Emma Stone

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on the 6th of November 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), a homemaker , and Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She has Swedish and British Isles origins. Stone began her stage career when she was a young part of the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, where she made her stage debut in the production of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows". As she grew older, Stone appeared in many other productions until she decided to make acting her career. Officially, she created an PowerPoint presentation, which was backed by Madonna's "Hollywood" and titled "Project Hollywood", to convince her parents to let her go to school and relocate to Los Angeles. The pitch worked and she and her mother moved to LA with her schooling completed at home. There she would spend the day auditioning. Her TV debut came when she was chosen to play Laurie Partridge on the VH1 reality show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004). The show resulted in a number of small TV roles over the years. After a number of performances, she was able to play the role of Jules in Superbad (2007). Her stardom was as Olive was a highlight of her role in Easy A (2010) followed by a string more roles. In Phoenix, Arizona, she attended Xavier College Preparatory. Although she's a redhead her natural hair shade her hair is blonde. Judd Apatow suggested that she change her hair color in order to be more in line with Superbad (2007). She liked it so much that she decided to keep it. When she was 15years old, she convinced her parents to let her to go to Hollywood by creating the PowerPoint presentation that was appropriately titled Project Hollywood. She started acting at the age of 11 years old at Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre. Here, she starred on over 16 stages, and performed with the theatre's comedy improv group. Caylee Cowan also acted in the Valley Youth Theatre.