Emma Watson-Biography

                               Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (Emma Watson) was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France to parents Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both British lawyers .When Emma was 5 her parents Divorced and she then moved to Oxfordshire, England with her mother Jacqueline Luesby and younger brother Alexander, spending weekends in her father's house in London. After the divorce, her extended family has grown as her parents both have new partners. Her father has a son named Toby, and identical twin daughters, Lucy and Nina, and her mother has two sons. Emma spent most of her childhood residing in England with her mother and stepfather, younger brother, and two stepbrothers.

                                                 

                          From the age of’ 6’ she wanted to be an actress, she trained for a number of years at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing and acting. Watson's natural instinct for acting first came out when she was seven, when she won a poetry competition for reciting James Reeves' "The Sea". By the age of ‘10’, she had performed in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and the Happy Prince, but she had never acted professionally when her theater teachers suggested her to agents looking to cast an upcoming movie based on the first novel of the best-selling Harry Potter series. "I had no idea of the scale of the film series," she said in a 2007 interview with Parade "If I had I would have been completely overwhelmed."