Born on November 6, 1988, Emily Jean “Emma” Stone is an American actress and producer. Emma Stone is an Academy Award–winning actor most recognized for her parts in more adult films such as Birdman (2014) and La La Land (2016), as well as well-known comedies such as Superbad (2007), The House Bunny (2008), Zombieland (2009), and Easy A (2010). For her parts in the latter two, she was nominated for Oscars, and she took home the Best Actress prize for her depiction of La La Land’s budding actress, Mia Dolan.
In addition to this, she has won many other awards, including two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a British Academy Film Award. She was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most important people in the world in 2017 and was the highest-paid actress in the world that year.
Emma Stone Biography: Quick Facts
- Birth Name: Emily Jean “Emma” Stone
- Birth Date: November 6, 1988
- Birth Place: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Gender: Female
- Career: Actress, Producer
- Most Known For: She became more well-known for her role as Gwen Stacy in the superhero movies The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 follow-up and gained further popularity for her role as Cruella Devil in the movie Cruella.
Early Life
On November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone was born into a family consisting of housewife Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager) and general contractor Jeffrey Charles Stone, who was the company’s founder and CEO. From the age of twelve to fifteen, she resided on the Camelback Inn resort grounds. Spencer is her younger brother.
Conrad Ostberg Sten, her paternal grandpa, was from a Swedish family who anglicized their last name to “Stone”. Her heritage also includes German, English, Scottish, and Irish people.
Stone received her education at Sequoya Elementary School and completed his sixth grade education at Cocopah Middle School. Stone claims that her anxiety and panic episodes as a youngster led to a deterioration in her social abilities. She saw a therapist, but claimed that what stopped the attacks was her involvement in performances at the neighbourhood theatre.
Since she was four years old, Stone has longed to perform. She first intended to pursue a career in sketch comedy, but she eventually changed her attention to musical theatre and spent years studying voice. At the age of eleven, she made her theatrical debut as Otter in a rendition of The Wind in the Willows. For two years, Stone was homeschooled.
During that time, she participated in the improvisational comedy troupe of Phoenix’s Valley Youth Theatre and starred in 16 productions, including The Princess and the Pea, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
She went to Los Angeles at this time in an attempt to get a part on Nickelodeon’s All That. Eventually, her parents enrolled her in private acting classes with a nearby acting instructor who had previously worked for the William Morris Agency in the 1970s.
Early Career
As the 2004 winner of the VH1 reality series In Search of the New Partridge Family, Stone had her big break. Eight budding young actresses competed in the reality show to play Laurie Partridge in a reimagining of the 1970s comedy. The singing, acting, and likeness to the real Laurie were the criteria used to assess the contestants.
After impressing the audience with a rendition of Pat Benatar’s “We Belong,” the young actress—who was then known by the name Emily Stone—was cast for the part. Despite never progressing past the pilot, the project launched Stone’s career and introduced her to her future manager, Doug Wald.
Following her stint on reality TV, Stone started to guest star on a number of popular shows, including as Medium and Malcolm in the Middle. She quickly secured a regular part on the drama Drive (2007), which ran for just one season, as 17-year-old Violet Trimble.
At this period, Stone went through the casting process for the popular science fiction series Heroes (2006), but the role went to teenage actress Hayden Panettiere.
‘Superbad,’ ‘and Ghost of Girlfriends Past,’ and ‘Easy A’
Stone debuted in a feature film in 2007 with Jonah Hill and Michael Cera in the adolescent comedy Superbad. Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow wrote and produced the picture, which was well-received by critics and performed well at the box office. A year later, Stone featured in two comedies: The House Bunny, starring Anna Faris, and The Rocker, starring Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate.
In the next years, Stone made a name for herself in Hollywood by appearing in a number of high-profile movies, including Paper Man, Zombieland, and Ghost of Girlfriends Past, all of which were released in 2009. 2010 saw Stone play the main character of Olive Penderghast in the adolescent comedy Easy A, which was her next major motion picture.
The film centres on the lives of an innocent high school kid whose reputation is threatened by rumours of promiscuity. It was inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Stone received a Golden Globe nomination for best actress for her humorous and endearing performance in the movie.
‘The Help,’ ‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’ ‘Birdman’ and ‘La La Land’
In 2011, Stone was praised by critics once more for her performance as Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a college graduate and aspiring writer, in the movie The Help, which was adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s book of the same name. The movie received nominations for a Golden Globe and an Oscar. Alongside Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell, Stone featured in the popular romance comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love in the same year.
Stone was chosen to play Peter Parker’s 17-year-old love interest, Gwen Stacy, in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 follow-up. She also starred in the films Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Croods (2013), and Gangster Squad (2013) around this period.
Playing the recovering drug addict and Hollywood star’s daughter in the drama/comedy Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) starring Michael Keaton, Stone was nominated for a 2014 Golden Globe and an Oscar. Away from the screen, Stone debuted on Broadway in late 2014, costarring opposite Alan Cumming as Sally Bowles in the production of Cabaret. Her repeated performances as the presenter of Saturday Night Live have also garnered her recognition.
In the popular musical La La Land, which costarred Ryan Gosling, Stone played an ambitious actress for which she won her first Golden Globe in 2016. With its seven Golden Globes, the movie became the most successful film in the history of the awards show.
In her acceptance speech, Stone stated, “This is a film for dreamers, and I think that hope and creativity are two of the most important things in the world and that’s what this movie is about.” A few months later, Stone won the coveted Best Actress Oscar, with La La Land being nominated for a record-breaking 14 Academy Awards.
2017- Recent Years
In keeping with her string of critically praised roles, Stone put on her tennis shoes to play tennis legend Billie Jean King in the 2017 film Battle of the Sexes, which recounts King’s 1973 matchup with former men’s champion Bobby Riggs. Both Stone and Carell—as Riggs—were nominated for Golden Globes.
Later, the actress co-starred in the television series Maniac. Maniac, which was based on a Norwegian TV series, had Stone and Hill as two finalists who were chosen to go through a drug study, which had some bizarre outcomes. In 2019’s Zombieland: Double Tap, she also made a return trip to a well-known post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Stone returned to the big screen in 2021, this time as the ruthless Disney villain Cruella de Vil in the live-action film Cruella, which is her origin story.
In the 2019 movie The Favourite, which is about three cousins fighting for Queen Anne’s attention in the early 18th century, Stone collaborated with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos. The dark comedy received high marks from critics and was shortlisted for ten Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Olivia Colman and Best Supporting Actress for Stone and Rachel Weisz. The two collaborated once more on the fantasy picture Poor Things, which was directed by Lanthimos and starred Stone as Bella Baxter.
Personal Life
Prior to their breakup in 2015, Stone dated her co-star in Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, for about four years. Later, when appearing as a guest presenter on Saturday Night Live in December 2016, Stone got to know writer and director Dave McCary. Months after they were first seen together, a source told People in October 2017 that the two were in a romantic relationship.
The pair got married in 2020 after announcing their engagement in December 2019. The actress gave birth to Louise Jean McCary on March 13, 2021, as stated on her birth certificate. She was first seen sporting a noticeable bump in January of the same year. They gave their kid the name Jean Louise in honour of Stone’s grandmother.
Both Stone and McCary have a reputation for keeping their romantic life secret, and Stone doesn’t use social media. Stone has expressed her desire to lead a regular life and her detest of being the focus of photographers outside her home. She has acknowledged her love for her line of work and mentioned Diane Keaton as an inspiration.
Stone claimed to have found that she had asthma after experiencing respiratory problems while filming Easy A. In 2008, her mother’s triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis was confirmed, and she recovered. Stone and her mother commemorated the occasion by getting tattoos of Paul McCartney’s design of birds’ feet—a nod to their mutual love of The Beatles song “Blackbird.”
