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Emma Stone
Stone at the Zombieland world premiere at FantasticFest, September 25, 2009
Born	Emily Jean Stone November 6, 1988 (1988-11-06) (age 21) Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Other name(s)	Riley Stone
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. Born and raised in Scottsdale, Stone relocated to Los Angeles at the age of 15. She broke into television and landed a starring role in the short-lived series Drive in 2007. She made her feature film debut that year in the comedy Superbad playing Jules. She next appeared in the comedies The Rocker (2008), The House Bunny (2008), Paper Man (2009), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). She starred in the box office hit horror/comedy Zombieland (2009), alongside Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin, and Jesse Eisenberg. She also will be starring in Easy A (2010) and voicing a character in Marmaduke (2010).

Early life

Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Jeff and Krista Stone, and has a younger brother, Spencer.¹ Stone was a member of the Valley Youth Theatre while growing up, a regional theater in Phoenix, Arizona where she appeared in her first stage production, The Wind in the Willows, at the age of 11.¹ Stone attended Sequoya Elementary School and then Cocopah Middle School for sixth grade. She was home schooled for two years, at which time she appeared in 16 productions at Valley Youth Theatre, including: A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail, The Princess and the Pea, Cinderella, The Wiz, Titanic, Honk!, The Little Mermaid, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Alice in Wonderland, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,¹² and performed with the theater's improv comedy troupe.³

Stone attended Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girl Catholic high school, as a freshman for one semester.⁴ She gave a PowerPoint presentation to her parents, set to the Madonna song "Hollywood", to convince them to let her move to California for an acting career.⁵⁶ She dropped out of high school and moved with her mother to Los Angeles in January 2004, at the age of fifteen.⁷

Career

Stone at the Fantastic Fest premiere of the film Zombieland in Austin, Texas in September 2009

Stone launched a career in television after winning the role of Laurie Partridge on In Search of the New Partridge Family (2004), a VH1 talent competition reality show.⁸ The resulting show, The New Partridge Family (2005), only produced a pilot episode. Stone next had appearances in the television series Medium, Malcolm in the Middle and Lucky Louie. In 2007, she had a regular role on the Fox drama Drive, playing Violet Trimble, until the series was cancelled.

Stone made her feature film debut in the teen comedy Superbad in 2007, playing Jules, the love interest of lead character Seth (Jonah Hill). In 2008, she appeared in the comedy The Rocker, with Rainn Wilson.⁹ Stone played Amelia, the bassist in a band featuring singer Teddy Geiger. Stone learned to play bass for the role.¹⁰ Also that year, Stone appeared in The House Bunny, starring Anna Faris, alongside Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis and Colin Hanks.¹¹ Stone played the president of a sorority and sang on a single from the film, "I Know What Boys Like", a cover version of the 1982 song by The Waitresses.¹²

In 2009, Stone appeared in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a romantic comedy directed by Mark Waters, the director of Mean Girls (2004), and starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.¹³ Stone played "The Ghost of Girlfriends Past", a takeoff of the Ghost of Christmas Past from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. She also stars in the horror/comedy Zombieland, along with Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg. The project, her third comedy for Columbia Pictures, began shooting in Atlanta in February 2009.¹⁴ Stone plays Wichita, a survivor/con artist from Wichita, Kansas, traveling across the U.S. with her younger sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).¹⁵

Stone will star in the comedy Paper Man, starring Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds and Lisa Kudrow, and directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney.¹⁶ Stone began filming on Veterans Day, November 11, 2008, in Montauk, New York, using well-known local locations.¹⁷ Stone will star as a high school student in Easy A with Amanda Bynes, a comedy directed by Will Gluck. Stone's character divides the strictly moral students and teachers against the liberals in her school after a false rumor circulates that she's sexually promiscuous.¹⁸ The script contrasts the novel The Scarlet Letter and its heroine, Hester Prynne, to the life of the protagonist in the film.¹⁹ Stone also has a voice role in an upcoming film adaptation of the comic strip Marmaduke.²⁰

Stone has stated that she would eventually like to venture into film production, producing her own films, and would like to appear on Saturday Night Live.¹¹

Personal life

Stone was living on her own in Los Angeles in 2007.¹ She moved to Greenwich Village, New York City in 2009.⁶ She has stated that she is skilled in HTML and has web design as a hobby.⁵ Stone was romantically linked to singer-songwriter and actor Teddy Geiger, her co-star in The Rocker, at the time the film was being promoted in July 2008.²¹ Although known as a redhead, Stone was a brunette when film producer Judd Apatow had her change the color for her role in Superbad.³ She is naturally a blonde.⁴

Filmography

Awards

Rankings

Discography

• Katharine McPhee - "I Know What Boys Like" (2008), RCA - iTunes Store single with Emma Stone and Rumer Willis, a cover version of the 1982 single by The Waitresses

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Emma Stone

• Emma Stone at the Internet Movie Database