25 Personal Facts About Emma Watson

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Emma Watson (nicknamed Em) rose to fame with her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film-series. Today, at just 25, Emma’s net worth is $60 million. Let’s learn 25 facts about the actor which made her reach there.

  1. Born as Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson on 15 April 1990, in Paris (France), she moved to England when she was just five. Therefore, she knows how to speak French as well.
  2. Her both the parents are lawyers, named Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. They were divorced when she was young.
  3. She has a brother named Alex with whom she has also shot the Burberry ad campaign. Besides him, she has 2 stepsisters and 3 stepbrothers.
  4. Emma’s favorite colors are light blue, white and cream. She also has two cute cats named Bubbles and Domino. Her hair color is natural blonde. Her height is 5’5.
  5. She went to the Dragon School in Oxford, and later shifted to Headington School from here. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English literature (Alma mater: Worcester College, Oxford Brown University). She also continued her studies while filming for Harry Potter.
  6. Her Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radliffe (Harry Potter) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) is like “brothers to her”.
  7. Her all time favorite car is Toyota Prius. Also, interestingly she holds a PADI certificate, which gives her rights to scuba dive anywhere in the globe.
  8. Her best-watching TV series is Friends, favorite film is Notting Hill and her best book out of the Harry Potter series is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
  9. In particular out of all the seasons of Harry Potter, she herself enjoyed filming the first and the last film. The first one because then it was something fresh and new for her and the last one because of her acting perspective.
  10. She also accepted to have a bad crush on Tom Felton (character: Draco Malfoy) while shooting for Harry Potter. According to her, he was cute, somewhat of a bad boy, older to her and even had a skateboard.
  11. She got trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a theatre school she attended for singing, dancing, and acting classes. She wanted to pursue acting since the age of 6.
  12. Emma is a trained yoga therapist and a meditation instructor. She also loves dancing and have followed styles like jazz, breakdancing and modern. She also passed her driving test at the first time.
  13. She appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue when she was just 15. She also did a campaign for Lancôme, besides Burberry. She has also created a clothing line for People Tree.
  14. Appearing on Teen Vogue cover made her the youngest people ever do so at that time, which is quite an achievement.
  15. Emma’s favorite snack is a bowl of strawberries mixed with nutella. Her favorite drink is gin and tonic water.
  16. She accidently missed the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party because she fell asleep. She then spent the night quietly in her hotel room eating pizza.
  17. She had to go through 8 auditions before she was selected for the role of Hermione Granger, although author J.K. Rowling liked her for the role since the first screen test.
  18. She then appeared in all the eight Harry Potter films screened between 2001- 2011.
  19. Before Harry Potter, Emma never acted professionally, although she used to play parts in school plays. She was also in her school’s hockey and dance team.
  20. She writes diary every night before sleeping and keeps a track of everything in her journals. She loves reading as a past time.
  21. Her favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Julia Roberts. She also admires Natalie Portman and Renee Zellweger. And her preferred singers are Alanis Morrisette and Justin Timberlake.
  22. Her favorite author is Carlos Ruis Zafon, a Spanish novelist, and loves “The Shadow of the Wind” and its prequel “The Game of the Angel”.
  23. Emma also turned down offers like the role of Cinderella in Disney’s next upcoming fairytale. But the next from her is expectedly a live-action version of the tale, Beauty and the Beast.
  24. Her all time favorite English artist is Brit wild-child Tracey Emin. She is also good friends with Sophie Sumner, a British fashion model. They also stayed as roommates at some point of their time.
  25. Emma was awarded with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, under the category “British Artist of the Year”. She also represents as an UN Women Goodwill Ambassador.

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