Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson[3]  (born 15 April 1990)[4]  is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence portraying Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, appearing alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint in all eight Potter films beginning in 2001.[5]  Over ten years' time, the franchise earned Watson worldwide fame, critical accolades, and more than £10 million—"enough money never to have to work again".[6]  She kept at it, however; Watson's first work outside Potter included lending her voice to The Tale of Despereaux and appearing in the television adaptationof the novel Ballet Shoes. Since then, she has taken on starring roles in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring, made a brief appearance as an "exaggerated" version of herself in This Is the End,[7]  and portrayed the title character's adopted daughter in Noah.[8]  From 2011 to 2014 she split her time between working on film projects and going to university, graduating from Brown with a degree in English literature.[9]

Watson's modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme.[10] [11]  As a fashion consultant, she helped create a line of clothing for People Tree.[12]

She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning for British Artist of the Year.[13] That same year, Watson was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for "gender equality".[14]



Contents
[hide]  *1 Early life <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 1999–2003: Beginnings and breakthrough
 * 2.2 2004–2011: Continued success with Harry Potter and other roles
 * 2.3 2012–present
 * 3 Modelling
 * 4 Education
 * 5 Personal life
 * 6 Women's rights work
 * 7 Filmography
 * 8 Awards and nominations
 * 9 References
 * 10 External links

Early life
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Watson was born in Paris, the daughter of English lawyers Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmanewbio_15-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gofbio_16-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[16] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lifeafterpotter_17-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[17]  Watson lived in Paris until the age of five. Her parents separated when she was young; following their divorce, Watson moved back to England to live with her mother in Oxfordshire while spending weekends at her father's house in London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmanewbio_15-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTgrad_18-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[18]  Watson has stated that she speaks some French, though "not as well" as she used to.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thehour_19-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[19]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, Watson attended the Dragon School in Oxford, remaining there until 2003.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmanewbio_15-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15]  From the age of six, she wanted to become an actress,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmaemma_20-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[20]  and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing, and acting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-float_21-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[21]  By the age of ten, she had performed in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmaminibio_22-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[22]  but she had never acted professionally before the Harry Potter series. Following the Dragon School, Watson moved on to Headington School.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmanewbio_15-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15]  While on film sets, she and her peers were tutored for up to five hours a day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timescastinterview_23-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[23]  In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in ten subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmanewbio_15-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gcse_24-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[24]

1999–2003: Beginnings and breakthrough
Handprints, footprints and wandprints of (from left to right) Watson, Radcliffe, Grint, 2007<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), the film adaptation of British author J. K. Rowling's best-selling novel. Casting agents found Watson through her Oxford theatre teacher, and producers were impressed by her confidence. After eight auditions, producer David Heyman told Watson and fellow applicants Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint that they had been cast for the roles of the schoolfriends Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, respectively. Rowling supported Watson from her first screen test.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmaemma_20-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[20]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was Watson's debut screen performance. The film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-shatter_25-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[25] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2001gross_26-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[26]  Critics praised the performances of the three leads, often singling out Watson for particular acclaim; The Daily Telegraph called her performance "admirable",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-admirable_27-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[27]  and IGN said she "stole the show".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stole_28-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[28]  Watson was nominated for five awards for her performance in Philosopher's Stone, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-YAA_29-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[29]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">A year later, Watson again starred as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second instalment of the series. Reviewers praised the lead actors' performances. The Los Angeles Times said Watson and her peers had matured between films,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LATCoS_30-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[30]  while The Times criticised director Chris Columbus for "under-employing" Watson's hugely popular character.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-underuse_31-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[31]  Watson received an Otto Award from the German magazine Bravo for her performance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bravo-archiv-2003_32-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[32]

2004–2011: Continued success with Harry Potter and other roles
Watson at the premiere ofGoblet of Fire in November 2005<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released. Watson was appreciative of the more assertive role Hermione played, calling her character "charismatic" and "a fantastic role to play".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-radcliffegrintwatson_33-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[33]  Although critics panned Radcliffe's performance, labelling him "wooden", they praised Watson; The New York Times lauded her performance, saying "Luckily Mr. Radcliffe's blandness is offset by Ms. Watson's spiky impatience. Harry may show off his expanding wizardly skills ... but Hermione ... earns the loudest applause with a decidedly unmagical punch to Draco Malfoy's deserving nose."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTPoA_34-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[34]  Although Prisoner of Azkaban proved to be the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film of the entire series, Watson's personal performance won her two Otto Awards and the Child Performance of the Year award from Total Film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-otto1_35-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[35] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-otto2_36-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[36]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">With Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), both Watson and the Harry Potter film series reached new milestones. The film set records for a Harry Potter opening weekend, a non-May opening weekend in the US, and an opening weekend in the UK. Critics praised the increasing maturity of Watson and her teenage co-stars; The New York Times called her performance "touchingly earnest".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTGoF_37-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[37]  For Watson, much of the humour of the film sprang from the tension among the three lead characters as they matured. She said, "I loved all the arguing. ... I think it's much more realistic that they would argue and that there would be problems."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-igngoblet_38-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[38]  Nominated for three awards for Goblet of Fire, Watson won a bronze Otto Award.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bfc2_39-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[39] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mtv1_40-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[40]  Later that year, Watson became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-igninterview_41-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[41]  an appearance she reprised in August 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vogue2009_42-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[42]  In 2006, Watson played Hermione in The Queen's Handbag, a special mini-episode of Harry Potter in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-handbag_43-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[43]

Watson at the premiere ofHalf-Blood Prince in July 2009<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The fifth film in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was released in 2007. A huge financial success, the film set a record worldwide opening-weekend gross of $332.7 million.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mojoOotP_44-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[44]  Watson won the inaugural National Movie Award for Best Female Performance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NFA_45-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[45]  As the fame of the actress and the series continued, Watson and fellow Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint left imprints of their hands, feet and wands in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on 9 July 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grauman_46-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[46]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">By July 2007, Watson's work in the Harry Potter series was said to have earned her more than £10 million, and she acknowledged she would never have to work for money again.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-money_6-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[6]  In March 2009, she was ranked 6th on the Forbes list of "Most Valuable Young Stars",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-forbes2009_47-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[47] and in February 2010, she was named as Hollywood's highest paid female star, having earned an estimated £19 million in 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-earnings2010_48-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[48]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Despite the success of Order of the Phoenix, the future of the Harry Potter franchise became surrounded in doubt, as all three lead actors were hesitant to sign on to continue their roles for the final two episodes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mtv-radcliffe_49-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[49]  Radcliffe eventually signed for the final films on 2 March 2007,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mtv-radcliffe_49-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[49]  but Watson was considerably more hesitant.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NWWatson_50-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[50]  She explained that the decision was significant, as the films represented a further four-year commitment to the role, but eventually conceded that she "could never let [the role of] Hermione go",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hermback_51-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[51] signing for the role on 23 March 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTlast2_52-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[52]

Watson with Daniel Radcliffe (left) and Rupert Grint at the London premiere of Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in July 2011<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Watson's first non-Potter role was the 2007 BBC film Ballet Shoes, an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Noel Streatfeild.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BShoes1_53-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[53] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BShoes2_54-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[54]  The film's director, Sandra Goldbacher, commented that Watson was "perfect" for the starring role of aspiring actress Pauline Fossil: "She has a piercing, delicate aura that makes you want to gaze and gaze at her."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BalletShoesBBC_55-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[55]  Ballet Shoes was broadcast in the UK on Boxing Day 2007 to an audience of 5.7 million viewers, to mixed reviews.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BShoesBBC_56-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[56] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BShoesGuardian_57-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[57] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BShoesTT_58-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Watson also lent her voice to the role of Princess Pea in the animated film The Tale of Despereaux, a children's comedy starring Matthew Broderick, with Harry Potter co-star Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid) also starring in the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmafilmography_59-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[59]  The Tale of Despereaux was released in December 2008 and grossed $87 million worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mojodespereaux_60-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[60]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Principal photography for the sixth film began in late 2007, with Watson's part being filmed from 18 December to 17 May 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HBPfilming1_61-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[61] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HBPfilming2_62-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[62]  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince premiered on 15 July 2009,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HBPopen_63-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[63]  having been delayed from November 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HBPdelay_64-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[64]  With the lead actors now in their late teens, critics were increasingly willing to review them on the same level as the rest of the film's all-star cast, which the Los Angeles Times described as "a comprehensive guide to contemporary UK acting".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-comprehensive_65-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[65]  The Washington Post felt Watson to have given "[her] most charming performance to date",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WPcharming_66-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[66]  while The Daily Telegraph described the lead actors as "newly liberated and energised, eager to give all they have to what's left of the series".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DTenergised_67-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[67]  In December 2008, Watson stated she wanted to go to university after she completed the Potter series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Times20081207_68-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[68]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Watson's filming for the final instalment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, began on 18 February 2009<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DHfilming_69-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[69]  and ended on 12 June 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DHfilmend_70-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[70] For financial and scripting reasons, the original book was divided into two films which were shot consecutively.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-times_71-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[71] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-empireheyman_72-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[72]  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was released in November 2010 while the second film was released in July 2011.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">She also appeared in a music video for One Night Only, after meeting lead singer George Craig at the 2010 Winter/Summer Burberry advertising campaign. The video, "Say You Don't Want It", was screened on Channel 4 on 26 June 2010 and released on 16 August.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SYDWI_73-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[73]  In her first post-Harry Potter film, Watson appeared in 2011's My Week with Marilyn as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant who has a few dates with the main character, Colin Clark.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MWwM1_74-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[74] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MWwM2_75-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[75]

2012–present
Watson at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In May 2010, Watson was reported to be in talks to star in a film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-VarietyPBW_76-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[76]  Filming began in summer 2011 and the film was released in September 2012.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PBWrelease_77-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[77]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In The Bling Ring (2013), Watson stars as Nicki. The film is based on the real-life Bling Ring robberies, with Watson playing a fictionalised version of Alexis Neiers—a television personality who was one of seven teenagers involved in the robberies. While the film mostly received mixed reviews, critics gave almost unanimous praise for Watson's portrayal of Nicki in the film. Watson also had a supporting role in the apocalyptic comedy This Is the End (2013), in which Seth Rogen, James Franco and many others played "exaggerated versions of themselves"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TItE1_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[7]  and Watson memorably dropped the "f-bomb".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TItE2_78-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[78]  She said she could not pass up the opportunity to make her first comedy and "work with some of the best comedians ... in the world right now".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TItE3_79-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[79]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In June 2012, Watson was confirmed for the role of Ila in Darren Aronofsky's Noah, which began filming the following month, and was released in March 2014.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-indiewire_8-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[8]  She has been in talks to star in Guillermo del Toro's version of Beauty and the Beast.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTBatB_80-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[80] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pulver_81-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[81] In March 2013, it was reported that Watson was in negotiations to star as the titular character in a live-action Disney adaptation of Cinderella. Kenneth Branagh was attached to direct the adaptation, while Cate Blanchett had reportedly agreed to play the evil stepmother. Watson was offered the role, but turned it down.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TFCinderella_82-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[82]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Watson was attached in 2012 to the role of Emma Forrest in a film adaptation of her memoir Your Voice in My Head. At the time, Harry Potter director David Yates was attached. In a May 2013 interview, it appeared that Watson was no longer attached as the film's star. Stanley Tucci stated that the role would instead be played by Emily Blunt.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Blunt_83-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[83]  However, by September 2013, it was confirmed that Watson was once again involved in the production in the role of Forrest and that filming would begin in November that year with a new director, Francesca Gregorini.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ColliderYViMH_84-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[84]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">As of June 2013, Watson is set to work with Harry Potter producer David Heyman for her next film Queen of the Tearling, based on a yet-to-be-released book trilogy. She will lead the film as heroine Kelsea Glynn as well as being an executive producer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HuffQT_85-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[85]  Warner Bros. will distribute the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BFQT_86-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[86]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">It was reported in September 2013 that Watson would star in While We're Young, the film adaptation of Adena Halpern's 2010 novel 29, which focuses on a young-at-heart grandmother who would rather spend time with her granddaughter (Watson) than her daughter. The film will be directed by Stephen Chbosky, with whom Watson had collaborated on The Perks of Being a Wallflower.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WWY_87-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[87]  Watson also has been cast opposite Ethan Hawke in thriller Regression. Alejandro Amenábar wrote and will direct the film, which will be released in 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MTMRegression_88-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[88]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In October 2013, Watson was chosen as the Woman of the Year by British GQ.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GQWoY_89-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[89]  That same month she was one of two British actors to land atop a readers' poll of the sexiest movie stars of 2013, besting Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence for the actresses' title in an online poll of more than 50,000 film fans. Benedict Cumberbatch took the men's vote.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Empirepoll_90-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[90]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Watson joined Judi Dench, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey,_Jr. Robert Downey Jr.], Mike Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mark Ruffalo as recipients of the 2014 Britannia Awards, presented on 30 October in Los Angeles. Watson won for British Artist of the Year and dedicated her award to Millie, her pet hamster who died as Watson filmed Philosopher's Stone.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2014Britannia_13-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[13]

Modelling
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In 2005, Watson began her modelling career with a photo shoot for Teen Vogue and was the youngest star to grace its cover.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-walker_4-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[4]  Three years later, the British press reported that Watson was to replace Keira Knightley as the face of the fashion house Chanel, but this was denied by both parties.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Chanel_91-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[91]  In June 2009, following several months of rumours, Watson confirmed that she would be partnering with Burberry as the face of their Autumn/Winter 2009 campaign, for which she received an estimated six-figure fee.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Burberry1_10-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[10] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Burberry2_92-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[92]  She also appeared in Burberry's 2010 Spring/Summer campaign alongside her brother Alex, musicians George Craig and Matt Gilmour, and model Max Hurd.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-telegraphburberry_93-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[93]  In February 2011, Watson was awarded the Style Icon award from British Elle by Dame Vivienne Westwood.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-StyleIcon_94-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[94]  Watson continued her involvement in fashion advertising when she announced she had been chosen as the face of Lancôme in March 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lancome_11-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[11]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In September 2009, Watson announced her involvement with People Tree, a Fair Trade fashion brand.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guardianpeopletree_12-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[12]  Watson worked as a creative advisor for People Tree to create a spring line of clothing, which was released in February 2010;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guardianpeopletree_12-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[12] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmapeopletree_95-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[95]  the range featured styles inspired by southern France and London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emmapeopletree_95-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[95] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-peopletreeyouth_96-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[96]  The collection, described by The Times as "very clever" despite their "quiet hope that [she] would become tangled at the first hemp-woven hurdle",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timespeopletree_97-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[97]  was widely publicised in magazines such as Teen Vogue,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-voguepeopletree_98-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[98]  Cosmopolitan, and People. Watson, who was not paid for the collaboration,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PTnotpaid_99-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[99]  admitted that competition for the range was minimal,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timespeopletree_97-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[97]  but argued that "Fashion is a great way to empower people and give them skills; rather than give cash to charity you can help people by buying the clothes they make and supporting things they take pride in"; adding, "I think young people like me are becoming increasingly aware of the humanitarian issues surrounding fast fashion and want to make good choices but there aren't many options out there."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timespeopletree_97-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[97]  Watson continued her involvement with People Tree, resulting in the release of a 2010 Autumn/Winter collection.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PTcollection_100-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[100]

Education
Emma Watson at the Cannes Film Festival<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">After leaving school, Watson took a gap year<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Telegraph20080814_101-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[101]  to film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows beginning in February 2009,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-empireheyman_72-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[72] but said she "definitely want[ed] to go to university".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Times20081207_68-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[68]  The Providence Journal reported that Watson had confirmed that she had chosen Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PJBrown_102-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[102]  In March 2011, after 18 months at the university, Watson announced that she was deferring her course for "a semester or two."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-emma-defer_103-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[103]  Watson was a "visiting student" at Worcester College, Oxford, for the 2011–12 academic year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Worcester_104-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[104]  Watson told Ellen DeGeneres in March 2014 that she was "about to graduate" from Brown in May. She noted that it took five years to graduate instead of four because, due to her acting work, she "ended up taking two full semesters off".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ellen_105-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[105]  On 25 May 2014, Watson graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in English literature and released a cap-and-gown photo on her Twitter account.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grad_9-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[9]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In 2013, Watson became certified to teach yoga and meditation. She told Elle Australia that an uncertain future meant finding "a way to always feel safe and at home within myself. Because I can never rely on a physical place."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-yoga_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[2]

Personal life
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In 2014, Watson began dating Oxford rugby player Matt Janney. Photographs published in September showed Watson moving items out of her London home with Janney's help.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-move_106-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[106]

Women's rights work
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Watson has promoted education for girls, visiting Bangladesh and Zambia to do so.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-girlsed_107-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[107]  In July 2014, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ambassador_14-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[14]  In September that year, an admittedly nervous Watson<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-UNspeech_108-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[108]  delivered an address at UN Headquarters in New York City helping launch the UN Women campaignHeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality. In that speech she said she began questioning gender-based assumptions at age eight when she was called "bossy" (a trait she has attributed<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MCbossy_109-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[109]  to her being a "perfectionist") whilst boys were not, and at 14 when she was "sexualised by certain elements of the press". Watson's speech also called feminism "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities" and declared that the perception of "man-hating" is something that "has to stop".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-UNspeech_108-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[108]  Also in September, Watson made her first country visit as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador to Uruguay where she gave a speech that highlighted the need for women’s political participation.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-uruguay_110-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[110]