Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone was born to Krista Jean Stone and Jeffrey Charles Stone in Scottsdale, Arizona, on November 6, 1988. She is a homemaker. Jeffrey Charles Stone is the CEO and founder of the contracting company Stone Contracting. She is of Swedish and British Isles origins. Stone began her stage career in her early years as a part 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". As she grew older, Stone participated in various other productions until she decided to make acting her career. According to the official account, she created an PowerPoint presentation, which was backed by Madonna's "Hollywood" and also titled "Project Hollywood", in an effort to convince her parents to allow her to abandon school and move to Los Angeles. After the presentation was accepted she and her mother moved to LA. She continued to study at home, while auditioning. Her TV debut in 2004 when she was given the role of Laurie Partridge on the VH1 talent/reality show In Search of the Partridge Family. This resulted in a variety of small TV parts in the years that followed. Her film debut was as Jules in Superbad (2007) and, after a string of great performances, her lead role as Olive in Easy A (2010) established her as a leading actress. She was a student at Xavier College Preparatory, Phoenix, Arizona. Although she's known as a redhead, her natural hair shade is blonde. Judd Apatow was the one who suggested she change her natural hair color to match Superbad (2007). The film was so well received that she decided to keep. When she was 15, she persuaded her parents to let her to go to Hollywood by putting together the PowerPoint presentation that was appropriately named Project Hollywood. She got her start in acting at the age of 11 age in the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, where she played in over 16 performances on stage as well as performing in the theatre's comedy improv troupe. Caylee Cowan was also acted at the Valley Youth Theatre.