Emma was born in France, in a family of lawyers and she lived in Paris until the age of five and then moved with her mother to Oxford, England. Her parents, Jacqueline Duerre and Chris Watson divorced in 1995. She has a brother, Alex, who was born in 1993. As a young girl, Emma attended The Dragon School and by 2003, she was attending the Headington School in the city of Oxford. In June 2006, Emma Watson took the GCSE examinations achieving eight A and two A grades. She is now studying to take the Advanced Subsidiary levels in Art, Dance and English literature.