Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone, also known as Emma was born in Scottsdale, Arizona on November 6, 1988 to Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), who is a housewife, and Jeffrey Charles Stone (CEO of the company that founded the contracting business and chief executive officer). She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting when she was a young participant in the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, where she made her stage debut in an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows". Stone was a part of numerous productions in her early teens, and at the age of 15 she decided to make acting her career. According to the official account she presented an PowerPoint slide presentation that was supported by the Madonna's Hollywood and dubbed "Project Hollywood" in an attempt to convince her parents to allow her to drop out of school and relocate to Los Angeles. She and her mother made the pitch and moved to LA. The schooling she had taken was done at home, and she would spend the rest of her time auditioning. She made her TV debut in 2004, when she was chosen to play the character as Laurie Partridge on the VH1 reality show In Search of the Partridge Family. It was followed by a number of smaller TV roles in the years to follow. After a number of performances she was chosen to portray the character of Jules in Superbad (2007). Her success as Olive was a highlight of her role in Easy A (2010) followed by a string more roles. She attended Xavier College Preparatory, Phoenix, Arizona. Although she's a redhead, the hair color that is natural to her hair is blonde. It was Judd Apatow who suggested she change her hair color for Superbad (2007) and she liked it so much that she chose to keep it. At age 15, she persuaded her parents to allow her to move to Hollywood through an PowerPoint presentation appropriately titled Project Hollywood. When she was 11 years old she started acting in the Valley Youth Theatre, Phoenix, AZ. There, she appeared in 16 stage productions as well as in the comedy Improv troupe. Caylee Cowan was also an actor at the Valley Youth Theatre.