After adjusting for inflation, Emma earned at least $70 million from Harry Potter base salaries alone. She then earned $30 million for Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2, combined. Harry Potter SalaryĮmma earned $4 million for 2007 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'.

She was ranked sixth on Forbes's list of 'Most Valuable Young Stars' in 2009, and the following year, she was recognized as Hollywood's highest paid female star, having racked in a total of $24.8 million in 2009. Her performances in the films, acting alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, earned Watson plenty of recognition and awards.īy the summer of 2007, Watson's work in the famous series was estimated to have earned her more than $13 million, at which point she acknowledged that she was set financially and would not have to work to make a living again. SuccessĪt the peak of her Harry Potter career, Watson earned $15–$20 million per year in acting salary alone. 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. She was only nine years old when she got her first major acting assignment, playing the character Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. Her parents enrolled her in at the Oxford branch of the Stagecoach Theater Arts, where she received instruction in the fine art of acting. Watson first realized she wanted to be an actress when she was six years old. She spent weekends with her father, Chris Watson, at his home in London. 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. Emma Watson was born Emma Charlotte Duere Watson on Apin Paris.

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