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4->''"Hermione just stole all of our shit."''
5-->-- '''Creator/DannyMcBride''' ({{as himself}}), ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd''
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7Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born April 15, 1990 in Paris, France) is a British actress.
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9She's best known for playing Hermione Granger in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. Her most notable post-''Potter'' roles have been Samantha "Sam" Button in ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'', Nicki in Creator/SofiaCoppola's ''Film/TheBlingRing'', Ila in Creator/DarrenAronofsky's Biblical epic ''Film/{{Noah}}'', Belle in ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2017}}'' (the Disney live-action remake), and Meg March in Creator/GretaGerwig's ''Film/{{Little Women|2019}}''.
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11As of July 2014, she is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, campaigning for women's rights and gender equality.
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13Since ''Little Women'' in 2019, she has taken a break from acting, focusing instead on her modeling and activism careers. However, she has said that she'll return to acting when the right project comes along.
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15No relation to Creator/EmilyWatson.
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17!! Selected filmography:
18* ''Film/HarryPotter'' series (2001–2011) as [[Characters/HarryPotterHermioneJeanGranger Hermione Granger]]:
19** ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' (2001)
20** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' (2002)
21** ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' (2004)
22** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' (2005)
23** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' (2007)
24** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' (2009)
25** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows -- Part One'' (2010)
26** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows -- Part Two'' (2011)
27* ''Film/BalletShoes'' (2007) as Pauline Fossil
28* ''WesternAnimation/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' (2008) as Princess Pea
29* ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'' (2011) as Lucy
30* ''Film/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'' (2012) as Sam
31* ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'' (2013) [[AdamWesting as herself]]
32* ''Film/TheBlingRing'' (2013) as Nicki Moore
33* ''Film/{{Noah}}'' (2014) as Ila
34* ''Film/{{The Colony|2016}}'' (2016) as Lena
35* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2017}}'' (2017) as Belle
36* ''Film/{{The Circle|2017}}'' (2017) as Mae Holland
37* ''Film/{{Little Women|2019}}'' (2019) as Meg March
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39!!'''Tropes that apply to Watson include:'''
40* AbilityOverAppearance:[[invoked]] JK Rowling said it was very good that she spoke to Emma over the phone before meeting her in person -- as she realised Emma was perfect for Hermione when she spoke for a whole minute without taking a breath. Then when Rowling met Watson, she realised Watson was much prettier than how she had imagined Hermione.
41--> '''Creator/JKRowling''': "I just kind of had to go 'okay, okay, [[AdaptationalAttractiveness it's film]], deal with it.'"
42* ActorSharedBackground:[[invoked]] The ''Beauty & the Beast'' remake gives Belle a backstory of being born in Paris. Emma too was born in Paris but her family moved back to England when she was a child (her parents are lawyers and were working in Paris at the time of her birth).
43* AdamWesting: In ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'' she plays a ClusterFBomb version of herself who robs the protagonists.
44* AdvertisedExtra: She's barely featured in ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'' and abruptly disappears during the second act. She was given a lot of press for starring in it.
45* BabyNameTrendStarter: Even the popularity of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' films didn't suffice to put the girls' name [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Hermione]] into the [[https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ top thousand female baby names]], let alone the top ten (unlike, say, the less popular single film ''Film/{{Splash}}'' with Madison). However, ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' no doubt caused Emma's own name (already rising in popularity) to bump from 13th (in 2001) to 4th (in 2002) -- a jump much bigger than the ranks suggest. Emma has been in the top three girls' names every year since then.
46* BestKnownForTheFanservice:[[invoked]]
47** It's widely agreed that ''Film/TheBlingRing'' would have been almost forgotten if it weren't for Emma in skimpy outfits or her famous seductive tongue roll.
48** ''Film/BalletShoes'' caused fans to go nuts for a brief scene of her in a bath with Yasmin Paige. The scene lasts a minute and they're only shown from the shoulders up.
49** As soon as ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' came out, MoralGuardians reacted with shock at the naked images of Harry and Hermione kissing.
50* CharacterTics:
51** Her infamous "eyebrow acting".
52** Mouthing her costars' lines.
53* ContractualPurity: Watson has said she'd be willing to do nudity in films, presumably to avoid this trope. She's flirted with darker roles -- for example Sam in ''The Perks of Being a Wallflower'' was molested at a young age, and Nicki in ''The Bling Ring'' is a MsFanservice. She also joked that she's received about twenty Bibles as gifts from fans.
54--> "People think I need to be guided."
55* {{Corpsing}}: She was the subject of a featurette for ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' based around how often she lost it while filming scenes at Xenophilius's house. Rhys Ifans even nicknamed her 'giggles' and she had to be given a 'red card' (meaning sent off set to calm down). During the ''Return to Hogwarts'' featurette filmed for HBO Max, she admits to corpsing alongside Rupert Grint when it came down to filming a kissing scene between Hermione and Ron if only because both found it hilariously awkward to film a romantic moment with someone who is essentially [[LikeBrotherAndSister a surrogate sibling]], which was egged on even more by Daniel Radcliffe's incessant {{Troll}}ing off-screen.
56* CoveredInGunge: She and Creator/RupertGrint had this happen to them (she got it worse) live on American TV.
57* DawsonCasting: She was initially the same age as Hermione but was twenty when the last film was made (and Hermione is only eighteen). It started out inverted, with Emma being ten and playing Hermione who turned twelve a couple weeks after the start of the first school year. Emma is also the youngest of the Golden trio actors, while Hermione is the oldest member of the Golden trio. She continued to play teens in her early twenties too.
58* DyeingForYourArt: She became blonde to play Pauline in ''Film/BalletShoes'', who is desirable because of her beautiful blonde hair.
59* EnforcedMethodActing:[[invoked]] When filming "Be Our Guest" in ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', Emma was so bored at having to sit in a chair for the whole scene that the crew had to keep telling her jokes to get her to laugh -- inverting her {{Corpsing}} entry.
60* FakeAmerican: In ''Film/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'', ''Film/TheBlingRing'', ''Film/TheCircle2017'' and ''Film/LittleWomen2019''.
61* IAmNotSpock: She's gone to great lengths to avoid this since ''Harry Potter'' ended, cutting her hair short and pursuing very different roles -- and not making it a secret that she'd be willing to do nudity. She has however said that she is very like Hermione in some ways.
62* PlayingAgainstType:
63** She uses the F-word several times in ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd''. Bonus points for being called Hermione after robbing a group of men, in the quote at the top of the page.
64** ''Film/TheBlingRing'' shows her as a vapid ditz who robs celebrity houses, smokes weed and gets shamelessly drunk.
65** A milder version in Creator/GretaGerwig's adaptation of ''Film/LittleWomen2019'', where Watson plays the most traditionally-minded sister, Meg, rather than the more obviously [[Film/HarryPotter Hermione]]-like Jo.
66* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle:
67** She had to dye her hair blonde for ''Film/BalletShoes'' - and Hermione therefore has blonde hair in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''.
68** As noted above, she cut her hair into a pixie to celebrate finishing with the ''Harry Potter'' franchise, which is why she has short hair as Sam in ''Film/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower''.
69* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
70** The sequence at the end of ''Chamber of Secrets'' when Hermione hugs Harry but not Ron came about because Emma was too embarrassed to hug both boys in front of everyone. Additionally the hug with Harry had to be slowed down in editing because Emma kept breaking it too quickly.
71** In ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', the scene in the book where Hermione slaps Draco Malfoy is changed to her punching him, because Emma accidentally slapped Creator/TomFelton full force during rehearsals. Feeling terrible about it, it was changed to a punch (which is easier to fake safely).
72* RealitySubtext: ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'' was her first R-rated film, which is oddly paralleled in the scene where Colin and Lucy nearly do it -- but get interrupted by her parents.
73* ThoseTwoActors:
74** She starred alongside Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) in most of the ''Harry Potter'' movies and ''Film/BalletShoes''. The latter also featured fellow ''Potter'' cast member Gemma Jones (Madam Pomfrey) -- who is only in three out of the eight films.
75** She played Logan Lerman's love interest in ''The Perks of Being A Wallflower'' and his sister-in-law in ''Noah''.
76* WagTheDirector:[[invoked]] She felt Belle of ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' wouldn't wear a corset as part of her costume, despite the film trying to be slightly more historically accurate in terms of wardrobe.
77* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
78** The first choice for Ila in ''{{Film/Noah}}'' was Creator/DakotaFanning. When she couldn't fit it into her schedule, Emma was cast instead.
79** She briefly considered leaving ''Film/HarryPotter'' after the fifth film, but soon realized she couldn't bear to see anyone else play Hermione. Ironically enough the reason she considered leaving was that she was finding it hard to keep up with her school work. She later joked at what a Hermione-ish thing to do it was.
80** She was tapped to play Beauty in a Creator/GuillermoDelToro version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The project fell through.
81** She turned down the role of Mia in ''Film/LaLaLand'' in order to star in ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017''. Creator/EmmaStone got the part after Damien Chazelle decided to make the protagonists a little older. ''Film/LittleWomen2019'' reverses this, with Watson taking the role of Meg March after Stone dropped out.

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