Emma Stone is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2017.
Stone was born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Krista (Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeff Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish (from her paternal grandfather), English, Scottish, and Irish descent. Stone began acting as a child, in a theater production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother and made her television debut in In the Motherhood (2009). After small television roles, she made her film debut in Superbad (2007), and received positive media attention for her role in Zombieland (2009). She starred in the horror comedy Easy A (2010) and the comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), with Steve Carell. This breakthrough was followed with further success in the romantic comedy The Help (2011). Stone’s prominence as an actress continued with her starring role in the horror film The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of a recovering drug addict in the black comedy Birdman (2014).
Stone continued acting in commercially successful films, such as The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Birdman (2014). She received widespread acclaim for her role as an aspiring actress in the musical La La Land (2016). For this role, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and received a second Academy Award nomination. Stone also received acclaim for her performance in the black comedy The Favourite (2018), for which she earned a third Academy Award nomination.
Stone has appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013 and in 2017, she was featured by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is also ranked by Forbes as the world’s seventh highest-paid actress of 2018, with earnings of $26 million.