Emma Stone is an American actress. She’s the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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- Her low-pitched husky voice is a result of having baby colic, a condition of chronic crying as an infant.
- It lasted six months and resulted in the development of nodules. She has calluses on her vocal cords as an adult.
- Although she’s known as a redhead, her natural hair color is blonde.
- It was Judd Apatow who suggested she change her hair color for Superbad (2007) and she liked it so much that she decided to keep it.
- She didn’t know she had asthma until she had an asthma attack while filming Easy A (2010).
- She convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood when she was age 15 by making a PowerPoint presentation aptly titled, Project Hollywood.
- Has matching bird tattoos with her mother, the birds referring to The Beatles’ song, “Blackbird”. Sir Paul McCartney drew the birds himself.
- Started to use “Emma” as her professional name, because there was already an “Emily Stone” when she applied for her SAG card.
- Auditioned for the role of Claire Bennet in Heroes (2006), but lost out to Hayden Panettiere. She referred to this experience as “rock bottom”.
- Good friends with Jonah Hill, Jennifer Lawrence, and Brie Larson.
- Has played a love interest with Ryan Gosling three times. It could have been four, but they both had dropped out of the movie, Focus (2015), with Margot Robbie and Will Smith replacing them.
- Though it is her trademark, she doesn’t like the sound of her voice, saying to E! Online “I still can’t believe I sound like this.”.
- Was in a relationship with actor Andrew Garfield from 2011 to October 2015.
- One of her dreams was to appear on Saturday Night Live (1975), which she achieved in 2010, in 2011, and again in 2016.
- Was considered for the lead female role in 21 Jump Street (2012), but she had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
- Deleted her Twitter account @stonenobrien when someone hacked it.
- She has since sworn off social media.
- Her mother is a breast cancer survivor.
- Highest paid actress of 2017 with $26 million.
- Her family’s surname was anglicized to “Stone” after immigrating to the United States.
- Her parents owned the Camelback Golf Course in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- When she was age 7, she fell off the parallel bars in gymnastics and broke both her arms.
- Was an obsessive fan of the Spice Girls, Emma Bunton being her favorite.
- Named as having the “Sexiest sense of humor” by Victoria’s Secret What Is Sexy list (2012).
- Her idols are Gilda Radner, Diane Keaton and Marion Cotillard.
- Is a big fan of the show iCarly (2007) and got to appear in one of its final episodes.
- She was performing in Cabaret on Broadway when she was cast for her Academy Award winning role in La La Land (2016). Before her triumph the last time an actress won Leading Actress for a musical was Liza Minnelli for the movie version of Cabaret (1972).
- Has a phobia of being lifted in the air, because she broke her arms after being lifted onto a high beam.
- She is of Swedish (paternal grandfather), German, as well as Welsh, Irish, English, Scottish, and Swiss-German, ancestry. Her family’s surname was changed from Sten to Stone.
- The first name of “Wichita,” her character in Zombieland (2009), is Krista. This is likely in homage to her mother, whose first name is also Krista.
- Friends with Mila Kunis and Taylor Swift.
- Prefers to be called Emily over Emma.
- Has a daughter: Louise Jean McCary (b. March 13, 2021) with husband, Dave McCary.
- She got her start in acting at 11 years of age at the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, where she starred in over 16 stage productions as well as performing the theatre’s comedy improv troupe. Caylee Cowan was also acted at the Valley Youth Theatre.
- Is a big fan of Marion Cotillard and revealed to French newspaper L’Express that she can’t count the times that she reenacted the scenes from La vie en rose (2007) in her room.
- Her middle name, Jean, was her grandmother’s first name.
- In elementary school, she started being called Emma after Emma Bunton because she’s a huge fan of the Spice Girls & her hair color used to be blonde.
- Is one of 8 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a musical. The others in chronological order are; Rita Moreno, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Anne Hathaway.
- Ranked #5 on Askmen’s list of the top 99 “most desirable” women for 2013.
- Attended Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona.
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