Harry Potter star Emma Watson stepped out for the 2025 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game Feb. 14 amid her ongoing literature studies at Oxford University.
Emma Watson is trading quidditch for basketball.
The Harry Potter star, who is currently completing her masters degree in literature at Oxford University in England, made a rare public appearance when she stepped out at the 2025 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game in Oakland, Calif., Feb. 14.
In a video posted on ESPN’s TikTok page, the 34-year-old—dressed casually in a black T-shirt and matching pants—beamed as she waved and blew kisses to a spectator before having a brief courtside chat with EDM musician Tucker Halpern, who played in the star-studded face-off alongside Noah Kahan and Pablo Schreiber.
Emma has kept a relatively low profile since taking up her studies. Back in July, the Beauty and the Beast actress stepped out in the English suburb of Jericho for a PDA-filled date with Kieran Brown, a PhD student whom she met at Oxford, according to the Daily Mail.
In addition to sparking up a new romance, Emma shared that she also gained valuable life experience by stepping away from acting to pursue her education.
“I’m just so glad that I did,” she told British Vogue in December 2023, “because I have this feeling of having my own voice and creative space and sovereignty in some way that I don’t think I did before—more autonomy.”
And while the leap into academia may have been daunting, Emma made it clear the move was well worth the risk.
“I’m so glad that I allowed things to be messy for a minute and to really allow myself to not know [what’s next],” the Brown University alum continued, “because the knowing that I’ve come to, I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”
Emma’s schooling also seemed to give her a new perspective on her celebrity status.
“I get a front row seat [with] some of the most successful, beautiful, incredible people in the world,” she explained. “And when you have that seat it becomes very, very clear that there is just absolutely no level of success that will make you in any way happy or content if you do not like who you are or enjoy what you’re doing when no one’s watching.”
For more on what Emma and other Harry Potter alums have gotten up to since their Hogwarts days, keep reading.
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