Emma Watson

Emma Watson is an English actress who became known as a child for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, her first professional acting role after school plays. She was born in Paris on 15 April 1990, grew up in Oxfordshire and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. Beyond Harry Potter she appeared in the BBC television film Ballet Shoes, voiced a character in The Tale of Despereaux, and took roles in My Week with Marilyn, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bling Ring, Noah, Beauty and the Beast and Little Women. She also worked as a model and as a fashion adviser, sat on the board of the luxury group Kering from 2020 to 2023, and was appointed a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014, when she helped launch the HeForShe campaign. She graduated from Brown University in 2014.