The Hollywood star, who played Hermione Granger in all eight Harry Potter movies, grew up in the city after being born in Paris.

Having taken an indefinite leave from acting in recent years, she has instead been focused on pursuing her academic goals.

Ms Watson opted to study a master’s degree in creative writing in September 2023, before it was announced in February that she had switched to a DPhil.

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Emma Watson. (Image: Photo: Matt Crosick/PA)

It was revealed that during her studies, the 35-year-old had written a play about herself and handed it in at university as her final project, for which she earned a distinction.

Speaking about the subject to Jay Shetty on his On Time podcast, she opened up about being a “super famous person” at Oxford University.

Mr Shetty said: “Emma wrote a play which helped her closest friends and family understand her experience of life basically. Is that a bad description?”

Ms Watson replied: “No, no, it’s not a bad description.

“But like specifically, I wrote the play about me transitioning from basically being a full-time actress, an activist to trying to move home and like be a normal student and attend a normal university as a super famous person.

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The University of Oxford. (Image: Jacob King / PA)

“And I basically kept a journal of what those experiences were like and chronicled them for my friends and family for about a year, and then performed it as a one-woman show at the end of the first year and handed that in as my first year piece of work and yeah. Yeah.”

Mr Shetty then asked: “Did it get an A?”

“It got a distinction, it actually did,” Ms Watson responded.

“Not that that was the point, but it kind of wasn’t the point, but I think the coolest thing was like I read it for my roommate, for example, who’s been living with me for 7 years, and he was like, ‘Wait, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop’.

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“He’s like, ‘Is this actually how you feel? Like, do you actually feel this?’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, I wouldn’t have written it if I didn’t’.

“And he was like, ‘I had no idea that this was how you felt’, and this is someone I live with.

“And so for me, who I perceive myself to be, this like massive open book, and actually I realised, I was like wow, I think I’m doing a good job of bringing the people that I love along with me on what this feels like and actually I’m not saying nearly enough or explaining it in a way where it makes sense.

“And so even my parents were just like- couldn’t believe it really.”