Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone, also called Emma was born in Scottsdale, Arizona on November 6, 1988. She is the daughter of Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), who is a homemaker, and Jeffrey Charles Stone (CEO of a firm that contracts and was its founder and chief executive officer). She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began her acting career as a child as a part of the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, where she made her stage debut in an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows". Stone appeared in numerous other productions throughout her teens. At the age of fifteen, she decided to pursue a career in acting. She created an PowerPoint presentation, supported by Madonna's "Hollywood" and titled "Project Hollywood", to convince her parents that she should quit school and move to Los Angeles. After the presentation was accepted she and her mom moved to LA. She continued to study at home while auditioning. She made her TV debut in 2004, when she was cast in the role of Laurie Partridge on the VH1 talent/reality program In Search of the Partridge Family. The show brought her a host of minor TV roles in the years that followed. Her film 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 rising star. In Phoenix, Arizona, she was a student at Xavier College Preparatory. While she's referred to as redhead, her actual hair shade is blonde. Judd Apatow suggested that she change her hair color to be more in line with Superbad (2007). She liked it so much that she chose to keep her hair. When she was 15years old, she convinced her parents to let her to go to Hollywood by presenting a PowerPoint presentation that was appropriately named Project Hollywood. She began her career in acting at the age of 11 years old. age at the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, where she played in over 16 stage productions and also performing the theatre's comedy improv troupe. Caylee Cowan was also a part of the Valley Youth Theatre.