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Emma Stone

ACTOR · BORN 1988

Emma Stone

Born
6 November 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Known for
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), The Sound of Music (1965), The House Bunny (2008), Aloha (2015)

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Emma Stone (born 6 November 1988) is an actor best known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), The Sound of Music and The House Bunny.

34 Interesting Facts About Emma Stone

Interesting Facts (4)

  1. #001

    Her idols are Gilda Radner, Diane Keaton and Marion Cotillard.

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  2. #002

    Was an obsessive fan of the Spice Girls, Emma Bunton being her favorite.

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  3. #003

    Is a big fan of the show iCarly (2007) and got to appear in one of its final episodes.

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  4. #004

    (June 26, 2019) Recovering after falling over and injuring herself. Stone hurt her shoulder after slipping on a floor at a home.

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Production Story (5)

  1. #005

    She unexpectedly announced that she had decided to pull out of her planned co-starring role with Alan Cumming—and forgo her Broadway debut—in the 2014 revival production of the musical Cabaret. The role of Sally Bowles ultimately went to Michelle Williams under the direction of Sam Mendes (2014).

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  2. #006

    She was originally cast as Amber in Sucker Punch (2011) but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. The role later went to Jamie Chung.

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  3. #007

    She auditioned for the role of Claire Bennet in Heroes (2006) but lost out to Hayden Panettiere. She referred to this experience as "rock bottom".

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  4. #008

    She was considered for the role of "Cinderella" in the Disney live-action musical Into the Woods but turned it down. She was also considered for the role of "Debora" in the 2017 action movie Baby Driver (2017) but turned it down due to her filming La La Land (2016). The role of "Debora" went to Lily James, who played "Cinderella" in the 2015 live-action Disney remake Cinderella (2015) as the title character.

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  5. #009

    She 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).

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Behind the Scenes (2)

  1. #010

    She returned to work six months after giving birth to her daughter Louise to begin filming Poor Things (2023).

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  2. #011

    Although she is 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.

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Characters & Cast (3)

  1. #012

    She 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.

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  2. #013

    Even though she plays Gwen Stacy in the Amazing Spider-Man franchise, she has never read any of the comics.

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  3. #014

    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."

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Easter Eggs & References (3)

  1. #015

    The first name of Krista, her character in Zombieland (2009), is likely an homage to her mother, whose first name is also Krista.

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  2. #016

    In two of her films, Easy A (2010) and Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" is discussed.

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  3. #017

    Both she and her Aloha (2015) co-star Rachel McAdams had starred in romance movies with Ryan Gosling. In their films with Gosling, the two actresses do a love scene with the actor in the home his character lives in, after having come in out of the rain.

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Career & Awards (6)

  1. #018

    She was named as having the "Sexiest sense of humor" by Victoria's Secret's What Is Sexy list in 2012.

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  2. #019

    She was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue.

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  3. #020

    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).

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  4. #021

    She was ranked #5 on Askmen's list of the top 99 "most desirable" women for 2013.

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  5. #022

    She started using "Emma" as her professional name because there was already an "Emily Stone" when she applied for her SAG card.

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  6. #023

    Due to the controversy of being one of twenty white actors nominated for an Oscar while no actors of color were nominated in 2015, she says she learned a major lesson about Hollywood and that her eyes have been opened.

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Life & Family (11)

  1. #024

    She didn't know she had asthma until she had an asthma attack while filming Easy A (2010).

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  2. #025

    She has a phobia of being lifted in the air because she broke her arms after being lifted onto a high beam.

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  3. #026

    She has matching bird tattoos with her mother, the birds referring to The Beatles' song "Blackbird". Sir Paul McCartney drew the birds himself.

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  4. #027

    Her low-pitched, husky voice is the result of having baby colic, a condition of chronic crying as an infant. It lasted six months and resulted in the development of nodules. As an adult, she has calluses on her vocal cords.

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  5. #028

    Her parents owned the Camelback Golf Course in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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  6. #029

    She is a big fan of Marion Cotillard and revealed to the French newspaper L'Express that she can't count the times she has reenacted scenes from La Vie En Rose (2007) in her room.

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  7. #030

    In elementary school, she started being called Emma after Emma Bunton because she is a huge fan of the Spice Girls and her hair color used to be blonde.

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  8. #031

    When she was 7 years old, she fell off the parallel bars in gymnastics and broke both her arms.

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  9. #032

    She deleted her Twitter account @stonenobrien when someone hacked it. She has since sworn off social media.

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  10. #033

    She convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood when she was 15 by making a PowerPoint presentation aptly titled Project Hollywood.

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  11. #034

    Her father Jeff is a contractor and her mother Krista is a homemaker.

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Sources & editorial notes

Reference databases

  • Wikipedia English Wikipedia article
  • IMDb IMDb name page (biography and trivia)

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