Harry Potter actress banned from driving for six months for rushing

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has been banned from driving for six months, after she was caught rushing.

Watson, who performed Hermione Granger within the movie franchise, drove a blue Audi at 38mph in a 30mph zone in Oxford on the night of 31 July final 12 months.

Watson already had 9 factors on her licence earlier than the rushing incident occurred, the courtroom heard.

The 35-year-old, now a scholar, was made to pay a complete of £1,044 at Excessive Wycombe Magistrates’ Court docket on Wednesday.

She didn’t attend the five-minute listening to. Representatives for Watson have been approached for remark.

Watson’s lawyer, Mark Haslam, instructed the courtroom that she is a scholar, including: “She is able to pay the high quality.”

The actress has been finding out a grasp’s diploma in inventive writing on the College of Oxford since 2023.

Watson shot to fame in 2001 with the discharge of Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone, alongside fellow little one stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

She starred in eight Potter movies in complete, with the final being launched in 2011, earlier than happening to look in motion pictures akin to Magnificence and the Beast, The Bling Ring and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Watson’s final movie position was within the 2019 remake of Little Girls, directed by Greta Gerwig. She launched her personal sustainable gin model along with her brother in 2023.

A brand new TV adaptation of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books is at the moment in manufacturing, starring Dominic McLaughlin as Harry, alongside Arabella Stanton as Hermione and Alastair Stout as Ron.

John Lithgow has been solid as Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall and Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape.

The sequence, being produced by HBO, is predicted to take a decade to finish.

Individually, one other Harry Potter actress, Zoe Wanamaker, was fined for rushing on the identical day and in the identical courtroom as Watson.

Wanamaker, who performed Madam Hooch within the wizarding sequence, was caught rushing on 7 August 2024, on the M4 in Newbury, Berkshire.

The 76-year-old was driving at 46mph in a 40mph restrict, the courtroom heard.

She was additionally fined £1,044 and banned for six months.

Wanamaker’s lawyer Duncan Jones stated that she was not asking for “particular remedy” and accepted the high quality.

Like Watson, Wanamaker had 9 factors on her licence earlier than the rushing incident occurred.

District Choose Arvind Sharma, sentencing, endorsed three extra factors on each stars’ licences, that means each are disqualified for six months.