Emma Stone
Birthdate: Nov 6, 1988
Birthplace: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Emma Stone (birthname: Emily Jean Stone) has developed from a sharp comic actor into the most daring American female actor of her generation—particularly in her collaborations with Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos—resulting in her winning the Best Actress Oscar twice before age 40, while augmenting this with a distinctive filmography as a producer backing such indie filmmakers as Jesse Eisenberg and Jane Schoenbrun as well as Lanthimos.
Stone made her feature debut in what’s still one of the funniest American movies of the 21st century, the Judd Apatow-produced Superbad (2007), starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen (who co-wrote with Evan Goldberg), Bill Hader and Christopher Mintz-Plasse under Greg Mottola’s direction, and grossing a knockout $171 million for Columbia Pictures/Sony Releasing.
Stone joined lead Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Jeff Garlin and Josh Gad in 20th Century Fox’s The Rocker (2008), directed by Peter Cattaneo, and then Stone landed her first co-starring role opposite lead Anna Faris (who also produced with lead producer Adam Sandler) and Colin Hanks in The House Bunny (2008), directed by Fred Wolf and earning over $70 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. Stone played a supporting role in the New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. Pictures fantasy rom-com drawn from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner under Mark Waters’ direction, with Robert Forster, Anne Archer, and Michael Douglas, returning a $102.4 million box office.
Emma Stone co-starred with Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds in co-directors/writers Kieran Mulroney’s and Michele Mulroney’s little-seen comedy-drama, Paper Man (2009), with Kieran Culkin, Hunter Parrish and Lisa Kudrow, followed by Stone experiencing her career breakthrough playing opposite Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin in the hit zombie comedy, Zombieland (2009), directed by Ruben Fleischer, premiering at Fantastic Fest and grossing over $102 million for Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing, which was followed by the Columbia/Sony sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), reuniting the original cast and director, and delivering a solid $125 million box office.
Stone had her first voice role (as Maxie, an Australian Shepherd) in 20th Century Fox’s feature version of Bran Anderson’s comic strip, Marmaduke (2010), with Owen Wilson, Lee Pace, Judy Greer, William H. Macy, Steve Coogan, Sam Elliott, Fergie, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kiefer Sutherland and Marlon Wayans under Tom Dey’s direction, and delivering a $90 million box office.
Stone’s first face-on-the-poster starring role was in director/producer Will Gluck’s hit teen rom com, Easy A (2010), with Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell and Stanley Tucci, written by Bert V. Royal, and grossing a robust $75 million for Screen Gems/Sony Releasing after launching to great reviews for Stone at the Toronto Film Festival. Stone continued with director/co-writer/producer Gluck for the rom-com, Friends with Benefits (2011), co-starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, with Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Richard Jenkins, Woody Harrelson, and Andy Samberg, delivering another box office triumph for Screen Gems/Sony with $149.5 million.
Emma Stone was among the ensemble leads for her third consecutive rom-com hit with Crazy, Stupid Love (2011), starring and co-produced by Steve Carell (with producer Denise Di Novi), co-starring Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei, and Kevin Bacon under Glenn Ficarra’s and John Requa’s co-direction and returning an excellent $145 million gross. Stone, in yet another commercial hit, stepped out from rom coms for a supporting role in director/writer Tate Taylor’s screen version of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel set in the Civil Rights era, The Help (2011), starring Oscar-nominated Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Oscar-nominated Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney and Octavia Spencer (who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar), grossing nearly $222 million for its producers in the U.S. (DreamWorks Pictures), India (Reliance Entertainment, which also distributed in India) and the UAE and distributor Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Stone upped her profile to global heights as Gwen in the female lead in Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), soon followed by the sequel also starring Andrew Garfield and directed by Marc Webb, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), with Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field, and grossing a combined box office of $1.475.7 billion for Columbia Pictures/Marvel Entertainment/Sony Releasing. Stone reunited with director Ruben Fleischer for her first crime drama, Gangster Squad (2013), co-starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, and Michael Peñana, and returning over $105 million box office for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Emma Stone performed her first voice role in an animated movie as co-lead with Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds in co-directors/co-writers Chris Sanders’ and Kirk DeMicco’s hit Stone Age comedy for DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods (2013), premiering at the Berlin Film Festival and grossing over $587 million for distributor 20th Century Fox; Stone continued her role as Eep Crood in the sequel, The Croods: A New Age (2020), directed by Joel Crawford, and grossing nearly $216 million for distributor Universal Pictures.
Stone was cast in the co-lead (with Colin Firth) in her first of two Woody Allen movies, the U.S.-France-backed Magic in the Moonlight (2014), co-starring Eileen Atkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater, Simon McBurney and Jacki Weaver, grossing a good $51 million return for Sony Pictures Classics (U.S.)/Mars Distribution (France); Stone reunited with director/writer Allen for the mystery comedy-drama, Irrational Man (2015), starring Jamie Blackley, Joaquin Phoenix and Parker Posey, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and returning over $27 million in box office for Sony Pictures Classics.
Stone earned her first Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actress) for her role in director/co-writer/producer Alejandro González Iñárritu’s comedy-drama, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan and Naomi Watts, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, grossing over $103 million for Fox Searchlight Pictures and winning four Oscars (including Iñárritu’s three for Best Picture, Director and a shared one for Original Screenplay). Stone then co-starred in the role of an Air Force pilot with Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams in director/writer/producer Cameron Crowe’s comedy, Aloha (2015), with Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Alec Baldwin, returning a poor $26.3 million gross for distributors Sony Releasing (U.S./Canada) and 20th Century Fox (international).
Emma Stone won her first Best Actress Oscar and co-starred in her second Best Picture nominee in three years for her engaging musical comedy-drama performance opposite co-star Ryan Gosling in director/writer Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016), with John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons and Finn Wittrock, earning a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations (and winning six, including Chazelle for Best Director), and delivering a knockout box office number of $472 million. Stone portrayed her first true-life character, tennis legend Billie Jean King, opposite Steve Carrell’s Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes (2017), with Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman, Bill Pullman, Alan Cumming and Elisabeth Shue under Valerie Faris’ and Jonathan Dayton’s co-direction, launching at the Telluride Film Festival and grossing a disappointing $18.6 million for Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Stone then began her remarkable run of films with Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos—as well as a new, more flamboyant style--receiving a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her dazzling turn in the period black comedy, The Favourite (2018), co-written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, and co-starring Olivia Colman (winning the Best Actress Oscar) and Rachel Weisz (also Oscar nominated), with Nicholas Hoult and Joe Alwyn, premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, landing ten Oscar nominations before earning a strong $96 million for distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures. Stone took on the evil title role of Cruella de Vil (actually a double role) as well as her first executive producer credit in Disney’s Cruella (2021), also co-written by McNamara (with Dana Fox as co-credited writer) and directed by Craig Gillespie, with the cast of Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Emily Beecham, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Mark Strong, and grossing a fine $233.5 million.
Emma Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar (among several of the major awards she won) for perhaps her most daring performance to date in her second film project for Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things (2023), adapted from Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel by Tony McNamara, co-starring Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott and Jerrod Carmichael, premiering at the Venice Film Festival (where it won the Golden Lion) and returning an outstanding $118 million gross for Searchlight Pictures while earning eleven Oscar nominations (including Best Picture, and winning four, including. Stone’s). Stone starred in a consecutive film (and her third) with Lanthimos, the absurdist triptych fable, Kinds of Kindness (2024), co-starring Jesse Plemons (who won Best Actor for its Cannes Film Festival premiere), Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer, and earning $16.4 million worldwide for Searchlight Pictures.
Stone appeared in a supporting role in the ensemble of director/writer/producer Ari Aster’s neo-Western, Eddington (2025), starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, and Austin Butler, premiering in competition at the Cannes Film Festival but delivering poor box office returns for A24 with a $12.7 million number. Stone reunited with director/producer Yorgos Lanthimos and co-star Jesse Plemons for her fourth Lanthimos project, the conspiracy-laden black comedy, Bugonia (2025), adapted from Jang Joon-hwan’s Korean sci-fi film Save the Green Planet! (2003) by screenwriter Will Tracy, with the supporting cast of Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halki, and Alicia Silverstone, premiering at the Venice Film Festival and released wide by Focus Features.
Emma Stone began her robust film producing career after co-founding her production company, Fruit Tree, with Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World (2022), co-starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, and released by A24. Stone was a lead producer on another debut indie film, director/writer/producer/lead actor Julio Torres’s surreal comedy-drama, Problemista (2023), co-starring Tilda Swinton, RZA, and Greta Lee, and released again by A24 to a $2.7 million box office return.
Stone continued her producing career—and received an Oscar Best Picture nomination—for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and then was a lead producer for director/writer Jane Schoenbrun’s surreal indie, I Saw the TV Glow (2024), with Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Fred Durst and Danielle Deadwyler, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and grossing $5.4 million for A24. Stone reunited with director/writer/co-lead Jesse Eisenberg for his comedy-drama, A Real Pain (2024), co-starring Kieran Culkin (who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar), premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, and earning a robust $25 million for distributor Searchlight Pictures.
Stone returned to collaborate as producer with her constant filmmaker partner, Yorgos Lanthimos, on Bugonia (2025). Stone once again was a lead producer with director/writer Jesse Eisenberg for his provisionally titled Untitled Musical Comedy Jesse Eisenberg (date to be announced), co-starring Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, and Bernadette Peters, produced by A24/Fruit Tree/Topic Studios and released by A24.
Personal life
Emma Stone was born and raised in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona by her parents Jeffrey (founder and CEO of a general contracting company) and Krista (homemaker). Stone has a younger brother, Spencer. Stone’s ancestry is Swedish, German, English, Scottish and Irish. Stone attended Sequoya Elementary School, Cocopah Middle School and the all-girl Catholic Xavier College Preparatory High School, from which she dropped out during her freshman year to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles in 2004. Stone relocated there with her mother, auditioning while taking online high school courses for her GED. Stone has been married to comedian/writer/producer/director Dave McCary since 2020; the couple has a daughter, Louise Jean. Stone and McCary live in Austin, Texas. Stone sold her Malibu home for $4.425 million in 2022 and then sold her Los Angeles home for $4 million in 2024. Stone’s height is 5’ 5¾ ”. Stone’s estimated net worth is $60 million.
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actor
Previous (30)
- 2025 |
- 2025 |
- 2024 |
Kinds of Kindness
asRita
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.
- 2023 |
Poor Things
asBella Baxter
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
- 2021 |
- 2020 |
The Croods: A New Age
asEep
The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.
- 2019 |
Zombieland: Double Tap
asWichita
Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.
- 2018 |
The Favourite
asAbigail
In early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
- 2017 |
Battle of the Sexes
asBillie Jean King
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
- 2016 |
La La Land
asMia
When Sebastian, a pianist, and Mia, an actress, follow their passion and achieve success in their respective fields, they find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.
- 2015 | Irrational Man
- 2015 |
- 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- 2014 | Magic in the Moonlight
- 2014 |
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
asGwen Stacy
When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones.
- 2013 |
The Croods
asEep
In the primeval era, Grug and his family risk the dangers of their surroundings to find a new dwelling place. Along the way, they meet a modern boy who woos them with his adventurous ways.
- 2013 |
- 2013 |
Gangster Squad
asGrace Faraday
It's 1949 Los Angeles, the city is run by gangsters and a malicious mobster, Mickey Cohen. Determined to end the corruption, John O'Mara assembles a team of cops, ready to take down the ruthless leader and restore peace to the city.
- 2012 |
The Amazing Spider-Man
asGwen Stacy
After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe.
- 2011 |
- 2011 | Crazy, Stupid, Love.
- 2010 | Easy A
- 2010 | Marmaduke
- 2009 | Paper Man
- 2009 | Zombieland
- 2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- 2008 | The House Bunny
- 2008 | The Rocker
- 2007 | Superbad
- 2007 |
producer
Previous (3)
- 2024 |
I Saw the TV Glow
A teenager just trying to make it through life in the suburbs is introduced by a classmate to a mysterious late-night TV show.
- 2024 |
Problemista
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in NY. As time runs out on his work visa, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country.
- 2023 |
When You Finish Saving the World
When You Finish Saving the World
Evelyn and her oblivious son Ziggy seek out replacements for each other as Evelyn desperately tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, while Ziggy fumbles through his pursuit of a brilliant young woman at school.
Facts About Emma Stone
Determined: Emma Stone was so determined as a teenager to be an actor in Hollywood that she prepared a PowerPoint presentation for her parents titled “Project Hollywood” to sell them on the idea of relocating to Los Angeles so she could pursue an acting career (while earning her high school GED with online courses). Her game plan worked, and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles in 2004.
Shingle: Stone co-founded (with partner and husband Dave McCary) the production company Fruit Tree in 2020.
Payday: Emma Stone was reported by Forbes as the world’s highest-paid female actor in 2017, the same year that was named by Time magazine as the 100 most influential people in the world.
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