Date of
Birth: 6 November 1988 , Scottsdale , Arizona , USA
Birthnames:
Emily Jean Stone
Height: 5' 6"
(1.68 m)
Emma Stone
was born in Scottsdale , Arizona , to Krista (Yeager), a homemaker,
and Jeffrey Stone, a constricting company founder and CEO. Stone began drama as
a child as a member of the Valley childhood Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, where
she made her phase debut in a production of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in
the Willows". She appeared in many more productions through her near the
beginning teens until, at the age of 15, she decided that she wanted to create
acting her career.
The
official story is that she made a PowerPoint appearance, backed by Madonna's "Hollywood"
and itself free "Project Hollywood", in an effort to persuade her parents
to allow her to drop out of school and move to Los Angeles. The pitch was
winning and she and her mother moved to LA with her schooling completed at home
while she spent her days auditioning.
She had her
TV breakthrough when she won the part of Laurie Partridge in the VH1 talent/reality
show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004) which led to a number of small TV
roles in the following years.
Her movie
debut was as Jules in Superbad (2007) and, after a string of successful
performance, her leading role as Olive in Easy A (2010) recognized her as a
star.