Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#471
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Emma Watson works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Emma Watson appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emma. An Audience with Adele is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, crime, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eran Creevy, Greta Gerwig, James Ponsoldt and others, Emma Watson helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
An Audience with Adele (2021) as Self · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Hermione Granger · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Hermione Granger
Career snapshot
Ranked #471 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2001–2022
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
An Audience with Adele
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
An Audience with Adele
Most frequent director
David Yates
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With David Yates
Most common genre
Adventure
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.7
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ballet Shoes, The Tale of Despereaux — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.6
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ballet Shoes, The Tale of Despereaux.
Most productive era
2010s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.41 film | 6.67 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.52 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Crime | — | 5.41 film | 6.01 film |
| Romance | — | 7.23 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hermione Granger.
Career peak
2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
8.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2022Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
The current state of the argument, as Self.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
23 of 23 films
as Hermione Granger
Directed by David Yates
as Hermione Granger
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
as Hermione Granger
Directed by Chris Columbus
as Hermione Granger
Directed by Mike Newell
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Hermione Granger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hermione Granger gives Emma Watson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hermione Granger
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Performance score8.5
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hermione Granger is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hermione Granger
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Performance score8.4
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hermione Granger is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
An Audience with Adele (2021)
Performance score8.3
An Audience with Adele asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Hermione Granger
Start here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the clearest statement of what Emma Watson does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Emma at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but asks for a colder reading of it.
An Audience with Adele (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Yates
Director
4 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Chris Columbus
Director
2 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sandra Goldbacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Ballet Shoes
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably My Week with Marilyn
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bling Ring
Evan Goldberg
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is the End
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Noah
Florian Gallenberger
Director
1 film together
Notably Colonia
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
James Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Circle
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Women
Eran Creevy
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Yates
Director
4 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2Chris Columbus
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneAlfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanMike Newell
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little WomenStephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Perks of Being a WallflowerEran Creevy
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to HogwartsFlorian Gallenberger
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ColoniaBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Week with MarilynSandra Goldbacher
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ballet ShoesEvan Goldberg
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is the EndDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NoahJames Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CircleSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bling RingSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Hermione Granger
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Little Women
as Meg March
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Hermione Granger
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Week with Marilyn
as Lucy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Hermione Granger
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Emma Watson has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
21 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in adventure, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Hermione Granger
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Hermione Granger
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Little Women
as Meg March
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Regression
as Angela Gray
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Hermione Granger
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
This Is the End
as Emma Watson
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Colonia
as Lena
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Hermione Granger
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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