Diane Kruger, Jane Birkin, Edie Sedgwick, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Sofia Coppola, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Françoise Hardy, Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Obama. |
Graduated from Brown University with an AB in English Literature on May 25, 2014. |
She enrolled in a Shakespeare course at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts during the summer of 2008. |
Was in a relationship with Will Adamowicz from 2012-2013. The couple met while studying at Oxford University in 2011. |
Was offered the titled lead in "Cinderella" but turned it down. |
Ranked #29 on Askmen's list of the Top 99 Most Desirable women for 2013. |
Is the former roommate and current best friend of America's Next Top Model (2003) Cycle 18 winner, Sophie Sumner. |
Voted #17 on Ask Men's top 99 'most desirable' women of 2012. |
Ranked as having one of the most beautiful famous faces by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She was ranked #2 in 2010, #12 in 2009, #27 in 2008, #30 in 2007, and #54 in 2006. |
Ranked #29 in the 2010 FHM UK list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World". |
Ranked #23 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World". |
Ranked #15 in the 2011 FHM Australia of "100 Sexiest Women". |
Has worked closely with the organic and fair trade pioneer People Tree. |
Both of her parents are lawyers. |
Best friends with Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint after practically growing up with them on the Harry Potter set. She calls them her 'brothers'. |
Was ranked #69 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 women of 2011 list. |
Her publicist, Vanessa Davies, said that Emma will transfer from Brown University to another school in the Fall of 2011 [April 24, 2011]. |
When she made a promotional appearance on a Dutch TV talk show for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), the interview ended with her joining the Dutch illusion act Magic Unlimited, who sawed her in half. |
Was named the 'Highest Grossing Actress of the Decade' by the Guiness Book of World Records. Her film work in the past decade has grossed over 5.4 billion dollars worldwide (2009). |
Announced that she would be would collaborating with People Tree, a Fair Trade Fashion Company, as a creative advisor for the new Spring/Summer collection. [2009] |
She was ranked #3 on Teen Vogue's list of the Best Dressed celebrities of 2009. |
She was ranked #8 on Portrait Magazine's 'Top 30 Under 30' list. [2009] |
Was named the face of the 2009 Fall/Winter Burberry Campaign. [2009] |
She was ranked #6 on MSN's list of 'Best Dressed Stars of 2009'. |
Was ranked #3 on Empire Magazine's '100 Sexiest Movie Stars' list. |
Was Entertainment Weekly's "Entertainer of the Month" for the month of July (2009). |
Has said that she'd like to work with directors Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro. |
Was ranked #8 in Portrait Magazine's 'Top 30 Under 30' (2009). 'Harry Potter' cast mates Evanna Lynch, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe also made the list on the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 14th and 18th place respectively. |
Entering Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S.A. after completion of the Harry Potter Movies (July 21, 2009).to study literature. |
Radio One's movie critic James King named "Ron Weasley" and "Hermione Granger", played by Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, as number 4 in his Top 5 Movie Couples list on The Colin and Edith Show (2006). |
In 2008, BoyDestiny wrote and sang the song "You Got Me Going", also known as The Emma Watson Song. |
Was ranked #3 on Moviefone's '25 Hottest Actors Under 25'. [2008] |
Her parents divorced in 1995; each parent has since remarried. On her father's side, she has a younger half-brother, Toby, born 2003, and half-sisters (identical twins) Lucy and Nina, born in 2004. Lucy and Nina played the younger version of her character Pauline in Ballet Shoes (2007). She also has two stepbrothers through her mother's remarriage. |
Ranked #4 by Portrait Magazine for favorite celebrities by fans' vote. Her Harry Potter co-star Bonnie Wright Had also Ranked #5. |
Is a fan of The Golden Compass (2007) and the rest of the fantasy trilogy 'His Dark Materials' by Philip Pullman. |
Ranked #94 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list. [2008] |
Was ranked #28 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list. [2008] |
Emma's favorite movies include Notting Hill (1999), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), About Time (2013), Giant (1956), Breathless (2008), Amélie (2001), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Fountain (2006), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Gladiator (2000), Braveheart (1995), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Philomena (2013), Blue Jasmine (2013), Rush (2013), 12 Years a Slave (2013), La grande bellezza (2013), The Woodmans (2010), Closer (2004), Pretty Woman (1990), Chicago (2002), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Dirty Dancing (1987), Grease (1978), Shrek (2001), Ice Age (2002), and Finding Nemo (2003). |
In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $4 million. |
Was ranked #97 on Forbes List of The Celebrity 100.(2007). |
Was ranked #3 on 'Yahoo! List of the 10 Most Popular Stars of 2007'. |
Was ranked #26 on Empire Magazine's '100 Sexiest Movie Stars' (2007). |
Was ranked #15 on Forbes List of The 20 Top-Earning Young Superstars.(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. |
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). |
Was born at 6:00pm (GMT + 1 hour) on a Sunday. |
Her parents are both English, and were living in Paris at the time of Emma's birth. Emma lived in France until the age of five, when her family returned to England. |
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. |
She achieved eight A* and two A passes in her GCSEs (exams English school pupils take in their last compulsory year of secondary school). |
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. |
At the age of fifteen became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine. |
She was named after her paternal grandmother, born Freda Emma Duerre who, after marriage, became Freda Emma Duerre Watson. |
She served on a jury to select the 2004 teen-aged film-makers' First Light Film Awards. The ceremony held in London's Leicester Square. Other jurors included Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh, and Samantha Morton. |
Favorite Harry Potter book is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. |
Has two cats, one is named Bubbles and the other is named Domino. |