


The Harry Potter franchise won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February 2011.Ģ011 saw Emma in Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn (2011), alongside a stellar cast of Oscar nominees including Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, in addition to Eddie Redmayne, Dame Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Zoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones and Dominic Cooper. The completion of the seventh and eight movies saw Emma receive nominations in 2011 for a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award, and for Best Actress at the Jameson Empire Awards. Emma acquired two Critics' Choice Award nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her work in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. She continued to play the role of Hermione Granger for nearly ten years, in all of the following Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). Later, Emma was nominated for five awards for her performance in the film, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film.Īfter the release of the first film of the highly successful franchise, Emma became one of the most well-known actresses in the world. The highly distributed British newspaper, 'The Daily Telegraph', called her performance "admirable". Critics praised the film and the performances of the three leading young actors. The film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001. The release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) was Emma's cinematic screen debut. After eight consistent auditions, producer David Heyman told Emma and fellow applicants, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, that they had been cast for the roles of the three leads, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher. In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (2001), the film adaptation of British author J.K. By the age of ten, she had performed and taken the lead in various Stagecoach productions and school plays. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing and acting. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers.
