Her favorite Harry Potter book is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Since her film career began, she has kept a meticulously detailed record of her daily life; around 30 diaries in total.
Harry Potter's best friends, who essentially grew up with them on the Harry Potter set, star alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. She calls them 'my brothers'.
Both her mother and father are English, and they were living in Paris when Emma was born. Emma lived in France until she was five, when her family returned to the United Kingdom.
At fifteen, she became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue.
She was offered the lead role in Cinderella (2015) but turned it down.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she was named 'Highest-Grossing Actress of the Decade'. Her film work over the past decade grossed more than $5.4 billion worldwide (2009).
She auditioned eight times for the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films (at age 9) and read opposite five potential Harrys before landing the part.
She earned eight A* and two A grades in her GCSEs (the exams English school students take in the final compulsory year of secondary school).
She was offered the role of Mia in La La Land (2016) but turned it down for Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017), in which she played Belle.
Both of her parents are lawyers.
She prefers signing autographs to taking photos with fans.
She enjoys playing hockey, netball and tennis, skiing, painting, cooking, singing and dancing (she competed twice for her school in the Rock Challenge, in 2006 and 2007).
She has said she wants to work with directors Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro.
Emma's favorite films include Notting Hill (1999), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), About Time (2013), Giant (1956), Breathless (2008), Amélie (2001), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Fountain (2006), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Gladiator (2000), Braveheart (1995), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Philomena (2013), Blue Jasmine (2013), Rush (2013), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Great Beauty (2013), The Woodmans (2010), Closer (2004), Pretty Woman (1990), Chicago (2002), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Dirty Dancing (1987), Grease (1978), Shrek (2001), Ice Age (2002) and Finding Nemo (2003).
Emma's favorite actresses are Julia Roberts, Renée Zellweger, Sandra Bullock, Rebel Wilson, Goldie Hawn, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Natalie Portman and Meryl Streep.
Emma's favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Russell Crowe.
She is a certified yoga and meditation instructor.
Her parents divorced in 1995; both have since remarried. Through her father she has a younger half-brother, Toby, born in 2003, and half-sisters (identical twins) Lucy and Nina, born in 2004. Lucy and Nina played the younger version of the character Pauline in Ballet Shoes (2007). She also has two stepbrothers from her mother's remarriage.
(May 25, 2014) She graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in English literature.
She is a fan of The Golden Compass (2007) and the rest of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy 'His Dark Materials'.
Between September 1995 and July 2001 she attended the Dragon School in Oxford, a preparatory day and boarding school. She then attended Headington School, a private girls' school, until July 2006.
In the summer of 2008 she enrolled in a Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She was named after her paternal grandmother, Freda Emma Duerre, who became Freda Emma Duerre Watson upon marriage.
When she appeared on a Dutch TV talk show to promote Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), the interview ended with her taking part in the Dutch illusion act Magic Unlimited, which sawed her in half.
She shares the same birthday with Beauty and the Beast co-star Luke Evans and Harry Potter collaborator Emma Thompson.
Emma's favorite television programs include Friends (1994), Sex and the City (1998), Girls (2012), Gossip Girl (2007), America's Next Top Model (2003), Mad Men (2007), House of Cards (2013), Pride and Prejudice (1995) and The Crown (2016).
She pursues legal action after private photographs in which she tries on various outfits are stolen and published online.
She ranked 3rd on Empire Magazine's '100 Sexiest Movie Stars' list.
She was rated as having one of the most beautiful famous faces by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She ranked 2nd in 2010, 12th in 2009, 27th in 2008, 30th in 2007 and 54th in 2006.
She and her Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint ranked 9th on Entertainment Weekly's Best Entertainers of the Year list in 2005.
Radio One film critic James King named "Ron Weasley" and "Hermione Granger", played by Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, number 4 on his Top 5 Movie Couples list on The Colin and Edith Show (2006).
She was chosen as the face of the Autumn/Winter 2009 Burberry campaign.
In 2004 she served as a juror at the First Light Film Awards for young filmmakers. The ceremony was held in Leicester Square, London. Other jurors included Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Morton.
In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at 4 million dollars.
In 2008 she passed her driving test in the US and drives a Toyota Prius.
Emma's style icons include Jean Seberg, Mia Farrow, Kate Bosworth, Diane Kruger, Jane Birkin, Edie Sedgwick, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Sofia Coppola, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Françoise Hardy, Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Obama.
She announced that she would collaborate with the fair trade fashion company People Tree as creative consultant for its new Spring/Summer collection.
Emma's favourite producers are Richard Curtis, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Sofia Coppola, Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Lynne Ramsay, Ang Lee and Tom Hooper.
She ranked 8th on Portrait Magazine's 'Top 30 Under 30' list (2009). Her 'Harry Potter' co-stars Evanna Lynch, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe also made the list, at 3rd, 5th, 7th, 14th and 18th place respectively.
She spoke at the United Nations in favour of Women's Rights, including abortion.
She ranked 15th on Forbes' Top 20 Highest-Earning Young Superstars list.
She was a frontrunner for the role of Yelena Belova in Black Widow (2021), but the role went to Florence Pugh.
She ranked 4th among the most loved celebrities according to fan votes compiled by Portrait Magazine. Harry Potter co-star Bonnie Wright also ranked 5th.
Her favourite singers include Justin Timberlake and Alanis Morissette.
She ranked 3rd on Moviefone's '25 Hottest Actors Under 25' list.
She ranked 3rd on Yahoo's Top 10 Most Popular Stars of 2007 list.
She ranked 69th on Maxim magazine's list of the top 100 women of 2011.
She once accidentally confused Jimmy Fallon with Jimmy Kimmel.
She ranked 17th on Ask Men's 2012 list of the 99 'most desirable' women.
She was Entertainment Weekly's July (2009) "Entertainer of the Month".
She ranked 8th on Portrait Magazine's 'Top 30 Under 30' list.
She ranked 94th on Maxim magazine's 2008 Hot 100 list.
She was considered to voice Coraline Jones in "Coraline", a role that later went to Dakota Fanning.
She ranked 97th on Forbes' Celebrity 100 list.
She ranked 3rd on Teen Vogue's Best Dressed Celebrities of 2009 list.
She ranked 29th on Askmen's 2013 list of the 99 Most Desirable Women.
She ranked 28th on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' actors list.
She ranked 15th in FHM Australia's 2011 "100 Sexiest Women" ranking.
She ranked 23rd on FHM's 2011 "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list.
She ranked 6th on MSN's 'Best Dressed Stars of 2009' list.
She ranked 29th on the 2010 FHM UK "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list.
She ranked 1st in Empire Magazine's 'Sexiest Movie Stars' poll, voted on by more than 50,000 people worldwide.
She ranked 26th on Empire Magazine's '100 Sexiest Movie Stars' (2007) ranking.