Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born to Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, English lawyers who are now divorced. She lived in Paris until the age of five. Watson moved with her mother and brother to Oxford, England, after her parents' divorce. Watson has a younger brother Alexander, who is three years her junior. After their divorce, her biological mother and father both had children with other partners. As of 2007, Watson is the eldest of an extended family of seven children.
From the age of 3, Watson had expressed the desire to become an actress.By age 10, she had starred in several school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. She also entered the Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition in which, at the age of seven, she won first place for her year. In 2005, Watson became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine, until the subsequent appearance of American actress Willa Holland.
On July 19, 2007, Watson announced her involvement in her first non-Harry Potter project, The Tale of Despereaux, an animated film to be released in 2008. She will voice the character of Princess Pea.
Subscribe to our RSS Feed