Emma Stone Biography

Emma Stone (November 6, 1988) actress and singer. She was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Her birth name is Emily Jean Stone. She is currently considered one of the best actresses of her generation. Her mother is Krista Jean Stone and her father Jeffrey Charles Stone, founder and CEO of a general contracting company. Emma had a comfortable life and full of complacency. Much of her adolescence lived at the Camelback Inn Resort. In her childhood she did not enjoy good health, but little by little she got better.

She studied at Sequoya Elementary School and then did high school at Cocopah Middle School, she did not like to study very much and also had problems socializing because she was suffering from panic attacks. Her mother took her to therapies and they suggested that in order to motivate the girl to socialize and open up to the world she would participate in plays, then her mother enrolled her in an acting course at the Valley Youth Theater. This helped her heal her attacks. The theater had become an essential part of her life, then she began to venture into musical theater, to improve her performance she took vocal lessons.

Her debut as an actress, at the age of 11, in the theater production The Wind in the Willows, giving life to Otter. After a while, Stone had to study at home because her acting commitments did not give her time to attend school. She appeared in sixteen productions at Phoenix’s Valley Youth Theater: Winnie the Pooh, The Princess, and the Pea, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Titanic and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She decided to travel to Los Angeles for the casting of the Nickelodeon All That series, but she did not succeed. Stone started taking acting classes with a member of the William Morris Agency.

In 2003, she convinced her parents to let her move to California to pursue her acting career. In 2004, she moved with her mother to an apartment in Los Angeles. She made several auditions to act in the shows on the Disney Channel but it did not go well. She began to study virtually and also worked in several restaurants and animal stores. Finally, she got a role in television in 2004, in the program The New Partridge Family. Subsequently, she won a role on the big screen playing Jules in the movie Superbad. The world of acting began to notice this young redhead with great charisma and sense of humor.

Her first leading role was in Easy A (2010), playing Olive Penderghast. This film was very popular and won 74 million dollars. She received very good reviews and a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Actress category – Comedy or musical. From that moment her career took off, she took part in several films and television productions such as Zombieland (2009), Friends with Benefits (2011), The Help (2011), Gangster Squad (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) ), The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro (2014) and Birdman (2014). For this last film by director Alejandro González Iñárritu, she was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Supporting Actress and another Golden Globe.

In The Amazing Spider-Man was established as one of the sex icons of Hollywood. The film raised around 750 million dollars, becoming the highest grossing of her career. Then she starred with Bradley Cooper Aloha, in the romantic comedy directed by Cameron Crowe for Columbia Pictures that was released in 2015. Then we saw her as a co-star in the mystery drama Irrational Man (2015) with Joaquin Phoenix. It was released under the Sony Pictures Classics logo. The young actress had important positions at the Roundabout Theater Company to perform on Broadway in the revival of the musical Cabaret. She acted in the popular film La Laland with Ryan Gosling. Thanks to her performance as Mia, she won the Oscar for best actress in the 89th edition.

Her unusual beauty allowed that she was called to appear in the covers of magazines like Vanity Fair, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamor, and Maxim among others. In 2011, Men’s Health magazine ranked second as the second sexiest woman in the world and ranked number 7 of the Maxim Hot 100 in 2012. From her private life we ​​know she started dating Andrew Garfield, who she met while filming the saga of The Amazing Spider-Man in 2011.

But the relationship ended after four years, in August 2015. Her work has earned her several awards: an Oscar, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Golden Globe, for best actress, for her performance in the film La La Land. In sum, she has won the Volpi Cup. Right now, is in the recording of Maniac, a satirical series of Norwegian origin, where Emma Stone and Jonah Hill are the protagonists. The launch of this series will be by Netflix but the exact date is not yet known.