Emma Watson
Watson at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival excelentphoto/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Date of Birth: 15 April, 1990
Ethnicity: English, as well as 1/32 German, distant Welsh, remote Scottish
Emma Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. She is known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter world, as well as for her roles in the films The Tale of Despereaux, My Week with Marilyn, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bling Ring, Noah (2014), Colonia, Regression, Beauty and the Beast, The Circle (2017), and Little Women (2019), and the BBC film Ballet Shoes. She has modeled for Burberry and Lancôme, promoted sustainable brand People Tree; and created Renais, a gin brand, with her brother Alex Watson. She has been a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, launched the UN campaign HeForShe, advocating for gender equality, and helped launch Time’s Up UK.
Emma was born in Paris, France, to English parents, Chris Watson and Jacqueline Luesby, both lawyers. Her father was born in Surrey South Western, Surrey, and her mother in Boston, Lincolnshire. She lived in Paris until the age of five, before moving to England, living in London and Oxfordshire. She can speak some French.
Emma has said that her father was born in Iran, where her paternal grandparents, who were English, spent some time; though his birth is registered in Surrey South Western.
One of Emma’s paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Charles William Rudolph Duerre, was German, from Memel, Prussia. Charles was the son of Carl Gottlieb Dürre and Amalie Carolina Schroeder.
Emma’s paternal grandfather is Philip/Phillip James Watson (the son of Harry/Harold Kenneth Watson and Gwendoline Elsie Tiller). Philip was born in Brentford, Middlesex, England. Harry was the son of Thomas Watson and Ethel Louise Riley. Gwendoline was the daughter of James Tiller and Jennet/Janet Down, whose own mother was of Welsh origin.
Emma’s paternal grandmother is Freda E. Duerre (the daughter of Frederic E. Duerre and Susannah Martha Pannell). Freda was born in Lambeth, London, England. Frederic was the son of Ernest Frederick Duerre and Ellen Emma Soul. Susannah was the daughter of Albert Isaac Pannell and Susannah Sarah Hutchings.
Emma’s maternal grandfather is Colin Luesby (the son of Horace Luesby and Edith Speck). Colin was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England. Horace was the son of John Peake Luesby and Susan Ward. Edith was the daughter of Robert Speck and Fanny Smith.
Emma’s maternal grandmother is Greta M. Dickinson (the daughter of John George Dickinson and Winifred Jane Bonsor). Greta was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. John was the son of George Dickinson and Elizabeth Rebecca A. Walton. Winifred was the daughter of William Bonsor and Mary Jane Tanser.
Both of Emma’s maternal grandparents were from families that had lived in Lincolnshire for several generations.
Watson in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.comBirth
Sources: Family tree of Emma Watson – http://emmawatsonupdates.files.wordpress.com
Genealogy of Emma Watson (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
She’s ethnically English, though she looks more Mediterranean then Anglo-Saxon. This is just part of the normal variation of Anglo phenotype (Sean Connery and Colin Farrell being two other prominent examples). Seems to be somewhat more common among the Welsh for some reason, and in particular these with the surname “Jones”.
With her pale complexion with brown eyes and hair, if I didn’t know she was ethnically British I might guess Ashkenazi.
People don’t always look like the ethnic group they belong to.
many anthropoligists say in British and Irish people there is a Mediterranen component, different from Med of South Europe but still Med. Britain has a long history before Anglo-Saxon arrival. Actually a guy like Farrell is absolutely average, only a fool can think the Irish are a bunch or redheads
@andrew September 14, 2013 at 5:34 pm
many anthropoligists say in British and Irish people there is a Mediterranen component, different from Med of South Europe but still Med. Britain has a long history before Anglo-Saxon arrival. Actually a guy like Farrell is absolutely average, only a fool can think the Irish are a bunch or redheads@
That’s not all. There’s no evidence that Anglo-Saxons were light-pigmented in comparison with native Britons, so considering that modern Scandinavian- German population have strong Meditteranean component like Ann-Kristin Flatland or Moritz Bleitbreu it is absolutely no wonder that Mediterranean anthro.types are well represented in all Europe. but they differ surely from another Meds. Atlantic Mediterranean complex strethes along Atlantic coast from some groups of Morrocan-Algerian Berbers (which without Arabic-Semitic influence) to Scandinavia
Colin Farrell is definitely not average for Irish Andrew and most Irish aren’t redheads either. The majority of Irish are most likely to be blue eyed, fair skinned and hair that is light brown to medium brown that would be the average colouring but you can find every combination in Ireland from brunets to blonds. Colin is definitely darker than the average for a Irishman.
Genetics of people if fairly well known now and there is no Moroccan-Algerian Berber ancestry in the British Isles. It sounds exotic but it is non-existant in those populations.
Genetic results for populations are easily obtained on the internet so no mysteries there.
How Berber genetic ancestry can be extended in British Isles??? :)
i’m talking about anthropological type. Some groups of Berbers demonstrate Mauretanian influence (Negroid), some of them. Arabic (Middle Estern), but another isolated groups, in Atlas mountains, in their North-Western parts retain appearns which very closed to Europeoid. It doesn’t have to do with genetic. It is very ancient phenomenon
By the way, a little about genetic: There’s some interference between North-Western Africa and Europe. in total. European R1b, I2, G. Caucasian-Minor Asian J2 and African E1b reflects some correlation between ancient Berbers and Europeans.
Also, ancient Egyptian depiction of XIII century BC, there’s a picture of Egyptian, Assyrian, Ethiopian and Lybian persons, the latter has got the lightest pigmentation of them.
And don’t forget about the Guanches which described as tow haired.
@ marc 2
I read they’ve found little Berber genetic imput in Scotland. Ann-Kristin Flatland isnt Med, she could fit in Central Europe, Moritz Bleibtreu maybe, he’s of Austrian descent and he could fit into Italy too IMO (close nations, no big deal)
Farrell is a movie star, I presume he doesnt live in Ireland but in California or places like that thats why he’s more tanned than the average Irishman. He has brown hair/eyes as Ryan Reynolds (random example) who’s of Irish descent too, someone wrote here there’s a resemblance between them.
http://www.celebrity9.com/img/colin-farrell/colin-farrell-2.jpg
http://ethnicelebs.com/ryan-reynolds
Actually I think Colin looks a bit like Eric Cantona here
http://cinema-tv.guidone.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/colin-farrell-winters-tale.png
@andrew October 16, 2013 at 5:37 am
Ann-Kristin Flatland isnt Med, ,@
With dark brown hair, brown eyes and level of skin pigmentation which impossible in context of real nordic types?! Yes, of course she is of Mediterranean family. Almost exemplary atlanto-med.
@she could fit in Central Europe@
Anyone europeoid from Volga river to France could fit in Central Europe, cause it is the most mixed region in Continent :)
@Moritz Bleibtreu maybe, he’s of Austrian descent and he could fit into Italy too IMO (close nations, no big deal)@
However, Germanic origin. But so far from Aryan model :)
Most Irish can’t take a tan like Colin. That’s why Ireland has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in Europe and why countries like Australia have one of the highest rates in the world due to a lot of people of Irish and British descent. Freckled skin is the most common type of skin in Ireland. As I said most Irish don’t look like Colin Farrell not to say that some Irish don’t tan but that is a minority.
@ Marc 2
she is not Med at all, who cares about the hair/eye colour, it’s not so relevant. I meant she could fit into Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italian Alps.
“Aryan model”?? man we are in 2013 do u still think to this bullshit? come on..
There is black Irish people in Ireland lots in the Cork and Dublin and Sligo there is lots of Black Irish people.
Emma Watson could have been Jewish.
@andrew October 16, 2013 at 3:20 pm
she is not Med at all, who cares about the hair/eye colour, it’s not so relevant.@
Sorry, we talkin about about anthropological complex now or place of birth?
Physical appearance, that’s what makes Med and distinguishes them from all other
@I meant she could fit into Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italian Alps.@
Everyone could fit there, it’s not an indicator
@“Aryan model”?? man we are in 2013 do u still think to this bullshit? come on..@
I know that this is a bullshit, just like the opinion that Germanic nations is the homeland of all of the European nordoids
What does this comment mean? She has no recent Jewish ancestry and yes she is capable of converting to Judaism in Britain, France, U.S. etc.
Um, have you heard of the Roman conquest and the 410 years the Romans have ruled over the British Isles? Obviously not!
These features (i.e. Mediterranean features) entered Britain during the Neolithic. It has nothing to do with Romans. Leave pop-anthropology at the door and do some research. Uninformed pontifications on race and ancestry are ALWAYS wrong in my experience. Just read roman2886’s comments on everything for a perfect example.
I said that myself she defiantly looks Italian she doesn’t look German at all ethnic Germans look nothing like her the Northern Germans are true Germans the ethnic Germans they look very German even Nordic Northern Germany is very close to Denmark.
if you get rid of the stereotype that whites are blonde-blue eyed humans, you won’t have such dumb conclusions :D
Her mother has a typical French name btw.
As well as Bianka, Jasmine, Miriam, Katja, Tanja, Sonja,
Ronja…(I mean, real english, not immigrants)
But Duerree is a french surname
Maybe you spelled the name wrong?
Dürre?
Dear Follers, don’t wonder, that I became a bit
sceptic, if I see “a german name”. Everybody want
to be “german”. Especially, profil of Clara Bruni
brought me to laugh
I wouldn’t dispite.
she is a French-born Englishwoman of German descent
well that’s still german
SOOOOO PRETTY! :D lol she seems so sweet, and she was great in Harry Potter. Pixie cut or not, she is stunning.
English girls are the BEST,