Who is Emma Stone?

 Emma Stone

Emily Jean Emma Stone born November 6, 1988 is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2017 she was the world's highest paid actress and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Born and raised in Scottsdale Arizona Stone began acting as a child in a theater production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. As a teenager she relocated to Los Angeles and made her television debut in In Search of the New Partridge Family 2004 a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. After small television roles, she appeared in a series of well received teen comedy films  such as Superbad 2007. Zombieland 2009 and Easy A 2010. The last of these was Stone's first leading role earning her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Following this breakthrough she had supporting roles in the romantic comedy Crazy Stupid Love 2011 and the period drama The Help 2011 and gained wider recognition as Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider Man and its 2014 sequel.

In 2014 Stone played a recovering drug addict in the black comedy Birdman which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and made her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in a revival of the musical Cabaret. For playing an aspiring actress in the romantic musical La La Land 2016. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received a third Academy Award nomination for portraying Abigail Masham in the historical comedy-drama The Favourite 2018. After a leading role in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries Maniac 2018. She reduced her workload starring in the sequel Zombieland Double Tap 2019 and the crime comedy Cruella 2021. Stone is married to comedian and writer Dave McCary, with whom she has a daughter.

Early life and education

Emily Jean Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale Arizona to Jeffrey Charles Stone the founder and CEO of a general contracting company and Krista Jean Stone née Yeager. A homemaker.She lived on the grounds of the Camelback Inn resort from ages twelve to fifteen. She has a younger brother, Spencer. Her paternal grandfather, Conrad Ostberg Sten, was from a Swedish family that anglicized their surname to Stone when they immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island. She also has German, English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry.

Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, where Stone appeared in sixteen productions

As an infant, Stone had baby colic and cried frequently she consequently developed nodules and calluses on her vocal cords while she was a child. She has described herself as having been loud and bossy while growing up.Stone was educated at Sequoya Elementary School and attended Cocopah Middle School for the sixth grade. Although she did not like school she has stated that her controlling nature meant that " made sure I got all A's.Stone suffered panic attacks and anxiety as a child which she says caused a decline in her social skills. She underwent therapy but claims it was her participation in local theater plays that helped cure the attacks; she recalled:

The first time I had a panic attack I was sitting in my friend's house and I thought the house was burning down. I called my mom and she brought me home and for the next three years it just would not stop. I would go to the nurse at lunch most days and just wring my hands. I would ask my mom to tell me exactly how the day was going to be, then ask again 30 seconds later. I just needed to know that no one was going to die and nothing was going to change.

Stone wanted to act since age four she wanted a career in sketch comedy initially. But shifted her focus toward musical theater and took vocal lessons for several years. Her acting debut at age eleven came in a stage production of The Wind in the Willows, playing the part of Otter.[16] Stone was homeschooled for two years during which time she appeared in sixteen productions at Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre including The Princess and the Pea Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and performed with the theater's improvisational comedy troupe. Around this time she traveled to Los Angeles and auditioned unsuccessfully for a role on Nickelodeon's All That.Her parents later sent her for private acting lessons with a local acting coach,who had worked at the William Morris Agency in the 1970.

Stone attended Xavier College Preparatory an all-girl Catholic high school as a freshman. But dropped out after one semester to become an actress. She prepared a PowerPoint presentation for her parents titled Project Hollywood featuring Madonna's 2003 song Hollywood to convince them to let her move to California to pursue an acting career.In January 2004 she moved with her mother to an apartment in Los Angeles. She recalled, I went up for every single show on the Disney Channel and auditioned to play the daughter on every single sitcom, adding, I ended up getting none. Between auditions for roles she enrolled in online highschool classes, and worked part time at a dog treat bakery.

Career

Stone made her television debut as Laurie Partridge on the VH1 talent competition reality show In Search of the New Partridge Family 2004. The resulting show retitled The New Partridge Family 2004 remained an unsold pilot. She followed this with a guest appearance in Louis C.K.'s HBO series Lucky Louie. She auditioned to star as Claire Bennet in the NBC science fiction drama Heroes 2007 but was unsuccessful and later called this her rock bottom experience. In April 2007 she played Violet Trimble in the Fox action drama Drive. But the show was canceled after seven episodes.

Stone made her feature film debut in Greg Mottola's comedy Superbad 2007 co starring Michael Cera and Jonah Hill. The film tells the story of two high school students who go through a series of comic misadventures after they plan to buy alcohol for a party. To play the role of Hill's romantic interest, she dyed her hair red.A reviewer for The Hollywood Reporter found her to be appealing. But felt that her role was poorly written. Stone has described the experience of acting in her first film as amazing ...[but very different than other experiences I've had since then. The film was a commercial success and earned her the Young Hollywood Award for Exciting New Face.

The following year Stone starred in the comedy The Rocker 2008 playing Amelia Stone, the straight face bass guitarist in a band she learned to play the bass for the role. The actress, who describes herself as a big smiler and laugher admitted that she found it difficult playing a character whose personality traits were so different from her own. The film and her performance received negative reviews from critics and was a commercial failure. Her next release the romantic comedy The House Bunny performed better at the box office, becoming a moderate commercial success. The film saw her play the president of a sorority, and perform a cover version of the Waitresses' 1982 song I Know What Boys Like. Reviews for the film were generally negative. But Stone was praised for her supporting role with TV Guide's Ken Fox stating she "is well on her way to becoming a star".