Emma Watson was born Emma Charlotte Duere Watson on April 15, 1990 in Paris. She has four siblings. Following her parents’ divorce when she was five years old, Watson moved from France to England—where both of her parents are originally from—with her mother, Jacqueline Luesby. She spent weekends with her father, Chris Watson, at his home in London.
Watson first realized she wanted to be an actress when she was six years old. Her parents enrolled her in at the Oxford branch of the Stagecoach Theater Arts, where she received instruction in the fine art of acting.
She was only nine years old when she got her first major acting assignment, playing the character Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. Prior to being cast in the Harry Potter movies, Watson had never set foot on a film set and had only performed in a handful of stage pieces.