Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone, also called Emma was born in Scottsdale, Arizona on November 6, 1988 to Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), who is a homemaker and Jeffrey Charles Stone (CEO of the company that founded the contracting business and chief executive officer). She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone started acting in her youth as an Valley Youth Theatre member in Phoenix, Arizona. She first appeared on stage in the play of Kenneth Grahame "The Wind in the Willows." In her teens, Stone appeared in many other productions until she made acting her career. Officially, she designed an PowerPoint presentation that was backed by Madonna's "Hollywood" and titled "Project Hollywood", to convince her parents that she should leave school and move to Los Angeles. The presentation was successful, and she and her mother relocated to LA with her schooling completed at home, while she spent the day auditioning. She made her TV breakthrough when she won the part of Laurie Partridge in the VH1 reality show based on a talent show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004) that was followed by a string of smaller TV parts in the subsequent years. Her film debut was as Jules in Superbad (2007) and, after a string of success, her main role as Olive in Easy A (2010) established her as a rising star. Her school was Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. While she's referred to as an redhead, her true hair shade is blonde. It was Judd Apatow who suggested she switch her hair color to Superbad (2007) and she liked it so much that she decided to keep it. She persuaded her parents to let her move to Hollywood when she turned fifteen by creating the PowerPoint presentation aptly titled, Project Hollywood. Her first experience in acting at 11 years of age at the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, where she played in over 16 stage productions as well as acting in the comedy improv troupe. Caylee Cowan was also an actor at Valley Youth Theatre.