See Emma Watson Grow Up In Front of the Camera

  • Emma Watson first starred as Hermione Granger at the age of 11 in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 2001.
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  • Emma Watson arrives at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001 in London.
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  • Emma Watson attends the premiere of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York.
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  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002.
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  • Emma Watson at the Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone DVD launch party held on platform 9 3/4, King's Cross Station in 2002, in London.
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  • Emma Watson attends the UK Premiere of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets at The Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square in 2002 in London.
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  • Emma Watson attends the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in New York in 2002.
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  • Emma Watson attends the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Los Angeles in 2002.
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  • Emma Watson poses in the pressroom at the British Academy Children's Film And Television Awards in association with The Lego Company, at the Hilton Hotel in 2003 in London.
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  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004.
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  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005.
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  • Emma Watson in Ballet Shoes, 2007.
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  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2009.
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  • British actress Emma Watson is seen at Chanel's spring-summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection designed by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, in Paris in 2008.
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  • Emma Watson arrives for the World Premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, at a cinema in Leicester Square, London in 2009.
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  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, 2010.
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  • Emma Watson poses for photographs in 2010 following an interview with the Associated Press to discuss her role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.
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  • Emma Watson attends the Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows - Part 1 NYC premiere at Alice Tully Hall in New York in 2010.
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  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, 2011.
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  • Emma Watson arrives in Trafalgar Square, London, for the world premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011.
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  • Emma Watson arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.
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  • Emma Watson in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012.
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  • Emma Watson attends the premiere of This Is the End at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles in 2013.
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  • Emma Watson in The Bling Ring, 2013.
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  • Emma Watson is interviewed at the premiere of The Bling Ring at the Director's Guild of America theater in Los Angeles in 2013.
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  • Emma Watson in Noah, 2014.
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  • Emma Watson attends the premiere of Noah in Berlin in 2014.
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  • Emma Watson arrives for the UK premiere of Noah in London in 2014.
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  • UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pose for a picture while they attend the HeForShe campaign launch at the United Nations on September 20, 2014 in New York.
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April 15, 2015 12:46 PM EDT
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