Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone was born to Krista Jean Stone and Jeffrey Charles Stone in Scottsdale, Arizona, on November 6 in 1988. She is a homemaker. Jeffrey Charles Stone is the CEO and founder of the contracting firm, Stone Contracting. She is of Swedish, German and British Isles descent. Stone began her stage career when she was a young part of the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, where she made her stage debut in a production of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows". In her teens, Stone appeared in many other productions until she decided to make acting her career. According to the official story she presented a PowerPoint slide presentation that was sponsored by the Madonna's Hollywood and was dubbed "Project Hollywood" in an effort to persuade her parents to allow her to drop out of school and move to Los Angeles. After the pitch was accepted, the couple moved to LA. She continued her education at home, and also auditioned. She got her TV breakthrough when she was awarded the role of Laurie Partridge in the VH1 talent/reality show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004) which led to a number of smaller TV roles over the following years. After a string of success in the role, her appearance as Olive in Easy A (2010) was her first film role. In Phoenix, Arizona, she went to Xavier College Preparatory. While she's referred to as an redhead, her true hair shade is blonde. It was Judd Apatow who suggested she change her hair color for Superbad (2007) and she loved it so much that she chose to keep it. When she was 15 she persuaded her parents she could go to Hollywood. She achieved this by making a PowerPoint presentation entitled Project Hollywood. She started acting when she was 11 years old in Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre. Here she performed on more than 16 stages. She also took part in the theatre's comedy improv group. Caylee Cowan also performed at the Valley Youth Theatre.