Emma Stone

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on the 6th of November in 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), the homemaker, and Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. Stone is of Swedish, German and British Isles descent. Stone began her acting career as a child as a member of 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". Through her teens, Stone was in a variety of other shows until she made acting her career. Informally, she developed a PowerPoint presentation, which was backed by Madonna's "Hollywood", and entitled "Project Hollywood", to convince her parents that she should leave school and relocate to Los Angeles. After the presentation was accepted, she and her mother relocated to LA. She continued to study at home and was able to audition. Her TV debut came when she was cast as Laurie Partridge on the VH1 reality show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004). The show was followed by a few minor TV roles over the years. Her debut film was Jules in Superbad (2007) and, after a string of great performances, her lead role in the film Olive in Easy A (2010) established her as a rising star. In Phoenix, Arizona, she went to Xavier College Preparatory. Although she's known as a redhead, her real hair color is blonde. Judd Apatow was the one who suggested that she change her natural hair color for Superbad (2007). The film was so well-received that she chose to keep her hair. She persuaded her parents to allow her to move to Hollywood when she reached the age of 15 by creating a PowerPoint presentation appropriately titled Project Hollywood. She began her career in acting at 11 years of age in the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, where she played in over 16 stage productions , as well as performing in the theatre's comedy improv troupe. Caylee Cowan was also an actor at the Valley Youth Theatre.