

A 9-year-old Watson auditioned eight times for the role that would make her an international star. Watson had never acted professionally when her theater teachers suggested her to agents looking to cast an upcoming movie based on the first novel of the best-selling Harry Potter series. Playing Hermione Granger in 'Harry Potter' Her natural instinct for acting first came out when she won a poetry competition for reciting James Reeves' "The Sea" at age 7. She studied singing, acting and dancing, and performed in school plays. Watson attended the Stagecoach Theatre Arts school at Oxford. Her parents divorced when Watson was 5, and she moved back to Oxfordshire in England with her mother and brother. Her brother, Alex, was born three years later. Her parents, both British lawyers, are Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. Early LifeĮmma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris. Watson went on to enjoy success in the fashion and modeling industries, and continued to prove her abilities as an actress with roles in films like My Week with Marilyn, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beauty and the Beast and Little Women. The actress got her big break as a child with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, growing up on screen as she reprised her role of Hermione Granger through the franchise's eight films. Emma Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France, but raised in England.
