1. Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6,1988 and is an American actress and producer.
73 Facts About Emma Stone
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Emma Stone's accolades include two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Emma Stone received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a recovering drug addict in Birdman and Abigail Masham in The Favourite.
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Emma Stone won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her roles as an aspiring actress in the romantic musical La La Land and a resurrected suicide victim in Lanthimos' comic fantasy Poor Things.
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On Broadway, Emma Stone starred as Sally Bowles in a revival of the musical Cabaret.
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Emma Stone lived on the grounds of the Camelback Inn resort from ages 12 to 15.
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Emma Stone consequently developed nodules and calluses on her vocal cords while she was a child.
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Emma Stone has described herself as "loud" and "bossy" while growing up.
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Emma Stone was educated at Sequoya Elementary School and attended Cocopah Middle School for sixth grade.
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Emma Stone did not like school, though once said that her controlling nature meant that "I made sure I got all A's".
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Emma Stone underwent therapy but said it was her participation in local theater plays that helped cure the attacks, recalling:.
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Emma Stone wanted to act since age four; she wanted a career in sketch comedy initially, but shifted her focus to musical theater, and took vocal lessons for several years.
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Emma Stone's acting debut, at age 11, came in a stage production of The Wind in the Willows, playing 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 made her feature film debut in Greg Mottola's comedy Superbad, co-starring Michael Cera and Jonah Hill.
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The next year, Emma Stone starred in the comedy The Rocker as Amelia Emma Stone, the "straight face" bass guitarist in a band; she learned to play the bass for the role.
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Reviews were generally negative, but Emma Stone was praised, with TV Guides Ken Fox writing that 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 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", calling it "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 sketch comedy Saturday Night Live; her appearances included a sketch playing off her resemblance to Lindsay Lohan.
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Emma Stone hosted 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.
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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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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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Emma Stone received Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominations.
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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 Will 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 to be an American among an all-British cast, and struggled with mastering her character's accent.
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Emma Stone received her fifth Golden Globe nomination and third Oscar nomination for The Favourite, and additionally earned SAG nominations for both Maniac and The Favourite.
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That same year, Emma Stone appeared in Paul McCartney's music video for his song "Who Cares".
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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 produced the film, in which she starred as Bella, a young Victorian woman who is crudely resurrected after her suicide.
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Emma Stone played Whitney, an influencer who hosts an HGTV show with her husband.
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Emma Stone received two more Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Poor Things and The Curse, winning for the former.
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Times Daniel D'Addario stated in 2015 that Emma Stone "appears to have fairly limited options" and choosing roles in independent films by "less established directors would represent a substantive risk".
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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 dislikes receiving paparazzi attention outside her home.
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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 dated her Paper Man co-star Kieran Culkin for two years.
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Emma Stone met Saturday Night Live segment director Dave McCary on December 3,2016, while hosting the show.
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In March 2021, Emma Stone gave birth to their daughter named Louise Jean.
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In 2022, Emma Stone sold her house in Malibu, California for $4.425 million, and in 2024, she sold her Los Angeles home for $4 million.
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Emma Stone is a supporter of Planned Parenthood, and attended the 2017 Academy Awards wearing a Planned Parenthood pin on her dress.
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Emma Stone appeared in a Revlon campaign that promoted breast cancer awareness.
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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 recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following:.
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Emma Stone has been nominated for five 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 and Poor Things, winning for the last two.