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Emma Watson: Snapshot

Name: Emma Watson
Date of Birth: April 15, 1990
Birth Place: Paris, France

As bushy-haired know-it-all Hermione Granger, Emma Watson helped work box-office magic when Harry Potter hit the big screen. But as she wraps the remaining installments of the multi-billion-dollar fantasy series about a bespectacled boy-wizard, Watson's proving there's life (and style) after Hogwarts.

Plucked out of her Oxford, England, school at 9, Watson gained overnight stardom in the 2001 film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, with costars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. Six movies later, the young British actress has avoided the pitfalls of fame, joining the fashionista set (she's the new face of Burberry!) and soon the Ivy League.

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Emma Watson: Five Fun Facts

Emma Watson kept a wishbone she received from her dad during her audition process for Hermione. "I still have that wishbone upstairs in my jewelry box," she told Interview magazine.
When having boy troubles, Emma Watson turns to her Harry Potter costars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. "I'll occasionally go and chat to Dan and Rupert and say, 'What is going on here? I don't understand,'" she admitted at a London press conference.
Emma Watson had no problem punching costar Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. "I loved every single second of it," she told the Boston Herald. "Girl Power!"
Of all of Hermione's magical abilities, Emma Watson most envies her character's Time Turner. "I'd love to be able to stop time," she told CosmoGIRL!, "just take a break and come back into it."
Famed Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld shot Emma Watson for French fashion magazine Crash in 2009. "We spent the whole day together," she said. "I was totally seduced."

Emma Watson: Biography

1999: Handpicked for Hermione
During a nationwide casting search, 9-year-old Watson is picked out of a school assembly to audition for the role of Hermione Granger in the screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. On her ninth callback, Watson lands the role. "I just felt like that part belonged to me," she tells Interview magazine. "I know that sounds crazy, but from that first audition, I always knew."
2000s: Growing Up Hogwarts
Watson spends the next decade on Potter sets with Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter, and Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley. Of maturing onscreen, Watson tells Vogue Italy, "In a way, it's hard to grow up inside a film. I lived a period of my life that is full of lessons and changes under the spotlight."
2001: November 15
The Harry Potter Effect
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone breaks box-office records, earning $976 million worldwide. Six years later, the first five Potter films tally a worldwide box office total of more than $4.47 billion. Watson's reaction to Pottermania? "I had no idea of the scale of the film – the fame – or I would have been completely overwhelmed," she tells Parade.