Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone was born to Krista Jean Stone and Jeffrey Charles Stone in Scottsdale, Arizona, on November 6, 1988. She is a homemaker. Jeffrey Charles Stone is the CEO and founder of the company that contracts for work, Stone Contracting. She has Swedish as well as British Isles origins. Stone began her stage career as a child as a participant in 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 an active participant of numerous productions until she made the decision to pursue a career in acting. The official story is that she developed a PowerPoint presentation that was backed by Madonna's "Hollywood" and later titled "Project Hollywood", in an effort to convince her parents to allow her to abandon school and move to Los Angeles. After the presentation was accepted she and her mom moved to LA. She continued her education at home while auditioning. Her TV breakthrough when she was awarded the part of Laurie Partridge in the VH1 show, a reality and talent show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004) that was followed by a string of smaller TV roles over the following years. After several successful performances, she was able to play the role of Jules in Superbad (2007). Her fame was as Olive in Easy A (2010) followed by many more roles. She attended Xavier College Preparatory, Phoenix, Arizona. Although she is known as a redhead, her true shade is blonde. Judd Apatow was the one who suggested she change her hair's shade to Superbad (2007). The film was so popular that she decided to keep her hair. When she was 15, she persuaded her parents that she could make the move to Hollywood. She made this happen by creating an PowerPoint presentation titled 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.