After eight consistent auditions, producer David Heyman told Emma and fellow applicants, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, that they had been cast for the roles of the three leads, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher. In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (2001), the film adaptation of British author J.K. By the age of ten, she had performed and taken the lead in various Stagecoach productions and school plays. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing and acting. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School.
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers.
