The English actress Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson came into this world on April 15, 1990. She has won many awards, including three MTV Movie Awards and a Young Artist Award, for her work in both mainstream and indie films. Both Forbes and Vanity Fair have placed Watson among the highest-paid actresses in the world, and in 2015, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most important people in the world. In 2015 and 2016, Watson was again included to Forbes' 30 under 30 list.
Watson received his acting training at Stagecoach Theatre Arts' Oxford branch and at the Dragon School. Having only performed in school productions up until her portrayal as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films catapulted her to fame as a young actress. Ballet Shoes(2007) and The Tale of Despereaux (2008) were Watson's first big ventures outside the Potter series. Her acting career began after the last Harry Potter film, with a supporting part in My Week with Marilyn (2011). She then starred in the critically acclaimed 2012 film The Perks of Being a Wallflower as Sam, a flirty and free-spirited student. Her roles as Alexis Neiers in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (2013) and the adopted daughter of the title character in Darren Aronofsky's historical epic Noah (2014) garnered her even more praise. In the same year, Watson received the British Artist of the Year award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In addition to her roles as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Meg March in Little Women (2019), she was also a part of Greta Gerwig's comedic dramas about coming of age.
Watson worked on films and went to school full-time from 2011 to 2014, earning a bachelor's degree in English literature in May 2014 from Brown University. In the same year that she co-founded the UN Women's program HeForShe, which promotes gender parity, she was named a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. She was a founder member of Time's Up UK in 2018, which she helped to establish. on 2019, Watson will be advising G7 leaders on foreign policy as a member of an advisory group on women's rights. She has been in ads for brands like Burberry and Lancôme as a model. Additionally, she was the face of People Tree's eco-friendly apparel line. She was an advocate for sustainable fashion and served on the board of directors of the luxury brand company Kering from 2020 to 2023.
French attorneys Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson welcomed their daughter, Emma Charlotte Duerre, into the world on April 15, 1990, in Paris. Right up until he was five years old, Watson resided in Maisons-Laffitte, which is close to Paris. After her parents' divorce when she was five years old, Watson relocated to England, where she now lives with her mother in Oxfordshire and visits her father in London on weekends. Watson claims to be able to converse in French, but "not as well" as she formerly did. She went to the Dragon School in Oxford after relocating there with her family and stayed there till 2003. She attended the Stagecoach Theatre Arts program in Oxford, where she honed her acting, singing, and dancing chops beginning when she was six years old.
Although Watson had already been in school plays and Stagecoach productions by the time she was ten years old, such as The Happy Prince and Arthur: The Young Years, she had never acted professionally until her roles in the Harry Potter films. Headington School in Oxford was Watson's next stop after the Dragon School. Each day, she and her co-stars would spend up to five hours in a tutoring session on set. She earned eight A*s and two A's on her ten GCSE subjects taken in June 2006. She started her AS-level art, geography, English, and history studies in May 2007. She failed History of Art that year but succeeded in all three A-levels she took.
After graduating high school, Watson took a year off to shoot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Parts 1 and 2, which began filming in February 2009. However, she subsequently revealed that she had selected Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, to continue her studies. Though she was a Visiting Student at Worcester College, Oxford from 2011 to 2012, Watson declared in March 2011 that she was postponing her study for "a semester or two" after 18 months at the institution. Watson said that she "ended up taking two full semesters off" from acting, which caused her degree to take five years to complete instead of four, in a 2014 interview with The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which she gave right before graduation. She received her BA in English literature from Brown University on May 25, 2014. She enrolled in Lady Margaret Hall, the University of Oxford's graduate school for creative writing, in 2023.
From 1999 until 2009, Harry Potter gained immense fame across the globe.
The film version of the British novel by J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, started casting in 1999. The bestselling book by J. K. Rowling. Through her theatrical instructor in Oxford, casting agencies were able to locate Watson. Although she had performed in school plays, she was unprepared for the film industry. At the tender age of nine, she had her first audition. Even though Watson had to try out for the part eight times, Rowling was on board with her casting decision from the first screen test. The producers had considered Hatty Jones before they cast Watson.
The first film in which Watson appeared was 2001's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. With its record-breaking opening weekend and day-one sales, the picture easily became 2001's highest-grossing film. Watson was the recipient of special praise from critics, who praised her performance as "admirable" and said that she "stole the show" (IGN, 2009). For her role in Philosopher's Stone, Watson received five nominations and won the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress. Among 2001's Breakout Performers, she was named by Entertainment Weekly.
In the second installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, released a year after the first, Watson played Hermione again. Critics were quite complimentary of the main actors' work. An article in the Los Angeles Times criticized director Chris Columbus for allegedly "under-employing" Watson's very popular role, while another one said that Watson and her co-stars had grown on set. Bravo, a German magazine, presented Watson with an Otto Award in recognition of her performance.
The Prisoner of Azkaban, the fourth Harry Potter film, came out in 2004. "Charismatic" and "a fantastic role to play" were Watson's words to describe Hermione's more forceful performance. Awards went to Watson for his performance; A. According to O. Scott of The New York Times, Watson's performance earned her two Otto Awards and the Child Performance of the Year award from Total Film, despite Prisoner of Azkaban being the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film in the series. "Luckily Mr. Radcliffe's blandness is offset by Ms. Watson's spiky impatience. Harry may show off his expanding wizardly skills... but Hermione... earns the loudest applause with a decidedly unmagical punch to Draco Malfoy's deserving nose."
Watson and the Harry Potter film franchise both achieved new heights with 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Both the Harry Potter franchise and the UK both had record-breaking opening weekends thanks to this film. According to critics, the character development of both Watson and her teenage co-stars was commendable. The New York Times described Watson's performance as "touchingly earnest," and Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian noted that "Watson's gutsy, confident performance nicely shows that inside and outside the world of magic there is a growing discrepancy between a teenage girl's status and her accelerating emotional and intellectual development." Watson felt that the film's comedic moments stemmed from the tension that developed among the three main characters as they gained maturity. With a bronze Otto Award under her belt, Watson was one of three nominees for Goblet of Fire. She gushed, "I loved all the arguing.... I think it's much more realistic that they would argue and that there would be problems." Watson was on the verge of leaving the series during Goblet of Fire, stating, "I think I was scared. I don't know if you ever felt like it got to a tipping point where you were like, 'this is kind of forever now.'"
To commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday in 2006, there was a special mini-episode of Harry Potter called The Queen's Handbag, in which Watson portrayed Hermione. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was the 2007 release of the fifth installment of the Harry Potter film series. With an unprecedented $332.7 million in its opening weekend globally, the picture was a smashing financial success. Watson was named the best female actor at the first National Movie Awards. On July 9, 2007, as the actress's and the show's star power grew, Watson, along with her Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, stamped their footprints outside of Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre. According to reports, Watson made almost £10 million that month from her work on the Harry Potter series. At the time, she said that she would never have to work for money again.
There was serious uncertainty about the continuation of the Harry Potter series prior to the publication of Order of the Phoenix since none of the three main actors were willing to commit to returning for the last two films. When it came time to renegotiate, Watson was much more ambivalent than her co-stars. Despite her initial reluctance to sign on for the part on March 23, 2007, she ultimately decided that she "could never let [the role of] Hermione go" after explaining that the films marked a further four-year commitment to the role.
Ballet Shoes, a 2007 British film based on the 1936 Noel Streatfeild book, was Watson's first non-Potter role. The film was a television adaptation. In an interview with Variety, Ballet Shoes director Sandra Goldbacher gushed about Watson, calling her "perfect" for the lead role of aspiring actress Pauline Fossil: "She has a piercing, delicate aura that makes you want to gaze and gaze at her." The film premiered in the UK on Boxing Day, drawing 5.7 million viewers and receiving mixed reviews. She portrayed Princess Pea the following year in the animated children's comedy The Tale of Despereaux, which co-starred Matthew Broderick and Robbie Coltrane (both from Harry Potter), and was based on the 2003 book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo. Worldwide, the 2008 holiday film The Tale of Despereaux made $87 million.
The filming of Watson's scene took place between December 18 and May 17, 2008, when principal shooting for the sixth Harry Potter film began in late 2007. After a postponement from November 2008, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince finally debuted on July 15, 2009. The primary performers were in their late teens when the Los Angeles Times characterized the series as "a comprehensive guide to contemporary UK acting" and reviewers started to treat them with the same respect as the rest of the star-studded ensemble. Watson had delivered "[her] most charming performance to date," according to the Washington Post, and the main performers were characterized as "newly liberated and energised, eager to give all they have to what's left of the series" by the Daily Telegraph.
The last installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, began shooting on 18 February 2009 and concluded on 12 June 2010, with Watson playing the lead role. The original novel was adapted into two films that were made in quick succession for issues of screenplay and budget. First published in November 2010, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 2 followed in July 2011. Both critics and audiences loved Part 2 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was the most financially successful picture for Watson to date, earning over $1.3 billion globally and became the highest-grossing installment in the series.
from 2010 to 2016: including indie and major films
Soon after meeting lead vocalist George Craig during the 2010 Winter/Summer Burberry ad campaign, Watson made an appearance in the music video for One Night Only. Channel 4 premiered the music video for "Say You Don't Want It" on June 26, 2010, and the song's official release date was August 16, 2010. Lucy, Watson's character in My Week with Marilyn (2011), is a wardrobe assistant who has a short romance with Colin Clark, played by Eddie Redmayne. This was Watson's first film after Harry Potter.
Based on Stephen Chbosky's 1999 book of the same name, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Watson was reportedly in discussions to feature in the 2010 May film. Production started in the summer of 2011 and wrapped up in September 2012. In the film, Watson played the role of Sam, a senior in high school who becomes friends with Charlie, played by Logan Lerman, and supports him during his freshman year. One reviewer from The Atlantic wrote that Watson "sheds the memory of a decade playing Hermione in the Harry Potter series with an about-face as a flirtatious but insecure free spirit," while another from The Evening Standard expressed the opinion that Watson's performance was "plausible and touching" in the film's opening reviews.
On 29 February 2012, Watson became a part of the cast of Sofia Coppola's satirical crime film The Bling Ring, which was based on the real-life Bling Ring robberies. In the film, which was released in 2013, Watson played a fictionalized version of Alexis Neiers, a television personality who was one of seven teenagers involved in the robberies. Critics largely gave the picture mixed reviews, but nearly unanimously praised Watson for her performance. "She prove[d] remarkable....," Adam White of The Independent later stated. Watson has a nonchalant air of contempt. She had a supporting role in the 2013 apocalyptic comedy This Is the End, in which she, Seth Rogen, James Franco, and many others played "exaggerated versions of themselves" and Watson famously dropped the "f-bomb." I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make my first comedy and "work with some of the best comedians [...] in the world right now," she said, describing her American vocal fry as clipped and monotone.
Actress Emma Watson was cast in the lead role of Ila, Shem's wife, in Darren Aronofsky's Noah in June 2012. Filming for the film started in July 2012 and was completed in March 2014. Watson described the role as "physically very demanding" due to the use of special effects and conducted thorough research on childbirth to accurately portray a scene in the film. Vanity Fair praised Watson's performance, writing that she "anchors the film's rawest emotional scenes.... Sitting on an Icelandic beach with Russell Crowe, her hair wild and eyes burning, Watson is quiet but fierce. There were rumors in March 2013 that Watson was negotiating to play the lead role in Kenneth Branagh's live-action Disney Cinderella. Watson turned down the role because she didn't feel a connection to the character. Lily James ended up playing the lead.
Watson and Ólafur Arnalds were the featured vocalists on the second chorus of Ben Hammersley's "Pantomime" since its release on January 20, 2014.
Watson joined Judi Dench, Robert Downey Jr., Mike Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Mark Ruffalo as recipients of the 2014 Britannia Awards, presented on 30 October in Los Angeles. Watson was awarded British Artist of the Year and she dedicated the prize to Millie, her pet hamster who died as Watson was filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Watson starred in two 2015 releases, the thrillers Colonia, opposite Daniel Brühl and Michael Nyqvist; and Regression by Alejandro Amenábar, alongside Ethan Hawke and her Harry Potter co-star David Thewlis. Both of these films received generally negative reviews; The Daily Telegraph critic blamed Regression's script for her "pure dramatic cardboard" role. She also appeared in an episode of BBC's The Vicar of Dibley, in which she played Reveren
*My career and sabbatical from 2017 onwards*
In the 2017 live-action Disney version of Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and starring Dan Stevens as the Beast, Watson had a lot of creative freedom as Belle. She reimagined Belle as an assistant to her inventor father and added bloomers and boots to her wardrobe. The film was a huge success, earning over $1.2 billion worldwide and becoming the second highest-grossing film of 2017 and the 17th highest-grossing film of all time. Watson's reported fee was $3 million upfront plus profit participation, bringing her salary up to $15 million. Critics were generally positive, with Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times praising her performance, calling it "all pluck and spunk and sass and smarts and fierce independence as Belle." Watson later revealed that she had fun dressing the part.
In the same year, she co-starred with Tom Hanks in the film The Circle, which was based on Dave Eggers' novel. In the film, Watson played Mae Holland, a new employee at a powerful tech company who finds herself in a dangerous situation involving surveillance and freedom. The film was mostly panned but did moderately well at the box office. In 2019, she co-starred with Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Streep in Greta Gerwig's Little Women, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel. On the premise, Watson had said, "I think [Little Women] was a good literary device to explain that there's not one way to be a feminist.... To me, the essence of feminism is in the ability to make one's own decisions, and that is how [Meg] is a feminist. The film was critically acclaimed and grossed over $218 million against its $40 million budget. Forbes stated that "Watson has perhaps the most challenging [...] role, as the proverbial straight woman of the sisters who is put on the defensive when her dreams end up being the most conventional of the lot." The actress's choice is to be a full-time mother and wife.
In 2020, Watson discussed her future career plans, stating: "Having been so public in making films and being so active on social [media] in my activism, I am curious to embrace a role where I work to amplify more voices, to continue to learn from those with different experiences", adding that her work would include "fewer red carpets and more conference meetings". In 2021, various reports surfaced stating that Watson was engaged or retiring. Watson and her representatives refuted these reports; she later labelled the speculation as clickbait and cited her relative public absence to continued social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, Watson reunited with multiple cast members of the Harry Potter film series for an HBO Max special titled Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. The following year, Watson revealed in an interview with the Financial Times that a reason why she had not acted in almost five years was because she "wasn't very happy" with the profession and that she felt "a bit caged". However, she went on to say that she will "absolutely" return to acting while also saying, "But I'm happy to sit and wait for the next right thing. My job is fulfilling. What's challenging is coming up with a solution that doesn't need me to separate into many identities. And the thing is, I'm sick of being a robot.
Job in the fashion industry
Watson started her modeling career in 2005 with a Teen Vogue photo shoot, making her the youngest person to ever cover the magazine. Three years later, rumors started circulating that Watson was going to replace Keira Knightley as Chanel's face, but both parties denied the reports. In June 2009, after months of speculation, Watson confirmed that she would be partnering with Burberry as the face of their Autumn/Winter 2009 campaign, for which she received an estimated six-figure fee. Watson also appeared in Burberry's 2010 Spring/Summer campaign alongside her brother Alex, musicians George Craig and Matt Gilmour, and model Max Hurd. In February 2011, she was awarded the Style Icon award from British Elle by Dame Vivienne Westwood. She continued her involvement in fashion advertising.
In September 2009, Watson announced her involvement with People Tree, a fair trade fashion brand. Watson worked as a creative adviser for the company to create a spring line of clothing, which was released in February 2010; the range featured styles inspired by southern France and London. The collection, described by The Times as "very clever" despite their "quiet hope that [she] would become tangled at the first hemp-woven hurdle", was widely publicised in magazines such as Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and People. Watson, who was not paid for the collaboration, admitted that competition for the range was minimal, but argued that "Fashion is a great way to empower people and give them skills; rather than give cash to charity you can help people by buying the clothes they make and supporting things they take pride in"; adding, "I think young people like me are becoming increasingly aware of the humanitarian issues surrounding fast fashion and want to make good choices but there aren't many options out there." Watson continued her involvement with People Tree, resulting in the release of a 2010 Autumn/Winter collection.
One of the most sought characters by our visitors is [Watson], so much so that in 2013 Madame Tussauds in London revealed a wax figure of Watson wearing an Elie Saab high couture outfit that the designer had contributed to the museum. At the 2014 British Fashion Awards, Watson was named Best British Style, beating out David Beckham, Amal Clooney, Kate Moss, and Keira Knightley, among millions of cinema and fashion enthusiasts across the globe.
Watson has been hailed as "an early adopter of sustainable fashion" and is known for her ethical red carpet style. In 2016, she sported a Calvin Klein gown made of recycled plastic bottles to the Met Gala. Watson has been an advocate for Good On You, an app that lists the sustainability levels of fashion brands. In 2017, she started an Instagram account called "The Press Tour," where she showcases the ethical brands she wore on film press tours (e.g., Beauty and the Beast and The Circle). In 2018, she guest-edited the March issue of Vogue Australia, which focused on fashion sustainability. Peter Lindbergh photographed her for the magazine. In January 2020, she teamed up with consignment website ThredUP to launch a "Fashion Footprint Calculator," which allows websi
Watson became the youngest member of Kering's board of directors in June 2020. Kering is the owner of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, among other fashion brands. Watson will chair the sustainability committee. Kering chairman François-Henri Pinault lauded the new board members' "knowledge and competences, and the multiplicity of their backgrounds and perspectives." Watson expressed her desire to "hope[d] to influence decisions that will impact future generations and the world that we leave them." She was also "extremely excited" to collaborate with the Kering Foundation as part of their women's rights work and looked forward to making a difference "behind the scenes." Watson served in this capacity until 2023.
Having appeared in, produced, written, and narrated the promotional short video for Prada Beauty's new fragrance Paradoxe in August 2022, Watson went on to become the face of the brand's sustainable Re-Nylon collection in January 2024.
* Protest and support for a cause *
Watson is an outspoken feminist. She has promoted education for girls, travelling to Bangladesh and Zambia to do so. In July 2014, she was appointed a UN Women Goodwill ambassador. That September, an admittedly nervous Watson delivered an address at UN Headquarters in New York City to launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which aims to urge men to advocate for gender equality. In that speech she said she began questioning gender-based assumptions at age eight when she was called "bossy", a trait she has attributed to her being a "perfectionist", whilst boys were not, and at 14 when she was "sexualised by certain elements of the media". Watson's speech described feminism as "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities" and declared that the perception of feminism as being "man-hating" is something that "has to stop". The speech made worldwide headlines from both major news outlets and fashion blogs, and the organisation's website crashed after press coverage of the event. Watson later said she received threats within less than twelve hours of making the speech, which left her "raging. The women's rights movement had the opposite effect on me if that was their intention.
According to Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the head of UN Women, "There was a time when people were debating the merits of feminism vs. its negative connotations". on 2015, Malala Yousafzai informed Watson that her speech had the last say on whether or not she would identify as a feminist.
In September, Watson also made her first country visit as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador to Uruguay, where she spoke at the Legislative Palace in Montevideo about women's political participation. In November 2014, she designed a Paddington Bear statue, one of fifty around London before the film's release; it was auctioned off to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). In December, Watson was named Feminist Celebrity of 2014 by the Ms. Foundation for Women, following an online poll. In January 2015, she delivered a speech about gender equality at the World Economic Forum's annual winter meeting.
Top of the AskMen "Top 99 Outstanding Women 2015" list was Watson, who had "thrown herself back" into women's rights issues. That same year, Watson made her first-ever appearance on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. In her recap of the list, former New York Times editor Jill Abramson praised Watson's "gutsy, smart take on feminism" and her "refreshing" effort to get men involved.
As an inspiration, Watson has mentioned Maya Angelou and Gloria Steinem. In January 2016, she launched a feminist Goodreads book club called Our Shared Shelf, with the aim of sharing feminist ideas and encouraging discussion. The club meets once a month to discuss a selected book; in February, the first book was My Life on the Road by Steinem, with whom Watson would later interview at London's How to: Academy. Although updates ceased in January 2020, the club is still open for recommendations.
Watson travelled to Malawi on the 2016 International Day of the Girl Child to meet with traditional chiefs and girls who had been freed from child marriage and were returning to school. Watson has collaborated with organizations like Book Fairies and Books on the Underground to distribute literature on public transportation for people to read.
In March 2017, Watson was the target of criticism over a Vanity Fair photo shoot in which one of the images showed a partially exposed breast. Some in the media accused her of hypocrisy, but Watson refuted the accusation, saying, "I really don't know what my tits have to do with it." She continued by saying that "feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women" and that the movement is about freedom, liberation, and equality.
In an interview with British Vogue, Watson stated, "I saw 'white feminism' coming up again and again, and I was like, 'Hey, this is clearly something I have to meaningfully engage with.'" This is just one example of how Watson has spoken about her white privilege in feminist forums. On Our Shared Shelf, she discusses intersectionality and her introspection on "What are the ways I have benefited from being white?" She writes, "I have to understand this better." How can I continue to sustain and support a system that is fundamentally racist?"
Watson is a member of Time's Up UK and helped launch it at the 71st British Academy Film Awards. She also helped establish industry guidelines on bullying and harassment, which the British Film Institute and British Academy of Film and Television Arts implemented. In February 2018, Watson donated £1 million to Time's Up UK. In October, she helped set up the organization's Justice and Equality Fund, which donated to women's groups across the country. Marai Larasi, an activist on the issue of violence against women, was her guest at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards.
At the 45th G7 summit in August, Watson was a member of the committee that aimed to "call on G7 to make political and economic advances for women within their own countries" and was a part of the G7 gender equality advisory group that Watson helped launch in July 2019. The group met at the Élysée Palace in Paris in February and provided legal advice to victims of workplace sexual harassment. Watson is a patron of Rights of Women, a charity that aims to empower women through the law.
In an interview with Paris Lees, she emphasized her support for transgender rights, a stance she later reiterated on Twitter amid the controversy surrounding Rowling's comments about gender identity. Watson has been vocal in her support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In June 2020, she uploaded a podcast episode onto Spotify in which she interviewed Reni Eddo-Lodge about her book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, and she shared anti-racism educational materials on social media in support of the George Floyd protests.
Watson was one of four hundred signatories to a letter urging the UK government to include women in "decision-making roles" at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. In July 2020, she collaborated with Lodge and the WOW Foundation to launch a project reimagining the London Underground Map, renaming the 270 stops to highlight women and non-binary people who have shaped the city's history. The initiative will consult writers, museums, and librarians and is scheduled to be published by Haymarket Books on International Women's Day 2021.
In June 2021, it was reported that Watson was part of a group of investors funding $12.5 million into FabricNano, a startup developing sustainable alternatives to petrochemical products. In January 2022, Watson showed support for the Palestine cause by posting an image of a pro-Palestinian protest with a "Solidarity is a verb" banner on Instagram. This received backlash from former Israeli science minister Danny Danon, who posted on Twitter, "10 points from Gryffindor for being an antisemite". Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan also criticised her. Danon's comment was criticised by Leah Greenberg, a co-executive director of Indivisible Project and Conservative Party peer Sayeeda Warsi. More than forty people, including Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo, Miriam Margolyes, Gael García Berna
At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Watson hosted a panel on climate change with guests including climate activist Greta Thunberg. Watson is an activist for environmental justice and climate change mitigation. In 2019, researchers from Lund University in Sweden analyzed the carbon footprints of ten celebrities, including Watson. Watson's footprint was the lowest of the celebrities analyzed, but her CO2 emissions from flying alone were still 15.1 tons of CO2, which is three times the global average.
Public perception
Watson is often mentioned as an inspiration, although she refuses to be called a role model because "it puts the fear of god into [her]". The way she has influenced young girls' perceptions of women's rights is called the "Emma Watson effect", and according to a National Citizen Service survey, many of her feminist activism's respondents identified with her. After Harry Potter, she moved on to smaller films instead of big-budget studio fare. According to Adam White of The Independent, Watson's acting style has "a very human sensitivity and quiet strength".
Derek Blasberg of Vanity Fair has described Watson's off-screen persona as "shy," "friendly, intelligent, and down to earth." Steinem has characterized her as "way more like a real person than a movie star," and author bell hooks sees her as part of "a very different, new breed [of actors] who are interested in being whole and having a holistic life, as opposed to being identified with just wealth and fame."
"I have met fans [with] my face tattooed on their bod[ies]," the actress said of the widespread cultural influence of her Harry Potter character, Watson. I've spoken to cancer patients who found solace in the Harry Potter series. Wow, the Harry Potter phenomenon is really taking off! Watson has been in the spotlight since the start of her career, with paparazzi trying to take pictures up her skirt on her eighteenth birthday and multiple stalking threats. She prefers to have one-on-one conversations with fans rather than selfies, citing security concerns.
In 2009, she was named to Forbes' list of "Most Valuable Young Stars" and in 2010, she was the highest-paid female star in Hollywood, with an estimated £19 million. In 2017, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes, with $14 million in annual earnings. Watson was named British GQ's Woman of the Year and topped Empire's list of the 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in 2013. In 2020, youGov found her to be the sixth most admired woman in the world.
**Private life**
Watson was named visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, in February 2016. In 2014, when questioned about her beliefs, she defined herself as a spiritual universalist.
Although Watson dated actor Chord Overstreet in 2018 and corporate executive Brandon Green from 2021 to 2023, her longest romance was with software entrepreneur William Knight, which lasted two years and ended in 2017.
In an interview with Elle Australia, she discussed her meditation training and how it helped her discover "a way to always feel safe and at home within myself" in the face of an uncertain future, referring to her decision to remain rooted in her own identity as a means to "find peace" after dealing with intense fame from a young age. In 2013, she became certified to teach yoga and meditation, and as part of that certification, she attended a week-long meditation course at a Canadian facility where residents are not allowed to speak. Simply said, I'll never be able to depend on a physical location.