Emma Watson

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Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born April 15, 1990) is a British actress who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and its sequels Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). She is to continue the role in the fourth movie of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is in production (as of 2004) and slated for release in late 2005.

Watson, who was named after her paternal grandmother of the same name, was born in Oxford, England. Her parents, who are both lawyers, are now divorced. She began showing interest in acting as soon as she entered school and began to participate in several plays (including Arthur the Young Years, where she played Morgan Le Faye), The Daisy Pratt Poetry contest (in which she won first place), and even on a video production they made. However, she had no professional acting experience prior to her being cast as Hermione.

As a result of her critically acclaimed performance in The Chamber of Secrets, on 14 January 2003, she won the award for "Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female" in the Phoenix Film Critics Awards. Her performance in The Prisoner of Azkaban was also well-received, but had an additional effect – it propelled her to #8 on the Lycos Top 50, and she is the only "Potter Star" to have appeared on that list.

A myth that she is known to her family as "Emma Watson (II)" came about through her being included in the Internet Movie Database under that name. The Roman numeral simply indicates that she was the second actress named Emma Watson in their database.

She has a younger brother, Alex, who was born in 1993. Outside of acting, she enjoys hockey, tennis, and rounders. She is not related to actress Emily Watson.



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. Zeta-Jones has determined that her children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside dream home in her hometown of Swansea. She is not related to actress Emily Watson. Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. Outside of acting, she enjoys hockey, tennis, and rounders. (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Douglas - while her British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration). She has a younger brother, Alex, who was born in 1993. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000.

The Roman numeral simply indicates that she was the second actress named Emma Watson in their database. Zeta-Jones is married to the actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. A myth that she is known to her family as "Emma Watson (II)" came about through her being included in the Internet Movie Database under that name. She has also starred on the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Her performance in The Prisoner of Azkaban was also well-received, but had an additional effect – it propelled her to #8 on the Lycos Top 50, and she is the only "Potter Star" to have appeared on that list. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. As a result of her critically acclaimed performance in The Chamber of Secrets, on 14 January 2003, she won the award for "Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female" in the Phoenix Film Critics Awards. Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokesperson for the mobile phone company T-Mobile.

However, she had no professional acting experience prior to her being cast as Hermione. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Chicago in 2003 (when she quoted the Welsh chant "Oggy Oggy Oggy" in her acceptance speech). She began showing interest in acting as soon as she entered school and began to participate in several plays (including Arthur the Young Years, where she played Morgan Le Faye), The Daisy Pratt Poetry contest (in which she won first place), and even on a video production they made. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. Her parents, who are both lawyers, are now divorced. Her exotic good looks, teamed with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. Watson, who was named after her paternal grandmother of the same name, was born in Oxford, England. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

She is to continue the role in the fourth movie of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is in production (as of 2004) and slated for release in late 2005. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born April 15, 1990) is a British actress who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and its sequels Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she was appearing in Forty-Second Street in the West End. Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. As a child she had a tracheotomy leaving a scar.

She was born to a Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic extraction and has two other brothers, besides English she speaks Welsh fluently. Born Catherine Jones in Mumbles, Wales, her last name stems from two different grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine, while the other is "Zeta," named after a ship that her great-grandfather sailed on. Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress. Ocean's Twelve (2004).

The Terminal (2004). Intolerable Cruelty (2003). Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice). Chicago (2002).

America's Sweethearts (2001). Traffic (2000). High Fidelity (2000). The Haunting (1999).

Entrapment (1999). The Mask of Zorro (1998). Titanic (1996) (TV). The Phantom (1996).

Katharina die Große (1995) (TV). Blue Juice (1995). The Cinder Path (1994) (TV). The Return of the Native (1994) (TV).

Splitting Heirs (1993). The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992) (voice). Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992). The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV).

Out of the Blue (1991). Les Mille et une nuits (1990).