Emma Watson received an expensive birthday present on her 18th birthday – she gains access to her huge $20 million fortune.

The British star has been given complete reign over the money she has earned through appearing in all five of the Harry Potter films.

Although Watson, who turned 18 on Monday, is in control of her millions for the first time, the star’s money management skills are under intense scrutiny by a team of financial advisors, according to Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper.

In a deal with England’s royal bank Coutts, who also look after her co-star Daniel Radcliffe’s fortune, the actress is required to make low-risk, high-interest investments and attend courses on how to be a responsible millionaire.
The star, who is currently working on the franchise’s latest outing Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, is paid $5 million (GBP2.5 million) for her role as the schoolgirl wizard.

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She may be a few years off hanging up her broomstick, but life outside Hogwarts is already shaping up nicely for Emma Watson. The Harry Potter star, who was catapulted to fame when she took the role of Hermione at just 9, is starring in a new BBC production, Ballet Shoes.

In the feature-length film, set in 1930s London, Emma plays the part of orphaned Pauline Fossil, who is adopted by an eccentric explorer, played by Richard Griffiths. While the young actress says she couldn’t pass up the “amazing project,” she has revealed she occasionally craves a normal teenage life away from the spotlight. She told the Daily Telegraph: “I’m not the girl they get the number 19 bus into town with to grab a coffee.”

I just get mobbed. It’s an uncomfortable experience for everyone. Sometimes I miss the fact that I have never really been a teenager because I have been Hermione for such a long time.” Emma has already amassed a 20 million dollar fortune, but she is applying to Cambridge University as a backstop “in case acting doesn’t work out.” Still, the 17-year-old is grateful for her early success: “I just tell myself I won the lottery.”

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She just looks so classic here….a real beauty. My faves are the black and whites.

On the photo shoot outfits:

“I love the clothes and that there’s so much colour”

“I wish I could dress like this every day of my life.”

On shunning the services of a stylist:

“Getting someone else to choose things takes the fun out of it”

On playing Pauline in the TV film Ballet Shoes:

“She reminds me a lot of me when I was younger,” she laughs. “I was such a drama queen.”

On her social life:

“Literally, for the past three weekends I’ve been at an 18th birthday party”.

On meeting the public:

“Recently, a woman took my arm, looked at me very seriously and said, “You’re quite pretty in real life”. I didn’t quite know how to take it!”

Check out this behind the scenes video with Emma. This issue of InStyle will be on stands tomorrow! Also check out Jessica Alba on the cover, below!