Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone, also called Emma was born in Scottsdale, Arizona on November 6, 1988. She is the daughter of Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), who is a homemaker and Jeffrey Charles Stone (CEO of a firm that contracts and was its founder and CEO). She is of Swedish as well as British Isles origins. Stone began her acting career when she was a kid in Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre. There she gave her first stage performance in "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. Stone appeared in numerous other productions during her early teens. At the age of fifteen, she made the decision to make acting her career. Officially, she designed a PowerPoint presentation, which was backed by Madonna's "Hollywood", and entitled "Project Hollywood", to convince her parents to let her leave school and move to Los Angeles. She and her mother made the pitch and made the move to LA. Her schooling was completed at home and she was able to spend her time performing auditions. Her TV debut came when she was chosen to play Laurie Partridge on the VH1 reality/talent show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004). The show was followed by a few minor TV performances over the course of the years. After a number of performances she was chosen to play Jules in Superbad (2007). Her stardom was as Olive in Easy A (2010) followed by many more roles. She was a student at Xavier College Preparatory, Phoenix, Arizona. While she is famous as a redhead, her true hair color is blonde. It was Judd Apatow who suggested she change her hair color in Superbad (2007) and she liked it so much that she chose to keep it. At the age of 15 she convinced her parents that she could make the move to Hollywood. She made this happen by creating an PowerPoint presentation entitled Project Hollywood. Her first experience in acting at the age of 11 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 also performed at the Valley Youth Theatre.