Google-search – Searching for a name when missing some chars of it

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I was wondering if there existed a way to search for the name of somebody when some letters of its name were missing. For instance, let's say we know the profession of somebody but only have the first letter of his first name and the first and last letter of his name and his profession :

E. WN, British actress that played in Harry Potter.
Which would be Emma Watson.

In my memories one could use * when a word was missing but what about some chars?

I tried :

"British actress E." W*N

But I'm not sure that * stands for several missing chars.

Best Answer

you can try:

"british actress emma" wa*on

or

"british actress emma w*n"

or

british actress emma w*n

Google can guess missing characters if it has some solid base like first name