Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6,1988 and is an American actress.
71 Facts About Emma Stone
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Emma Stone is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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The last of these was Emma Stone's first leading role, earning her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
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In 2014, Emma 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.
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Emma Stone received a third Academy Award nomination for portraying Abigail Masham in the historical comedy-drama The Favourite.
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Emma Stone is married to comedian and writer Dave McCary, with whom she has a daughter.
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Emma Stone lived on the grounds of the Camelback Inn resort from ages twelve to fifteen.
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Emma Stone has described herself as having been "loud" and "bossy" while growing up.
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Emma Stone was educated at Sequoya Elementary School and attended Cocopah Middle School for the sixth grade.
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Emma Stone underwent therapy but claims it was her participation in local theater plays that helped cure the attacks; she recalled:.
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Emma 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.
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Emma Stone's acting debut, at age eleven, came in a stage production of The Wind in the Willows, playing the part of Otter.
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Emma Stone prepared a PowerPoint presentation for her parents titled "Project Hollywood" to convince them to let her move to California to pursue an acting career.
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Emma Stone made her television debut as Laurie Partridge on the VH1 talent competition reality show In Search of the New Partridge Family.
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Emma Stone auditioned to star as Claire Bennet in the NBC science fiction drama Heroes but was unsuccessful and later called this her "rock bottom" experience.
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Emma Stone made her feature film debut in Greg Mottola's comedy Superbad, co-starring Michael Cera and Jonah Hill.
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Reviews for the film were generally negative, but Emma Stone was praised for her supporting role, with TV Guides Ken Fox stating she "is well on her way to becoming a star".
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Emma Stone voiced an Australian Shepherd in Marmaduke, a comedy from director Tom Dey, which is based on Brad Anderson's long-running comic strip of the same name.
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Emma Stone's breakthrough came the same year with a starring role in Easy A, a teen comedy directed by Will Gluck.
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Emma Stone read the script before the project was optioned for production, and pursued it with her manager while production details were being finalized.
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Emma Stone found the script "so different and unique from anything I'd read before", saying that it was "funny and sweet".
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When Emma Stone discovered that the film had begun production, she met with Gluck, expressing her enthusiasm for the project.
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The film received positive critical reviews, and Emma Stone's performance was considered its prime asset.
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Emma Stone was nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, and won the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance.
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In October 2010, Emma Stone hosted an episode of NBC's late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live; her appearances included a sketch playing off her resemblance to Lindsay Lohan.
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Emma Stone described it as "the greatest week of my life".
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Emma Stone hosted it again in 2011, appeared in an episode in 2014, and in its 40th anniversary special in 2015.
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Emma Stone followed this with a supporting role in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love alongside Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Julianne Moore.
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Emma Stone met with Taylor to express a desire to work on the film.
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Emma Stone turned down a role in the action comedy 21 Jump Street after signing on to Marc Webb's 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man series.
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Emma Stone portrayed Gwen Stacy, the love interest of the titular superhero.
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Emma Stone returned to her natural blonde hair color for the role, having dyed it red previously.
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Entertainment Weeklys Lisa Schwarzbaum found Emma Stone to be "irresistible", and Ian Freer of Empire was particularly impressed with Emma Stone's and Garfield's performances.
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Later that year, Emma Stone voiced a role in the crime-based video game Sleeping Dogs, which earned her a Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance by a Human Female.
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Emma Stone began 2013 with a voice role in the DreamWorks Animation film The Croods, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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Emma Stone next starred alongside Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad, a crime thriller set in Los Angeles during the 1940s.
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Scott of The New York Times dismissed the film as "a hectic jumble of fedoras and zoot suits", but praised Emma Stone's pairing with Gosling.
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Emma Stone expressed a desire to work with Gosling on more projects.
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In 2014, Emma Stone reprised the role of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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Later that year, Emma Stone took on a role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight, a modest commercial success.
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From November 2014 to February 2015, Emma Stone starred in a revival of the Broadway musical Cabaret as Sally Bowles, taking over the role from Michelle Williams.
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The former was controversial for whitewashing the cast, as Emma Stone's character was meant to be of Asian, Hawaiian, and Swedish descent.
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Emma Stone later regretted taking part in the project, acknowledging whitewashing as a widespread problem in Hollywood.
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Emma Stone appeared in the music video for Win Butler's single "Anna".
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Emma Stone borrowed several real-life experiences for her character, and in preparation, watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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In preparation, Emma Stone met with King, watched old footage and interviews of her, worked with a dialect coach to speak in King's accent, and drank high-calorie protein shakes to gain 15 pounds.
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Emma Stone received her fourth Golden Globe nomination for it, and attended the ceremony with King.
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Emma Stone found it challenging being an American among an all-British cast, and struggled with mastering her character's accent.
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Emma Stone then executive-produced and starred in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries Maniac, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
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Emma Stone narrated the Netflix documentary series The Mind, Explained and reprised the voice role of Eep in The Croods: A New Age, the sequel to 2013's The Croods.
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In 2021, Emma Stone played Cruella de Vil in Craig Gillespie's crime comedy Cruella, a Disney live-action based on the 1961 animation One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
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Justin Chang of Los Angeles Times wrote that despite the film's flawed screenplay, Emma Stone was "wholly committed, glammed-to-the-nines"; Chang favorably compared it with her performance in The Favourite, adding that she "nailed every nuance as another lowly young woman turned ambitious schemer".
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Emma Stone will collaborate with Yorgos Lanthimos on three more projects.
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Emma Stone is known for starring both in high-profile, mainstream productions and in low-budget independent films.
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Biographer Karen Hollinger wrote that at the beginning of her career, Emma Stone was often labeled a "star ingenue", a perceived limitation she escaped despite not being a classically trained actress.
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Emma Stone was further praised as a performer who "eschew[ed] glamour and the trappings of the 'starlet" and established a career through "talent, diligent work, and often surprising, unconventional characterizations".
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In 2008, Emma Stone topped Saturday Night Magazines Top 20 Rising Stars Under 30 and was included in a similar list compiled by Moviefone.
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Emma Stone appeared in the 2013 Celebrity 100 list, a compilation of the 100 most powerful people in the world, as selected annually by Forbes.
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Emma Stone has been described as a style icon, with her hair, eyes, and husky voice listed as her trademark features.
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Emma Stone was named the best-dressed woman of 2012 by Vogue and was included on similar listings by Glamour in 2013 and 2015, and People in 2014.
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Emma Stone moved from Los Angeles to Greenwich Village, New York, in 2009.
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Concerned with living a "normal" life, Emma Stone has said she finds little value in media attention.
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Emma Stone has expressed her fondness for her profession, and has cited Diane Keaton as an acting influence, calling her "one of the most covered-up actresses of all time".
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Emma Stone has named Marion Cotillard as one of her inspirations.
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Emma Stone dated her Paper Man co-star Kieran Culkin for two years, before starting to date her The Amazing Spider-Man co-star Andrew Garfield in 2011.
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In 2017, Emma Stone began a relationship with Saturday Night Live segment director Dave McCary.
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Emma Stone appeared in a Revlon campaign that promoted breast cancer awareness.
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In 2011, Emma Stone featured in a collaborative video between Star Wars and Stand Up to Cancer, which aimed to raise funds for cancer research.
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Emma Stone attended the 2014 Earth Hour, a worldwide movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Emma Stone has been nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Birdman and The Favourite, and Best Actress for La La Land; and four British Academy Film Awards: BAFTA Rising Star Award, Best Supporting Actress for Birdman and The Favourite, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for La La Land.
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Emma Stone won both her nominations for La La Land.