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 , and Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a founder of a contracting firm and CEO. She is of Swedish and British Isles heritage. Stone began acting in her early years 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". In her teens Stone was part of many productions before she made the decision to pursue acting as a profession. According to the official report, she presented a PowerPoint slide show that was supported by the Madonna's Hollywood and was dubbed "Project Hollywood" in an attempt to convince her parents and let her to drop out of school and relocate to Los Angeles. After the presentation was accepted she and her mother moved to LA. She continued to study at home, and also auditioned. Her TV debut came when she was cast as Laurie Partridge on the VH1 reality show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004). The show led to a variety of minor TV parts over the years. After a string success acting roles, her character Olive in Easy A (2010) was her movie debut. She attended Xavier College Preparatory, Phoenix, Arizona. While she is a redhead, her natural hair color her hair is blonde. It was Judd Apatow who suggested she change her hair color in Superbad (2007) and she liked it so much that she decided to keep it. When she was 15, she persuaded her parents to allow her to move to Hollywood by creating an PowerPoint presentation that was appropriately titled Project Hollywood. She began acting at 11 years old, at Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre. Here she appeared on 16 stages. She also took part in the theatre's comedy improv group. Caylee Cowan also performed at the Valley Youth Theatre.