Emma Stone Biography

Full name: Emily Jean Stone

Birth date: 1988-11-06

Birth place: Scottsdale, Arizona

Height: 5'6"

Profession: Actress

Career Start: The New Partridge Family

Emma Stone Relationships:

Krista Stone - Mother

Jeff Stone - Father

Spencer Stone - Brother

Teddy Geiger - Ex-significant Other

Emma Stone Awards:

2011 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical - Nominee

2010 BAFTA Awards: Rising Star Award - Nominee

Emma Stone was born November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona. At a young age she became a member of the Valley Youth Theatre, where Jordin Sparks also performed. Emma was home schooled for grades seven and eight so she could appear in as many performances as possible. During this time she acted in over 16 different productions. In the second semester of her freshman year of high school, Emma convinced her parents to let her move to Los Angeles to pursue acting. When she was only 15 her mother and her moved into an apartment in LA and she began to attend auditions.

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. 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. She also auditioned for Heroes, and overheard in the casting room "On a scale of 1 to 10, you are an 11" — the casting directors were referring to Hayden Panettiere, who was cast as Claire Bennet instead. Stone called this experience "rock bottom."

Stone made her feature film debut in the 2007 teen comedy Superbad, playing Jules, the love interest of lead character Seth (Jonah Hill). In 2008, she appeared in the comedy The Rocker, with Rainn Wilson. Stone played Amelia, the bass guitarist in a band featuring singer Teddy Geiger. Stone learned to play bass for the role. Also that year, Stone appeared in The House Bunny, starring Anna Faris, alongside Katharine McPhee, Kat Dennings, Rumer Willis, and Colin Hanks. 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.

In 2009, Stone appeared in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a romantic comedy directed by Mark Waters, the director of Mean Girls, starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. Stone played "The Ghost of Girlfriends Past," a takeoff of the Ghost of Christmas Past from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. She starred in the horror/comedy Zombieland, along with Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg. The project began shooting in Atlanta in February 2009. Stone played Wichita, a survivor/con artist from Wichita, Kansas, traveling across the U.S. with her younger sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). Stone also starred in Paper Man in 2009, alongside Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds and Lisa Kudrow, directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney. She played Abby, a babysitter that Daniels' character hires after moving to Long Island. Stone began filming the independent comedy on November 11, 2008, in Montauk, New York, using well-known local locations.

Stone at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

In 2010, Stone had a voice role in Marmaduke, a film adaptation of the long-running comic strip about a Great Dane. She voiced Marmaduke's friend, Mazie, a tomboyish Australian Shepherd. Stone landed her first leading role that year, starring with Amanda Bynes as a high school student in Easy A, a comedy directed by Will Gluck. Her character scandalizes her teachers and more conservative religious classmates after a false rumor circulates that she is sexually promiscuous. The script contrasts the novel The Scarlet Letter and its heroine, Hester Prynne, to the life of the protagonist in the film. Stone read the script before the project was optioned for production, and kept an eye on it along with her manager until preparations were made. She was attracted to the script because it was "funny and sweet" and her character was "fantastic from the first read" who was "fleshed [..] out so much in the script". When she found out that the film went into production, she met with Gluck to express her enthusiasm about the project. A few months later, the audition process started and Stone met again with Gluck to be one of the first actresses to audition. Stone was nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her role.

While the jury's still out on whether or not Jim Carrey was 100% joking as he claims, we'll take the time to tell you why Emma Stone should, at the very least, make the cut for AskMen's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of next year. After initially making a splash as Jules in the 2007 comedy hit Superbad, the American actress Emma Stone has become one of Hollywood's own precious jewels as a result. Displaying the always welcome combination of cuteness and charisma, Emma Stone has taken her career to new highs with supporting roles in mainstream efforts like The House Bunny and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, and surprise offbeat hits like Zombieland. Attractive, talented and not in trouble with the law, Emma Stone is a hot commodity among young Hollywood actresses -- and if her upcoming roles in Paper Man and Easy A are any indication, her star will only continue to shine brighter.