Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone, known professionally as Emma Stone, born November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, is one of the most admired and versatile actresses of her generation, a two-time Academy Award winner whose work encompasses sharp comedy, musical performance, psychological drama, and surrealist cinema with equal naturalism and a distinctive sardonic wit. She grew up in a theater-loving family in Scottsdale, performing in community theater from age eleven and lobbying her parents persistently to allow her to move to Los Angeles, eventually persuading them through a PowerPoint presentation set to Madonna's Hollywood. She landed small roles in VH1's Drive (2007) and built a reputation through Superbad (2007), Zombieland (2009), and Easy A (2010), a witty coming-of-age comedy showcasing her natural comic gifts. She escalated into leading-lady status through Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The Help (2011), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Birdman (2014, Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress), and the role defining her first decade: Mia Dolan in La La Land (2016), Damien Chazelle's musical in which she played the aspiring actress with such heart, humor, and devastating vulnerability that the performance won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her second Oscar came for Poor Things (2023), Yorgos Lanthimos's surrealist feminist odyssey, in which she played Bella Baxter with extraordinary physical and emotional commitment, winning rave reviews and solidifying her place among the great screen performers of her era. Her ability to move effortlessly between commercial crowd-pleasing entertainment and avant-garde art cinema is virtually unparalleled in her generation.