History Creator / EmmaWatson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born April 15, 1990 in Paris, France) is a French-born British actress, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies. She is following up the ''Potter'' series with a small role in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'', the Princess Pea in ''WesternAnimation/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' and the female lead in ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower''. She acted in Creator/SofiaCoppola's ''Film/TheBlingRing'' and in Creator/DarrenAronofsky's 2014 Biblical epic film, ''Film/{{Noah}}''. She was tapped to play Beauty in a Creator/GuillermoDelToro version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The project fell through and she was cast instead as Belle in the 2017 live-action adaptation of Disney's ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2017}}''.

* ''Film/LaColonia'' (2016) as Lena

* CelibateHeroine: Emma Watson considered herself and coined "self-partnered", which is likely to be a synonym of
aromantic.

* CelibateHeroine: Emma Watson considered herself and coined "self-partnered", so she is likely aromantic.

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born April 15, 1990 in Paris, France) is a French-born British actress, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies. She is following up the ''Potter'' series with a small role in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'', the Princess Pea in ''WesternAnimation/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' and the female lead in ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower''. She acted in Creator/SofiaCoppola's ''Film/TheBlingRing'' and in Creator/DarrenAronofsky's 2014 Biblical epic film, ''Film/{{Noah}}''. She was tapped to play Beauty in a Creator/GuillermoDelToro version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The project fell through and she was cast instead as Belle in the 2017 live-action adaptation of Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born April 15, 1990) is a French-born British actress, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies. She is following up the ''Potter'' series with a small role in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'', the Princess Pea in ''WesternAnimation/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' and the female lead in ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower''. She acted in Creator/SofiaCoppola's ''Film/TheBlingRing'' and in Creator/DarrenAronofsky's 2014 Biblical epic film, ''Film/{{Noah}}''. She was tapped to play Beauty in a Creator/GuillermoDelToro version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The project fell through and she was cast instead as Belle in the 2017 live-action adaptation of Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

* EnforcedMethodActing:[[invoked]] When filming "Be Our Guest" in ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', Emma was so bored at having to sit in a chair for the whole scene that the crew had to keep telling her jokes to get her to laugh.

* ContractualPurity: Has said she'd be willing to do nudity in films, presumably to avoid this trope. She's flirted with darker roles -- for example Sam in ''The Perks of Being a Wallflower'' was molested at a young age, and Nicki in ''The Bling Ring'' is a MsFanservice. She also joked that she's received about twenty Bibles as gifts from fans.

* FakeAmerican: In ''Film/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'', ''Film/TheBlingRing'' and ''Film/TheCircle''.

* KindheartedCatLover: Owns two cats. Ironically another thing she has in common with Hermione, who owned a cat called Crookshanks.

* NiceGirl: Seems like a very sweet and caring woman in general.

** She briefly considered leaving ''Film/HarryPotter'' after the fifth film, but soon realised she couldn't bear to see anyone else play Hermione. Ironically enough the reason she considered leaving was that she was finding it hard to keep up with her school work. She later joked at what a Hermione-ish thing to do it was.

* DyeingForYourArt: She became blonde to play Pauline in ''Literature/BalletShoes'', who is desirable because of her beautiful blonde hair. As a result, Hermione is also blonde in the fifth ''Harry Potter'' film.

** She turned down the role of Mia in ''Film/LaLaLand'' in order to star in ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017''. Creator/EmmaStone got the part after Damien Chazelle decided to make the protagonists a little older.
*** ''Film/LittleWomen'' reverses this, with Emma Watson taking the role of Meg March after Emma Stone dropped out.

* ContractualPurity: Has said she'd be willing to do nudity in films, presumably to avoid this trope. She's flirted with darker roles - for example Sam in ''The Perks of Being a Wallflower'' was molested at a young age, and Nicki in ''The Bling Ring'' is a MsFanservice. She also joked that she's received about twenty Bibles as gifts from fans.

* IAmNotSpock: She's gone to great lengths to avoid this since ''Harry Potter'' ended, cutting her hair short and pursuing very different roles - and not making it a secret that she'd be willing to do nudity. She has however said that she is very like Hermione in some ways.

* RealitySubtext: ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'' was her first R-rated film, which is oddly paralleled in the scene where Colin and Lucy nearly do it - but get interrupted by her parents.

** She starred alongside Richard Griffiths in most of the ''Harry Potter'' movies and ''Literature/BalletShoes''. The latter also featured fellow ''Potter'' cast member Gemma Jones - who is only in three out of the eight films.

** A milder version in GretaGerwig's adaptation of ''LittleWomen'', where Watson plays the most traditionally-minded sister, Meg, rather than the more obviously [[Film/HarryPotter Hermione]]-like Jo.

* ActorSharedBackground:[[invoked]] The ''Beauty & the Beast'' remake gives Belle a backstory of being born in Paris. Emma too was born in Paris but her family moved to England.

** She uses the F-word several times in ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd''. Bonus points for being called Hermione after robbing a group of men, in the quote at the top of her Creator page.

* TheRedStapler: Even the popularity of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' films didn't suffice to put the girls' name [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Hermione]] into the [[https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ top thousand female baby names]], let alone the top ten (unlike, say, the less popular single film ''Film/{{Splash}}'' with Madison). However, ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' no doubt caused Emma's own name (already rising in popularity) to bump from 13th (in 2001) to 4th (in 2002) -- a jump much bigger than the ranks suggest. Emma has been in the top three girls' names every year since then.

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* OneOfUs: She has said that her way of escaping is just reading and going to school, and her grades rival Hermione's (which makes sense--she got into ''[[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague Brown]]'', after all). She also apparently became quite addicted to ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' during filming of one of the ''Potter'' films.

* KindheartedCatLover: Owns two cats.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice:

* FakeAmerican: In ''Film/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'' and ''Film/TheBlingRing''.

-->--'''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'''

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born April 15, 1990) is a French-born British actress, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies. She is following up the ''Potter'' series with a small role in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'', the Princess Pea in ''WesternAnimation/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' and the female lead in ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower''. She acted in Creator/SofiaCoppola's ''Film/TheBlingRing'' and in Creator/DarrenAronofsky's 2014 Biblical epic film, ''Film/{{Noah}}''. She was tapped to play Beauty in a Creator/GuillermoDelToro version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The project fell through and she has now been cast instead as Belle in the 2017 live-action adaptation of Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

* ImportantHaircut: As soon as the ''Harry Potter'' films wrapped up, she cut her hair into a pixie (as she had to keep it long for the films). She kept it short for ''The Perks of Being A Wallflower'' and wore wigs and extensions for ''Noah'' and ''Film/TheBlingRing'' before ultimately growing it long again.

* PlayingAgainstType: She uses the F-word several times in ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd''. Bonus points for being called Hermione after robbing a group of men, in the quote at the top.

* HypeBacklash: She's begun to face this in recent years, along with Creator/JenniferLawrence, by people who find it problematic that two wealthy, white, conventionally attractive women have branded themselves the faces of modern feminism. It certainly didn't help when Watson claimed Beyonce wasn't a real feminist because she wore revealing clothing soon before she posed nearly topless in ''Vanity Fair'' herself.

* ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'' (2015) as Reverend Iris

* HypeBacklash: She's begun to face this in recent years, along with Jennifer Lawrence, by people who find it problematic that two wealthy, white, conventionally attractive women have branded themselves the faces of modern feminism. It certainly didn't help when Watson claimed Beyonce wasn't a real feminist because she wore revealing clothing soon before she posed nearly topless in ''Vanity Fair'' herself.
* ImportantHaircut: As soon as the ''Harry Potter'' films wrapped, she cut her hair into a pixie (as she had to keep it long for the films). She kept it short for ''The Perks of Being A Wallflower'' and wore wigs and extensions for ''Noah'' and ''The Bling Ring'' before ultimately growing it long again.