Emma Watson

At 34 years old, Emma Watson has this physical status:

Acting career

Casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the British author J. K. Rowling's best-selling book, began in 1999. Watson was discovered by an Oxford theatre instructor, and producers were raving about her enthusiasm. After eight auditions, producer David Heyman told Watson and fellow applicants, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint, that they had been cast in the roles of Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley, respectively. Watson was backed up by Rowling from her first screen examination.

Watson's debut screen appearance with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was on display at the University of Philosophers' Stone. The film set new records for first-day sales and opening-weekend takings, and it was the highest-grossing film of 2001. Watson was singled out for particular praise; The Daily Telegraph called her performance "admirable," while IGN said she "stole the show." Watson was nominated for five awards for her role in Philosopher's Stone, as well as the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress. Watson played Hermione in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second instalment of the series a year later. The lead actors' performances were lauded by reviewers. Watson and her co-stars had progressed between films, according to the Los Angeles Times, while The Times slammed director Chris Columbus for "underemploding" Watson's widely recognized role. Watson received an Otto Award from the German magazine Bravo for her work.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were released in 2004. Watson was appreciative of Hermione's more assertive role, describing her as "charismatic" and "a wonderful job to play." Watson's success was lauded by critics, who wrote A. O. Scott of The New York Times: "Well, Mr. Radcliffe's blandness is offset by Ms. Watson's vivacious impatience." Harry may be demonstrating his growing wizardry skills, but Hermione... gets the most applause with a pronouncedly unmagical blow to Dr. Malfoy's deserving nose." Although Prisoner of Azkaban was the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film in the entire series, Watson's personal appearance received her two Otto Awards and the Child Performance of the Year award from Total Film.

Both Watson and the Harry Potter film series reached new heights with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). The film set records for a Harry Potter opening weekend and opening weekend in the United Kingdom. Watson and her teenage co-stars received praise; the New York Times praised her performance as "touchingly earnest," and Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian noted that "Watson's brave, confident appearance clearly shows that there is a growing disconnect between a teenage girl's fame and her continuing psychic and intellectual growth." As the three main characters aged, Watson noticed a lot of the film's humour. "I loved all the wrangling," she said. ... I believe it's much more likely that they would argue and that there will be challenges." Watson was nominated for three Goblet of Fire awards, and for bronze Otto Award.

Watson performed Hermione in The Queen's Handbag, a limited mini-episode of Harry Potter dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday. In 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the Harry Potter series, was published. The film, which was a huge financial success, made a record opening-weekend gross gross of $332.7 million. Watson received the inaugural National Film Award for Best Female Achievement. Watson and her Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint left footprints of their hands, feet, and wands in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on July 9, 2007. Watson's Harry Potter series was said to have earned her more than £10 million, and she promised she would never have to work for money again.

The fate of the Harry Potter series was in jeopardy prior to its debut of Order of the Phoenix, as all three main actors were reluctant to commit to their roles in the final instalments. During renegotiations, Watson was much more ambivalent than her co-stars. She explained that the decision was critical, as the films represented a further four-year commitment to the role, but she later admitted that she "could never let [the role of] Hermione go," when she first started acting on March 23, 2007.

Watson's first non-Potter role was in 2007's BBC film Ballet Shoes, an extension of the Noel Streatfeild's book of the same name. Watson was "ideal" for the role played by aspiring actress Pauline Fossil in the film's director Sandra Goldbacher: "She has a piercing, delicate aura that makes you want to stare and gaze at her." Ballet Shoes were shown in the United Kingdom on Boxing Day to 5.7 million viewers, to mixed reactions. In the year after, she portrayed Princess Pea in the animation The Tale of Despereaux, a children's comedy starring Matthew Broderick, with Harry Potter co-star Robbie Coltrane also appearing in the film. The Tale of Despereaux was published in December 2008 and it grossed $87 million worldwide.

Principal photography for Harry Potter's sixth Harry Potter film began in late 2007, with Watson's appearance filmed from 18 December to 17 May 2008. On July 15, 2009, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince premiered, having been postponed from November 2008. critics were increasingly ready to examine lead actors in their late teens as well as the rest of the franchise's all-star cast, which the Los Angeles Times called "a comprehensive guide to contemporary UK acting." Watson gave "her" best performance to date," according to The Washington Post, who called the lead actors "newly liberated and energised, eager to give all they have to what's left of the story."

Watson's filming for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final instalment, began on February 18th, 2009, and concluded on June 10, 2010. The original book was split into two films that were shot consecutively due to financial and scripting reasons. Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in November 2010, but part two of the series was released in July 2011. Part 2 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 was a commercial and critical success. It grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide and was Watson's most commercially profitable film to date, and it was the highest-grossing film in the franchise.

After meeting lead singer George Craig at the 2010 Winter/Summer Burberry advertising campaign, Watson appeared in a One Night Only music video. On June 26, 2010, Channel 4's "You Don't Want It" video was shown and then released on August 16th. Watson appeared in My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant who briefly dates protagonist Colin Clark, portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in her first post-Harry Potter film.

Watson was scheduled to be in talks with Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on the 1999 book of the same name. Filming began in the summer of 2011, and the film was released in September 2012. Watson starred opposite Logan Lerman as Sam, a high school senior who befriends a fellow student named Charlie (Lerman) and supports him through his freshman year. Watson's performance was "plausible and touching," according to David Sexton of the Evening Standard, although The Atlantic's Ian Buckwalter said that Watson "sheds the memory of a decade of playing Hermione in the Harry Potter series with an outward but insecure free spirit."

Watson appeared in The Bling Ring, a satirical crime film released in 2013. The Sofia Coppola-directed film is based on the true Bling Ring robberies, with Watson playing a fictionalized version of Alexis Neiers, a television actor who was one of seven teenagers robbed by the robberies. Although Watson's role was generally dismissed by reviewers, analysts praised Watson's performance almost unanimously. "She's [W] be marvel[d] extraordinary," Watson ostensibly said in a newspaper. As if she's swallowed a Kardashian for breakfast, her twitchy American vocal fry is stifled and monotoned. Watson appeared in "exaggerated versions of themselves" and Watson memorably dropped the "f-bomb," a tragic comedy in which she, Seth Rogen, James Franco, and several others performed "exaggerated versions of themselves." She said she could not pass up her chance to make her first comedies and "work with some of the best comedians in the world right now."

Watson was selected for the role as Ila, Shem's wife, in Darren Aronofsky's Noah, which began filming in June 2012 and was released in March 2014. Watson referred to the role as "physically demanding" due to the use of special effects and extensive study on childbirth in order to accurately portray a scene in the film. The film, which received mixed feedback for its direction and casting; Vanity Fair stated that "Watson anchors the film's rawest emotional scenes." Watson is quiet but ferocious as she sits on an Icelandic beach with Russell Crowe's hair wild and eyes burning. Watson was reportedly in talks to appear as the title character in Kenneth Branagh's live-action Disney version of Cinderella in March 2013. Watson was given the opportunity but decided against it because she did not identify with the role. Lily James was eventually given the job.

Watson was honoured to receive the 2014 Britannia Awards from Judi Dench, Robert Downey Jr., Mike Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Mark Ruffalo. Watson was named British Artist of the Year, and she dedicated the award to Millie, her pet hamster who died while Watson was filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Watson appeared in two films in 2015, including thrillers Colonia, opposite Daniel Brühl and Michael Nyqvist; and Alejandro Amenábar's Regression; as Ethan Hawke and her Harry Potter co-star David Thewlis. Both of these films received generally critical feedback; the writer of the Daily Telegraph blamed Regression's script for her "pure dramatic cardboard" appearance. She appeared on BBC's The Vicar of Dibley, in which she played Reverend Iris. Watson revealed in February 2016 that she would be taking a year-long break from acting. She planned to spend the time on her "personal growth" and her women's rights work.

Watson starred in Bill Condon's 2017 live-action Disney adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, as well as starring Dan Stevens as the Beast. She was given autonomy within Belle's appearance; she re-characterised her as an assistant to her father's inventor father and incorporated bloomers and boots into her look. The film debuted at $1.2 billion worldwide box office, securing it as the second highest-grossing film of 2017 and the 17th highest-grossing film of all time. Her disclosed fee was $3 million upfront with profit sharing, effectively raising her salary up to $30 million. The film received raves; Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times thought her appearance was "all pluck and spunk and sass and sass and adamant rebellion as Belle." "I felt like I had made the transition from being a woman on film when I finished the film," Watson later said.

Mae Holland, the actress who appeared in Dave Eggers' film adaptation of Dave Eggers' book The Circle, plays Mae Holland, a woman who begins to work in a major tech company and enters a difficult situation regarding surveillance and freedom in the same year. The film received critical feedback, but it was a moderate box office hit. In 2019, Watson appeared in Greta Gerwig's interpretation of Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women, co-starring Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Stapet. Watson has said that "I think [Little Women] is a good literary tool to demonstrate that there isn't one way to be a feminist [Meg's] choice, not because feminism is about. She prefers to be a full-time mother and wife." According to Forbes, "Watson has possibly the most challenging [...] role as the sister's proverbial straight woman who is put on the defensive when her hopes aren't the most normal." The film was lauded for its critical success and grossed over $218 million against its $40 million budget.

Watson talked to her future career as "being so public in making films and being so social [on social media] in my activism, I'm keen to take a role where I can learn from those with more experience," she said. Multiple sources claimed that Watson was employed or retired in 2021. Watson and her representatives denied these reports; she later described the speculation as clickbait and cited her relative public absence in the COVID-19 pandemic's surge in socioeconomic injustice. Watson reunited with several cast members of the Harry Potter film series in 2022 for an HBO Max tribute titled Harry Potter's 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.

Fashion career

Watson began modelling with a photo shoot for Teen Vogue in 2005, making her the youngest person to cover the magazine. Watson was supposed to replace Keira Knightley as the face of Chanel three years later, but both sides denied it. Watson revealed in June 2009 that she would be working with Burberry as the face of their Autumn/Winter 2009 campaign, for which she received a six-figure commission. Alex, singer George Craig, and Matt Gilmour, both appeared in Burberry's 2010 Spring/Summer campaign, as well as model Max Hurd. Dame Vivienne Westwood presented Watson with the Style Icon award from British Elle in February 2011. Watson portrayed herself in fashion advertising when she revealed that she had been chosen as the face of Lancôme in March 2011.

Watson revealed her involvement with People Tree, a fair trade fashion company, in September 2009. Watson, a creative consultant for the company, was hired to design a spring line of clothing, which was launched in February 2010; the collection featured styles influenced by southern France and London. Despite the collection's "quiet expectation that [she] will become entangled at the first hemp-woven hurdle," Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and People magazine all said it was "very clever." Watson, who was not compensated for the venture, admitted that the competition for the range was minimal, but that "Fashion is a great way to educate people and teach them skills; rather than give money to charity, you can help people by buying the clothes they make and supporting things they love," she said. Watson's involvement with People Tree culminated in the introduction of a 2010 Autumn/Winter set.

Madame Tussauds in London unveiled a wax statue of Watson with an Elie Saab haute couture style donated to the museum by the designer. "Watson] is one of the most requested celebrities by our visitors," a museum spokeswoman said. "She is a true English rose who is known and adored by millions of film and fashion enthusiasts around the world." At the 2014 British Fashion Awards, Watson was named Best British Style. David Beckham, Amal Clooney, Kate Moss, and Keira Knightley were among the contestants.

Watson has been described as "an early adopter of sustainable fashion" and has been praised for dressing ethically on the red carpet. Calvin Klein wore a Calvin Klein gown made from recycled plastic bottles at the 2016 Met Gala. Watson has enjoyed Good On You, an app that acts as a directory of fashion brands' sustainability. "The Press Tour" was her Instagram account in 2017, focusing on the ethical brands she wore on press tours for films including Beauty and the Beast and The Circle. Watson contributed to Vogue Australia's March 2018 issue, which was mainly focused on fashion sustainability, and Peter Lindbergh was photographed for the issue. She collaborated with ThredUP to introduce a "Fashion Footprint Calculator" in January 2020, which helps website visitors estimate the carbon footprint of their wardrobes and how to minimize it.

Watson was named the youngest member of Kering's board of directors in June 2020, the helm of numerous fashion stores, including Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Watson will chair Kering's sustainability committee. The new board members' "knowledge and expertise," as well as their multiplicity of their origins and perspectives, was lauded by Kering chairman François-Henri Pinault. Watson said she was "very excited" to partner with the Kering Foundation as part of their women's rights campaign and said she is "behind the scenes" to make a difference.

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