From the age of six, Emma knew that she needed to be an actress and, for variety of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre faculty where she studied singing, dancing and acting. By the age of 10, she had performed and brought the lead in numerous Stagecoach productions and college plays, as well as "Arthur: The Young Years" and "The Happy Prince". In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and therefore the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), the film adaptation of British author J.K. Rowling's bestselling novel. Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher. once eight consistent auditions, producer David Heyman told Emma and fellow candidates, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, that that they had been forged for the roles of the 3 leads, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
