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Emma Watson is an English actress and model born in 1990 in Paris, France. Watson initially became well known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series. She has also appeared in films such as Ballet Shoes, The Tale of Despereaux, My Week with Marilyn, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bling Ring, and This is the End. Awards Watson has won include a Young Artist Award, National Movie Ward, Capri Art Film Festival Award, and Teen Choice Award.

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28 Aug, 2015

Regression

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In this thriller directed by Alejandro Amenabar, based on a book by Amenabar, Watson plays a young woman who encounters painful memories of Satanic ritual abuse while under hypnosis. Then her father confesses to the crime, an investigation uncovers a conspiracy. Co-starring Ethan Hawke, David Dencik, David Thewlis and Dale Dikey.

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19 Apr, 2015

Time 100 Most Influential list

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Time names Watson in its 100 list of top influencers primarily for her #HeForShe campaign. Watson’s international campaign calls for gender equality, even inviting men to give their support. Other actors on the list include Bradley Cooper and Julianne Moore. The magazine:

Her HeForShe speech at Davos was an Internet sensation, but unsurprisingly, it drew the typical antifeminist rants and even some threats. Watson chose to highlight the moving letters she has received from fathers who tell her they are investing new hope in the future for their daughters. But she was also frank about the bullying tactics of her detractors and one site that made an empty threat to release nude photos. Her confident and cool reaction: ‘If they were trying to put me off, they did the opposite.’

26 Mar, 2015

Named most outstanding woman

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AskMen places Watson on top of their list of 99 most outstanding women. Publisher Bassil :

Emma Watson is so many incredible things at once — rich, successful, famous, stylish, beautiful, intelligent, personable, kind. And yet, rather than be content with a life of luxury, she’s thrown her back into a serious social issue in an effort to shift the way our society treats women.

13 Mar, 2015

Comic Relief appearance

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Watson makes a surprise appearance on Vicar of Dibley skit in Rose Nose Day 2015 celebration.

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Total Film magazine interviews Watson about biggest challenge of taking up role of Belle in live action remake of Beauty and the Beast

I sing, so that’s really unexpected. I’ve never had to do that for a film role before, and I think people will be interested to see me do something very different like that.It gives me a different challenge, really. That’s terrifying in and of itself!

5 Mar, 2015

To host HeForShe event

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Watson announces hosting a live HeForShe event on gender equality in London.

Sunday the 8th march it’s International Women’s Day. It’s very exciting and I hope that you will also be excited because I am going to be conducting a live Q&A in London answering your questions about gender equality.

1 Jan, 2015

Elle South Africa cover

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Watson appears on the cover of the January 2015 issue of Elle South Africa magazine. She talks about the United Nations and feminism.

Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice.

21 Sep, 2014

UN gender equality speech

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Watson delivers a speech for the HeForShe gender equality campaign at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

When I was eight, I was confused about being called “bossy” because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents. But the boys were not. When at 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media, when at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t want to appear “muscle-y,” when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.

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1 Aug, 2014

Protests Turkish politician’s sexism

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Representing her role as U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador and joining scores of Turkish women on Twitter, Watson posts a photo of herself laughing in public aimed at the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister.  The photos are in protest to Bülent Arınç’s speech about moral corruption in Turkey where he states that women should not laugh out loud in public.

7 Jul, 2014

UN Goodwill Ambassador

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UN Women, the UN’s gender-equality entity, names Watson the new Goodwill Ambassador. Watson will work on the organization’s women’s-empowerment campaign, HeForShe, and is the first to be appointed under the leadership of Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Under Secretary-General and executive director of U.N. Women. Mlambo-Ngcuka believes that Watson’s “intellect and passion” embodies the values of U.N. Women, and that her experience promoting girls’ education in countries such as Bangladesh and Zambia, will help spread the organization’s mission.

Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting.  I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.

 

Crashes UN website

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Watson tweets her excitement about joining UN Women to her 13 million followers, causing the UN’s website to crash.

30 Jun, 2014

UK investigates US housekeeper

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The actress is under investigation by British immigration officials after receiving complaints that she employed an American housekeeper while living in the United Kingdom.  Watson reportedly traveled to the UK with her US housekeeper who continued to work for her.  The housekeeper, who was hired in New York in early 2013, possessed a tourist visa which strictly prohibits visitors in the UK from working.  Watson could face up to $17,000 if fines if found guilty. The actress’s rep has yet to respond to requests for comment.

25 May, 2014

Graduates from Brown

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Watson graduates from Brown University with a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature. In an interview with Elle, Watson mentions that people didn’t always support her:

So many people told me it wasn’t possible.  I kept saying, ‘I don’t care.’ This is what I want. And graduating will, for me, be really symbolic of all of that. I will be there. And I will be throwing a huge party.

3 Apr, 2014

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Elle Magazine interviews Watson about growing up in the public eye.

There are these actresses who have emerged in the last year or two, and they get to emerge as this complete human being. And I’m so jealous! Because everyone has seen me with my terrible haircuts and my awful teeth and all the terrible things I wore and the stupid things I said. I mean, there was a dress I wore to the final Harry Potter premiere. I looked like I was trying to dress like a sugarplum fairy. I looked like a meringue.

28 Mar, 2014

Noah

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Watson stars in Noah, a film portraying the story of Noah and his mission by God to save the innocent animals on Earth as rising floodwaters cleanse the planet of mankind’s evil. In the movie, Watson portrays Ila, the adopted daughter of Noah (Russel Crowe) and his wife, Naameh (Jennifer Connelly).

I think it’s a really original take on a genre, on a story, on an idea.

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13 Mar, 2014

Elle cover

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1394722228_emma-watson-elle-cover-467The actress appears on the cover of the April 2014 issue of Elle magazine. She talks about how she is jealous of other actresses.

There are all these actresses who have emerged in the last year or two, and they get to emerge as this complete human being, and I’m so jealous!