50 Fun Facts About Emma Watson

Emma Watson grew up in Oxfordshire, but in which European capital was the actress actually born?

Paris was home only briefly: she lived in nearby Maisons-Laffitte until she was five, then moved to England with her mother after her parents divorced.

Emma Watson's Calvin Klein gown for the 2016 Met Gala was made out of which unusual material?

Recycled plastic bottles suited an actress known as an early adopter of sustainable fashion, who later logged the ethical brands from her press tours on Instagram.

Emma Watson dedicated her British Artist of the Year award to Millie, what kind of childhood pet?

A hamster called Millie died while Watson was filming the first Harry Potter movie, and more than a decade later she honoured her at the Britannia Awards in Los Angeles.

Which other Emma had a childhood photo wrongly shown as Emma Watson in the 2022 Harry Potter reunion?

Roberts was not the only slip in the first release of Return to Hogwarts, which also labelled twins Oliver and James Phelps as each other.

Emma Watson rejected the title role in which Kenneth Branagh Disney film before agreeing to play Belle?

Cinderella did not connect with her, she later explained, so the glass slipper went to Lily James while Watson waited for a heroine she liked better.

Which Ivy League university did Emma Watson graduate from in 2014, between film roles?

Brown awarded her a bachelor's degree in English literature, and she spent one year of the course as a visiting student at Worcester College, Oxford.

Which activist told Emma Watson that her United Nations speech had made her call herself a feminist?

Malala Yousafzai was not the only one listening: coverage of the 2014 speech sent so many visitors to the campaign's website that it crashed.

Which gender-equality campaign did Emma Watson launch with a speech at United Nations headquarters?

HeForShe asks men and boys to speak up for women's rights, and an admittedly nervous Watson introduced it to delegates in September 2014.

In which Harry Potter film does Emma Watson's Hermione punch Draco Malfoy in the face?

Prisoner of Azkaban gave Watson a more assertive Hermione, a change she relished, and Total Film named hers the child performance of the year.

Which Harry Potter co-star did Emma Watson confess to having a crush on while making the films?

Tom Felton has said the feeling was mutual, though not at the same moment, and Watson called the two of them soulmates in the foreword to his memoir.

Which actor played the Beast opposite Emma Watson's Belle in Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast?

Dan Stevens performed the role through motion capture, spending much of the shoot in a forty-pound grey suit on stilts.

Which of the four March sisters does Emma Watson play in Greta Gerwig's 2019 film of Little Women?

Meg went to Watson only after Emma Stone dropped out, because promoting The Favourite clashed with the shoot.

Where in Hollywood did Emma Watson and her Harry Potter co-stars leave hand, foot and wand prints?

Grauman's Chinese Theatre took the three young stars' prints in July 2007, the same month Watson's earnings from the series were reported to have passed £10 million.

Which device lets Emma Watson's Hermione attend several classes at once in her third year at Hogwarts?

A Time-Turner is slipped to her in secret by Professor McGonagall, and it later lets her and Harry go back to save Sirius Black and Buckbeak.

In 2013 Emma Watson qualified as a teacher of meditation and which other mind-and-body practice?

Yoga and meditation were, she told Elle Australia, a way to feel safe and at home within herself when she could never rely on a physical place.

Which British fashion house made Emma Watson the face of its Autumn/Winter 2009 advertising campaign?

Burberry reportedly paid her a six-figure fee, then cast her younger brother Alex beside her in its next campaign the following spring.

Which actor plays tech boss Eamon Bailey opposite Emma Watson in the 2017 thriller The Circle?

Tom Hanks runs the company that Watson's character, Mae Holland, joins in customer support before being drawn deep into its surveillance schemes.

Emma Watson spent a week at a private retreat in Canada under a vow of what?

Silence helped her, she told British Vogue in 2015, to work out how to be at home with herself as a relationship was coming to an end.

Which director cast Emma Watson as a fame-hungry burglar in the 2013 true-crime film The Bling Ring?

Sofia Coppola surrounded her with young unknowns the same age as the real burglars, and Watson's performance drew the film's warmest reviews.

In her 2014 United Nations speech, Emma Watson recalled being called what at age eight?

Bossy was the word she got, though the boys did not, for wanting to direct the plays children put on for parents; it set her questioning gender assumptions.

Who backed Emma Watson for the role of Hermione after seeing only her first screen test?

J. K. Rowling was convinced early, yet nine-year-old Watson, whose only experience was in school plays, still had to get through eight auditions.

Emma Watson's parents, Chris Watson and Jacqueline Luesby, both worked in which profession?

Lawyers both, they divorced when she was five, and her father also ran a wine business that later inspired his children's own drinks brand.

What do the Muggle parents of Hermione Granger, Emma Watson's Harry Potter character, do for a living?

Dentists, and proud if slightly bemused ones: their creator pictured them as the sort of couple who would choose an unusual name to prove their cleverness.

Who takes Emma Watson's Hermione to the Yule Ball in the Harry Potter films, provoking Ron Weasley's jealousy?

Viktor Krum is the Durmstrang champion and a Bulgarian Quidditch star, played on screen by Stanislav Ianevski.

A Polyjuice Potion mishap in her second year leaves Emma Watson's Hermione looking like which animal?

A cat, because the hair she added to her vial was not human, so she had to sit out the spying mission she had brewed the potion for.

Which honorary title did UN Women give Emma Watson in July 2014, two months before her famous speech?

Goodwill Ambassador was no ceremonial post: that September she flew to Uruguay to speak at the Legislative Palace about women in politics.

Emma Watson designed a butterfly-themed statue of which storybook character for a 2014 London trail?

Paddington Bear stood in fifty versions around London before the release of his first film, and Watson's Flutterby Bear was auctioned for the NSPCC.

Which network's 2017 ceremony gave Emma Watson a Best Actor in a Movie prize open to men and women alike?

MTV had not let men and women compete jointly for its acting prizes since 2007; Watson won for Beauty and the Beast over Hugh Jackman and Daniel Kaluuya.

Which actor played Charlie opposite Emma Watson's Sam in The Perks of Being a Wallflower?

Logan Lerman worked with her again two years later in Noah, playing Ham, one of the sons aboard the ark.

Who plays the title role in the 2014 biblical epic Noah, with Emma Watson as his adopted daughter Ila?

Russell Crowe's Noah takes Ila in as an orphan, and Watson researched childbirth in depth for the scene in which she gives birth aboard the ark.

Who plays Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, the film with Emma Watson as wardrobe assistant Lucy?

Michelle Williams earned an Oscar nomination for the part, while Watson's Lucy goes on a date with Eddie Redmayne's young film-set assistant.

Emma Watson voiced Princess Pea in The Tale of Despereaux, whose book-loving hero is what kind of animal?

A mouse, and an odd one: taken to the royal library to learn how to chew books, Despereaux would rather read them, and he is banished for talking to a human.

In which 2013 apocalypse comedy does Emma Watson play herself and rob James Franco's house of drinks?

This Is the End was her first comedy, a chance she said she could not pass up because it meant working with some of the best comedians around.

Emma Watson and her brother launched Renais in 2023 to make which spirit from leftover wine-grape skins?

Gin was the siblings' nod to their father's wine business: the name Renais comes from a French word for rebirth, and the spirit is certified carbon neutral.

Which Italian fashion house hired Emma Watson to star in and direct the film for its Paradoxe fragrance?

Prada let her write and narrate the campaign film as well, and in 2024 she became the face of its sustainable Re-Nylon collection.

Nearing thirty, Emma Watson told a British magazine she preferred which term for being happily single?

Self-partnered was her word for it in 2019, after admitting that the pressure to have a home, a husband and a baby by thirty had left her anxious.

Which BBC film of a Noel Streatfeild novel gave Emma Watson her first role outside Harry Potter?

Ballet Shoes cast her as aspiring actress Pauline Fossil, one of three adopted sisters, and went out on BBC One on Boxing Day 2007.

Emma Watson guest-starred in a 2015 Red Nose Day special of which BBC sitcom?

The Vicar of Dibley cast her as Reverend Iris in a sketch called The Bishop of Dibley, one of several short charity specials to feature famous guests.

On which book-review site did Emma Watson launch her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf, in 2016?

Goodreads hosted one chosen book a month, each discussed in its final week, until the club stopped updating in January 2020.

Which Harry Potter actor, the films' Remus Lupin, rejoined Emma Watson in the 2015 thriller Regression?

David Thewlis plays a professor in the film, which stars Watson opposite Ethan Hawke and was directed by Alejandro Amenábar.

Emma Watson's 2015 thriller Colonia is set during a 1973 military coup in which South American country?

Chile under General Pinochet is the backdrop: Watson plays Lena, a Lufthansa stewardess who joins a notorious cult to rescue her abducted boyfriend.

In 2020 Emma Watson joined the board of which luxury group, the owner of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent?

Kering appointed her the youngest member of its board and named her to chair its sustainability committee; she served until 2023.

Whose memoir My Life on the Road was the first pick of Emma Watson's feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf?

Gloria Steinem, one of the influences Watson has cited, then sat down to be interviewed by her in London the following month.

Which world leader convened the G7 gender equality advisory council that Emma Watson joined in 2019?

Emmanuel Macron hosted that year's G7 summit, which Watson attended after co-writing a newspaper article urging every member to adopt a feminist foreign policy.

Which Oxford preparatory school did Emma Watson attend until 2003, before moving on to Headington School?

The Dragon School taught her while she was already famous as Hermione, and on the Harry Potter sets she was tutored for up to five hours a day.

At which part-time performing arts school in Oxford did Emma Watson learn acting, singing and dancing?

Stagecoach productions and school plays were her only acting experience when casting agents found her through her Oxford theatre teacher.

Which Dreamgirls director cast Emma Watson as Belle in Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast?

Bill Condon's film let Watson reshape the character: her Belle is an inventor herself and wears boots and bloomers.

Which French beauty brand announced Emma Watson as its new face in March 2011?

Lancôme signed her a month after Dame Vivienne Westwood presented her with British Elle's Style Icon award.

For which ethical clothing label did Emma Watson work unpaid as creative adviser on a 2010 collection?

People Tree released a second range with her that autumn, and she argued that buying clothes from their makers helps them more than giving cash to charity.

Which novelist directed Emma Watson in the film of his own book The Perks of Being a Wallflower?

Stephen Chbosky worked with her again five years later, as a co-writer of the Beauty and the Beast screenplay.