Emma Watson was born on 15 April 1990 in Paris. An English actress, Watson was born in Paris and grew up in Oxfordshire, and at ten she was cast as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, appearing in all eight between 2001 and 2011. After the series she took roles in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bling Ring and Beauty and the Beast in 2017, and played Meg March in Greta Gerwig's Little Women. She studied at Brown University and graduated in 2014. As a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador she launched the HeForShe campaign for gender equality, and she has also supported sustainable fashion.
Before and after
- 11 February 1990Nelson Mandela is released from prison
- from March 1990 to March 1997South Armagh sniper campaign
- from 8 April 1990 to 10 June 1991Premiere of Twin Peaks
- 13 April 1990First flight of Sukhoi Su-34
- 15 April 1990Birth of Emma Watson
- 24 April 1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
- 7 May 1990Founding of European Environment Agency
- 22 May 1990Creation of Windows 3.0
- 12 June 1990Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
More in Art, literature & culture
- 29 October 1947Founding of Şalom
- from 13 August 1961 to 9 November 1989Construction of Berlin Wall
- c. 1970sRise of rapping
- 1 May 1999Premiere of SpongeBob SquarePants
- 4 January 2010Construction of Burj Khalifa
- from 17 April 2011 to 19 May 2019Premiere of Game of Thrones
The era
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