Emma Watson is an English 🏷️#actress and activist best known for playing Hermione Granger across the eight 📝Harry Potter films (2001–2011). Born in Paris in 1990 to English parents, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts and was cast in her first professional role at age eleven. Her later films include The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Noah (2014), Beauty and the Beast (2017), and Little Women (2019).

Watson earned a BA in English literature from Brown University in 2014 and began a Master of Studies in creative writing at the 📝University of Oxford in 2023. As a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, she launched the HeForShe campaign in a 2014 speech at UN Headquarters, framing gender equality as a cause men should help carry. From 2020 to 2023 she sat on the board of the luxury group Kering as an advocate for sustainable fashion. She has not released a feature film since Little Women, and in a September 2025 interview she described stepping back from public life as a choice that left her happier and healthier.