Emma Stone Early Life, Age, Facts, Personal Life, Relationships, Career, Family, Wiki, Age, Producing, Filmography

Also Known As: Emily Jean Emma Stone

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Age: 29 Years

Born In: Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Famous As: Actress

Height: 1.68 M

Father: Jeff Stone

Mother: Krista Stone

Siblings: Spencer Stone

City, States, Provinces & Districts: Arizona

Net Worth: $18 Million As Of Nov 6, 2015

Early life

Emily Jean Stone was born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeffrey Charles Stone, the founder and CEO of a general-contracting company. Stone lived on the grounds of the Camelback Inn resort from the age of 12 to 15. 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.

As an infant, Stone had baby colic and cried frequently; she consequently developed nodulesand calluses on her vocal cords while she was a child. Stone has described herself as having been "loud" and "bossy" while growing up. She 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 "I made sure I got all As". Stone suffered panic attacks as a child, which she says caused a decline in her social skills. She underwent therapy but states that it was her participation in local theater plays that helped cure the attacks.


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, The Wall Street Journal, June 2015

Stone started acting at age four; she wanted a career in sketch comedy initially, but shifted her focus toward musical theater, and took voice lessons for several years.Her acting debut, at the age of 11, came in a stage production of The Wind in the Willows, playing the part of Otter. The actress 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 in 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 1970s.

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 PowerPointpresentation 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 recalls: "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 high-school classes, and worked part-time at a dog-treat bakery.

Career

Early career (2004–2008)

When Stone registered for the Screen Actors Guild, the name "Emily Stone" was already taken. "Riley Stone" was the stage name she chose initially, but after guest-starring in the NBCdrama Medium and the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, she decided that she was more comfortable with "Emma". She made her television debut as Laurie Partridge on the VH1talent 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 Reporterfound her "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", has admitted that she found it difficult portraying 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 sees her play the president of a sorority, and perform a cover versionof the Waitresses' 1982 song "I Know What Boys Like". Reviews for the film were generally negative,though she was praised for her supporting role, and TV Guide'sKen Fox wrote of Stone that: "She's positively incandescent, lighting up a movie that would be pretty dim without her."

Personal life

Stone moved from Los Angeles to Greenwich Village, New York City, in 2009. In 2016, she moved back to Los Angeles. Despite frequent media coverage, the actress has refused to speak about her private life. Concerned with living a "normal" life, she has said that she finds little value in media attention. She has expressed her fondness for her profession, and has cited actress Diane Keaton as an influence, who is (in Stone's words) "one of the most covered-up actresses of all time". She has also named actress and singer-songwriter Marion Cotillard as one of her inspirations.

Stone and director Damien Chazellefilming La La Land (2016). Her performance in the film earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Stone has a close relationship with her family. She says: "I am blessed with a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense." During the production of The Amazing Spider-Man in 2010, Stone dated co-star Andrew Garfield. The nature of their relationship was well-documented by the media, with frequent speculation about an impending engagement or a break-up. The couple refused to talk about it publicly, though they made several appearances together. In 2015, they were reported to have broken up.

According to Stone, she suffers from asthma, which she discovered after having difficulty breathing while filming Easy A. Her mother was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancerand was cured in 2008. Stone and her mother celebrated by getting tattoos of birds' feet, designed by Paul McCartney, a reference to the Beatles' "Blackbird", which is a song she and her mother love. She appeared in a Revlon campaign that promoted breast cancer awareness. In 2011, the actress featured in a collaborative video between Star Wars and Stand Up to Cancer, which aimed to raise funds for cancer research. Two years later, she attended an event by Gilda's Club, an organization working for a similar purpose. From 2012 to 2014, she hosted the Entertainment Industry Foundation's Revlon Run/Walk, which helps fight women's cancer.

Stone, alongside three other celebrities, was present at the 2012 Nickelodeon HALO Awards, a television special that profiled five teenagers who are "Helping And Leading Others" (HALO). In 2014, on an occasion in New York, Stone and Garfield encouraged paparazzi to visit websites, which spread awareness of causes, such as autism. She attended the 2014 Earth Hour, a worldwide movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature. In 2015, she was part of a fundraising event in support of the Motion Picture & Television Fund, which helps people in the television and film industry with limited or no resources. In 2018, she collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the Time's Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination.

Film

Key

Denotes productions that have not yet been released

Title	Year	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
Superbad	2007	Jules	Greg Mottola
The Rocker	2008	Amelia	Peter Cattaneo
The House Bunny	2008	Natalie	Fred Wolf
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	2009	Allison Vandermeersh	Mark Waters
Paper Man	2009	Abby	Kieran Mulroney Michele Mulroney
Zombieland	2009	Wichita / Krista	Ruben Fleischer
Marmaduke	2010	Mazie (voice)	Tom Dey
Easy A	2010	Olive Penderghast	Will Gluck
Friends with Benefits	2011	Kayla	Will Gluck
Crazy, Stupid, Love	2011	Hannah Weaver	Glenn Ficarra John Requa
The Help	2011	Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan	Tate Taylor
The Amazing Spider-Man	2012	Gwen Stacy	Marc Webb
Gangster Squad	2013	Grace Faraday	Ruben Fleischer
Movie 43	2013	Veronica	Griffin Dunne	Segment: "Veronica"
The Croods	2013	Eep Crood (voice)	Kirk DeMicco Chris Sanders
The Amazing Spider-Man 2	2014	Gwen Stacy	Marc Webb
Magic in the Moonlight	2014	Sophie Baker	Woody Allen
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	2014	Sam Thomson	Alejandro González Iñárritu
Aloha	2015	Allison Ng	Cameron Crowe
Irrational Man	2015	Jill Pollard	Woody Allen
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	2016	Claudia Cantrell	Akiva Schaffer Jorma Taccone	Uncredited cameo
La La Land	2016	Mia Dolan	Damien Chazelle
Battle of the Sexes	2017	Billie Jean King	Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris
The Favourite	2018	Abigail Masham	Yorgos Lanthimos	In post-production

Television

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
The New Partridge Family	2004	Laurie Partridge	Pilot
Medium	2005	Cynthia McCallister	Episode: "Sweet Dreams" (credited as Riley Stone)
Malcolm in the Middle	2005	Diane	Episode: "Lois Strikes Back" (credited as Riley Stone)
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	2006	Ivana Tipton (voice)	Episode: "Crushed"
Lucky Louie	2006	Shannon	Episode: "Get Out"
Drive	2007	Violet Trimble	7 episodes
Saturday Night Live	2010, 2011, 2016	Herself (host)	3 episodes
Robot Chicken	2011	Various voices	2 episodes
30 Rock	2012	Herself	Episode: "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell"
iCarly	2012	Heather	Episode: "iFind Spencer Friends"
Saturday Night Live	2014	Gwen Stacy	Episode: "Andrew Garfield/Coldplay" (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special	2015	Roseanne Roseannadanna	Television special
Saturday Night Live	2015	Herself	Episode: "Matthew McConaughey/Adele" (uncredited)
Maya & Marty	2016	Herself	Episode: "Sean Hayes, Steve Martin, Kelly Ripa & Emma Stone"
Saturday Night Live	2017	Herself	Episode: "Ryan Gosling/Jay-Z" (uncredited)
Maniac	2018	Annie Landsberg	Also executive producer

Discography

Title	Year	Peak chart positions						Album
		AUT	BEL (Fl)	FRA	SPA	SWI	UK
"I Know What Boys Like"	2008	—	—	—	—	—	—	The House Bunny
"Knock On Wood"	2010	—	—	—	—	—	—	Easy A
"Turn Up the Beef"	2016	—	—	—	—	—	—	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
"Another Day of Sun" (with La La Land Cast)		—	—	18	21	—	—	La La Land: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Someone in the Crowd" (with Callie Hernandez, Sonoya Mizuno, and Jessica Rothe)		—	—	88	—	—	—
"A Lovely Night" (with Ryan Gosling)		—	—	75	—	—	—
"City of Stars" (with Ryan Gosling)		68	30	194	14	48	53
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)"		—	—	122	—	—	—
"City of Stars (Humming)" (Justin Hurwitz featuring Emma Stone)		—	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes a song that did not chart or was not released.

Music video

Title	Year	Performer(s)	Ref.
"Anna"	2015	Will Butler

Theater

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref.
Cabaret	2014–2015	Sally Bowles	Studio 54

Video game

Title	Year	Role	Ref.
Sleeping Dogs	2012	Amanda Cartwright