In addition to being a talented actor, Emma Watson is an activist, philanthropist, and all around role model.
The “Harry Potter” star has worked hard to use her platform for the greater good.
Whether that’s educating the public on humanitarian issues via her HeforShe campaign or encouraging her fans to pursue a deeper education.
She has a feminist book club because she’s just that cool, y’all.
The “Beauty and the Beast” actor was born in 1990. As a child, she attended a theater school and appeared in stage productions.
And her first professional gig was a little flick called “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Suffice to say, her life was changed forever when she tried out for the part of Hermione Granger.
And while most people would kill to be in her shoes, Watson has opened up time and time again about how uncomfortable she feels being in the public eye, as well as the various obstacles she’s overcome over the years. Without further ado, let’s take a look at some of the most tragic details about the “Harry Potter” alum.
As of 2022, Emma Watson has a reported net worth of $85 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She is estimated, according to the website, to have made $70 million from the “Harry Potter” franchise, and $15 million from her starring role in the “Beauty and the Beast” reboot. (Not to mention she is reportedly the sixth highest-paid female actor on the planet.) Yet despite having enough money to comfortably get by for a lifetime, things weren’t always so cushy for the “Perks of Being a Wallflower” star.
In a behind the scenes interview for the “Harry Potter” DVD set, Watson shared that her family struggled financially for a spell when she was growing up. In fact, money was so tight at one point, that her birthday presents were supplies for the costly school she attended. “My dad really couldn’t afford to send me to this school,” she recounted. “At the time we just didn’t have the money.” Watching the effort that her father put into making sure she could attend the institution was enough to keep her focused and dedicated to her studies. “I worked hard every single day that I was at that school to make him proud of me, and for him to know that I appreciated it,” she revealed. “And I do, and I still do.”
When Emma Watson found out she was going to be playing the role of Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” series, she was over the moon. Although she was only nine years old when she got cast, she was fiercely independent from the start.
As Watson told GQ in 2013, “My parents didn’t chaperone me. I think that was a key difference between me and Dan [Radcliffe] and Rupert [Grint]. I didn’t have my parents with me; I didn’t have a family member.” Her mom and dad could not travel around with her as she jetted from one location to the next because, even after their daughter landed a main role in one of the biggest movie franchises ever, they kept their jobs. “As my parents were divorced and they both worked full time, I had to grow up quickly,” she said. “I guess it made me quite a serious young person.”
Growing up in the spotlight and away from her family was not easy on Watson. “There’s been moments when everything just got so big, where I almost had vertigo on my own life,” she said in an interview with British Vogue. “And it’s got so big I felt disconnected.” She went on to tell the outlet that there were moments when she felt such a disconnect that she would question how she fit in with her own family.
Some celebrities thrive in the spotlight and take great pleasure in being showered with attention. And while many of us dream about fame and fortune, Emma Watson has not been a fan of the attention. And she feels bad that she isn’t a fan of the attention. “I’ve sat in therapy and felt really guilty about it,” she told British Vogue. “I’m like why me, somebody else would have enjoyed and wanted this aspect of it more than I did. And I’ve struggled a lot with the guilt around that. I’m like, I should be enjoying this a lot more, I should be more excited and I’m actually really struggling.”
Watson played Hermione Granger in all eight “Harry Potter” films, but as she shared in HBO Max’s “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts,” she nearly bowed out after filming “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Per People, she told co-star Rupert Grint, “I don’t know if you ever felt like it got to a tipping point where you were like, ‘This is kind of forever now.’”
The “Harry Potter” reunion was not the first time she’d touched on her desire to exit the series once and for all. “I was finding this fame thing was getting to a point of no return,” Watson told Vanity Fair in 2017. “I sensed if this was something I was ever going to step away from it was now or never.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, please contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741, call the National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264), or visit the National Institute of Mental Health website.
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