Who is Emma Watson?
A: Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress and activist.
She is known for her roles in both blockbusters and
independent films, as well as for her what?
A: Women's rights work.
She has received a selection of accolades, including
what?
A: A Young Artist Award and three MTV Movie Awards.
Watson has been ranked among the world's highest-paid
actresses by whom?
A: Forbes and Vanity Fair.
Watson was named one of the 100 most influential people
in the world by who?
A: Time magazine in 2015.
Watson attended the Dragon School and trained in acting
where?
A: At the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts.
As a child, she rose to stardom after landing her first
professional acting role as whom?
A: Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having previously acted
only in school plays.
Watson also starred in the 2007 television adaptation
of what novel?
A: Ballet Shoes.
She also lent her voice to what?
A: The Tale of Despereaux (2008).
After the final Harry Potter film, she took on a
supporting role in what?
A: My Week with Marilyn (2011).
In 2012 she starred as Sam, a flirtatious,
free-spirited student in what?
A: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Further acclaim came from portraying whom?
A: Alexis Neiers in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring.
She also played the titular character's adoptive
daughter in what?
A: Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic Noah.
That same year, Watson was honored by whom?
A: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, winning British Artist
of the Year.
She starred as Belle in the live-action adaptation of
what musical romantic fantasy?
A: Beauty and the Beast (2017).
From 2011 to 2014, Watson split her time between working on films and what?
A: Continuing her education, graduating from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in English literature in May 2014.
That year, she was appointed a UN Women Goodwill
Ambassador and helped launch what?
A: The UN Women campaign HeForShe, which advocates for gender equality.
In 2018, she helped launch what?
A: Time's Up UK as a founding member.
Watson was appointed to a G7 advisory body for women's
rights in 2019, consulting with leaders on what?
A: Foreign policy.
Her modelling work has included campaigns for whom?
A: Burberry and Lancôme.
She also lent her name to a clothing line for what
sustainable brand?
A: People Tree.
In 2020, she joined the board of directors of Kering, a
luxury brand group, in her capacity as an advocate for what?
A: Sustainable fashion.
When was Watson born?
A: On 15 April 1990 in Paris.
Who were her parents?
A: English lawyers Chris Watson and Jacqueline Luesby.
Where did Watson live until age five?
A: In Maisons-Laffitte near Paris.
Her parents divorced when she was young, and Watson
moved to England to live with whom?
A: Her mother in Oxfordshire while spending weekends at her father's house
in London.
After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, she
attended what?
A: The Dragon School, remaining there until 2003.
From age six, she wanted to become what?
A: An actress.
She trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre
Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied what?
A: Singing, dancing, and acting.
By age ten, Watson had performed in Stagecoach
productions and school plays including what?
A: Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince.
She had never acted professionally prior to what?
A: The Harry Potter series.