Date of Birth :
6 November 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Birth Name :
Emily Jean Stone
Height
5' 6" (168 cm)
Bio
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, to Krista (Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeffrey Charles Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish (from her paternal grandfather), English, German, Scottish, and Irish descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, where she made her stage debut in a production of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows". She appeared in many more productions through her early teens until, at the age of 15, she decided that she wanted to make acting her career.
The official story is that she made a PowerPoint presentation, backed by Madonna's "Hollywood" and itself entitled "Project Hollywood", in an attempt to persuade her parents to allow her to drop out of school and move to Los Angeles. The pitch was successful and she and her mother moved to LA with her schooling completed at home while she spent her days auditioning.
She had her TV breakthrough when she won the part of Laurie Partridge in the VH1 talent/reality show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004) which led to a number of small TV roles in the following years.
Her movie debut was as Jules in Superbad (2007) and, after a string of successful performances, her leading role as Olive in Easy A (2010) established her as a star.
Trivia
- Green eyes, Distinctive husky voice
- Attended Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Although she's known as a redhead, her natural hair color is blonde. It was Judd Apatow who suggested she change her hair color for Superbad (2007) and she liked it so much that she decided to keep it.
- She convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood when she was age 15 by making a PowerPoint presentation aptly titled, Project Hollywood.
- Her idols are Gilda Radner, Diane Keaton and Marion Cotillard.
- Her parents owned the Camelback Golf Course in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- She didn't know she had asthma until she had an asthma attack while filming Easy A (2010).
- Started to use "Emma" as her professional name, because there was already an "Emily Stone" when she applied for her SAG card.
- When she was age 7, she fell off the parallel bars in gymnastics and broke both her arms.
- Friends with Mila Kunis and Taylor Swift, Jonah Hill and Jennifer Lawrence.
- She is a Lutheran.
- Is a big fan of Marion Cotillard and revealed to French newspaper L'Express that she can't count the times that she reenacted the scenes from La Vie en Rose (2007) in her room.
Known For
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
as Sam
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
as Gwen Stacy
The Croods (2013)
as Eep (voice)
Gangster Squad (2013)
as Grace Faraday
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
as Gwen Stacy
The Help (2011)
as Skeeter Phelan
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
as Hannah
Zombieland (2009)
as Wichita
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
as Allison Vandermeersh
Superbad (2007)
as Jules
Monday, November 23, 2015
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