Emma Stone

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6 in 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (nee Yeager), an experienced homemaker and Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone who was a founding partner of a company that contracts and CEO. She is of Swedish as well as British Isles origins. Stone began her acting career in her youth as a Valley Youth Theatre member in Phoenix, Arizona. She made her stage debut in Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows." Through her teens Stone performed in of many productions before she made the choice to pursue acting as a profession. The official story is that she put together a PowerPoint presentation, backed by Madonna's "Hollywood" and itself entitled "Project Hollywood", in attempts to persuade parents to let her leave school and move to Los Angeles. After the presentation was accepted, the couple moved to LA. She continued her education at home, and also auditioned. Her TV debut was when she was chosen to play Laurie Partridge on the VH1 reality show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004). This resulted in a number of small TV roles over the years. After several successful performances, she was able to portray the character of Jules in Superbad (2007). Her popularity as Olive was a highlight of her role in Easy A (2010) followed by a series of roles. In Phoenix, Arizona, she attended Xavier College Preparatory. Although she's a redhead the hair color that is natural to her is blonde. Judd Apatow was the one who suggested that she change her hair's color for Superbad (2007). The movie was so well received that she decided to keep it. She convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood when she turned fifteen by creating an PowerPoint presentation that was appropriately titled Project Hollywood. At 11 years old she began her acting career in the Valley Youth Theatre, Phoenix, AZ. There, she starred in sixteen stage productions, and also performed in the comedy Improv troupe. Caylee Cowan also performed at the Valley Youth Theatre.