Career. Watson studied at the Dragon School and had theatrical instruction at the Stagecoach Theatre Arts center in Oxford. Hermione Granger, the character she landed as in the Harry Potter movie series, was her first acting career part. Before that, she had only appeared in school plays.
While a child, Watson decided she wanted to be an actress. Besides attending school, she took acting and singing classes. She also appeared in several school plays.
She rose to fame for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise, her first professional acting gig. The actress is no stranger to the fashion industry: in 2005, a 15-year old Watson became the youngest ever cover star of Teen Vogue.
With virtually no professional acting experience, the nine-year-old Watson was selected to co-star in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001) and was propelled into international stardom with her very first film.
Emma Watson gained popularity when she was only nine years old, thanks to the leading role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, where she starred with Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
Emma Watson was only nine years old when she auditioned for the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series of films. She auditioned eight times for the role, but Harry Potter author JK Rowling had liked her in her first screen test itself.
British actress Emma Watson auditioned for the role of Hermione Granger in the 'Harry Potter' series eight times, when she was nine years old. The series author, JK Rowling, wanted Watson for the role since Watson's first screen test.
The youngest of the three main actors in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was Emma Watson. Watson was only 10 years old when filming began on the first film, placing her as younger than her costars.
Emma said: "I remember on my 18th birthday I came out of my birthday party and photographers laid down on the pavement and took photographs up my skirt, which were then published on the front of the English tabloid [newspapers] the next morning.
Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), who was 11 when the first Harry Potter flick premiered, said growing up in the spotlight was tough. “I was working on Harry Potter while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated,” she recalled to The Telegraph in September 2012.
Emma Watson is an inspiring example of a leader in the fight for international women's rights and gender equality. Through her powerful speeches, charitable causes and social media campaigns, she has encouraged individuals around the world to take action against inequality.
Emma Watson is all about finding the magic. Five years after the Harry Potter alum appeared in her last movie, the 33-year-old opened up about why she took a break from her acting career. "I think I felt a bit caged," she told Financial Times in an interview published April 28.
But after 18 months, Watson made the decision to leave Brown because she realized that she is not like everyone else. "I was in denial," the 21-year-old actress told the U.K.'s Sunday Times Style Magazine recently about her decision to drop out. "I wanted to pretend I wasn't as famous as I was.
While the British actress has admitted to having a crush on her Harry Potter costar Tom Felton when she was young, the actors never actually dated. They're more like platonic "soulmates," as Watson explained in the foreword of Felton's memoir, Beyond the Wand.
In the third Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," Draco Malfoy was portrayed as being approximately 13 years old. In the film, the characters are in their third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Draco's age would correspond to that year of schooling.
July 31, 2023 Updated: July 31, 2023 1:12 p.m. Daniel Radcliffe played Harry Potter in all of the first round of films based in the wizarding universe created by author J.K. Rowling, including "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." The character is celebrating his 43rd birthday.
Tom Felton, now 35, had bagged the role of Draco Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" films when he was only 13 years old. Although the British actor had less screen time in "Harry Potter" films, Draco Malfoy was one of the franchise's most iconic characters.
By the age of ten, she had performed and taken the lead in various Stagecoach productions and school plays. In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (2001), the film adaptation of British author J.K. Rowling's bestselling novel. Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher.
According to insider Jeff Sneider, WB is facing some issues in getting some of the lead actors back for the revival, especially Emma. And, that's because the original cast members are unwilling to work with franchise creator JK Rowling, because of her transphobic comments.
