Emma Stone

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on the 6th of November in 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a founder of a contracting firm and CEO. She is of Swedish and British Isles origins. Stone started acting as a child in Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre. There she staged her first performance in "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. In her teens Stone was an active participant of numerous productions until she made the choice to make acting her profession. She created an PowerPoint presentation, 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 by the parents, she and her mother moved to LA. She continued her education at home, while 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. The show led to many small TV roles in the years following. After a number of performances she was offered the chance to portray the character of Jules in Superbad (2007). Her success was as Olive was a highlight of her role in Easy A (2010) followed by several more roles. Her school was Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. While she's referred to as a redhead, her natural hair color is blonde. It was Judd Apatow who suggested she change her hair color to Superbad (2007) and she was so pleased with it that she chose to keep the color. At the age of 15, she persuaded her parents she could go to Hollywood. She achieved this by creating an PowerPoint presentation titled Project Hollywood. She began acting at the age of 11 years old, at Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre. Here, she starred on over 16 stages, and performed in the comedy improv troupe of the theatre. Caylee Cowan was also a part of the Valley Youth Theatre.