Her low, husky voice is the result of having infant colic, a condition of chronic crying in infancy. It lasted six months and resulted in the development of nodules. As an adult, she has calluses on her vocal cords.
She did not know she had asthma until she suffered an asthma attack while filming Easy A (2010).
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 the color so much that she decided to keep it.
At the age of 15, she convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood by giving a PowerPoint presentation titled Project Hollywood.
She deleted her @stonenobrien Twitter account when someone hacked it. She has sworn off social media ever since.
She has matching bird tattoos with her mother; the birds are a reference to the Beatles song "Blackbird." Sir Paul McCartney drew the birds himself.
She began using "Emma" as her professional name because there was already an "Emily Stone" when she applied for her SAG card.
Even though it is her trademark, she dislikes the tone of her voice, telling E! Online, "I still can't believe I sound like this."
She prefers to be called Emily rather than Emma.
She was in a relationship with Ryan Gosling three times. It could have been four, but both dropped out of Focus (2015) and were replaced by Margot Robbie and Will Smith.
She 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 did in 2010, 2011 and 2016.
With $26 million, she was the highest-paid actress of 2017.
When she was cast in her Oscar-winning role in La La Land (2016), she was performing on Broadway in Cabaret. Before her win, the most recent actress to win Best Actress for a musical was Liza Minnelli, for the film version of Cabaret (1972).
She auditioned for the role of Claire Bennet in Heroes (2006) but lost out to Hayden Panettiere. She called the experience "rock bottom."
Her idols are Gilda Radner, Diane Keaton and Marion Cotillard.
At the age of 7, she fell from the parallel bars in gymnastics and broke both her arms.
She was considered for the female lead in 21 Jump Street (2012) but had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict with The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
She has a fear of being lifted into the air because she broke her arms after being lifted onto a high beam.
Her family's surname was changed to "Stone" in English after they emigrated to the United States.
She has a daughter, Louise Jean McCary (b. March 13, 2021), with her husband Dave McCary.
Her mother is a breast cancer survivor.
She was an obsessive Spice Girls fan, and her favorite was Emma Bunton.
Her family owned the Camelback Golf Course in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Her favorite films are City Lights (1931), Harold and Maude (1971), Network (1976) and Manhattan (1979).
She is of Swedish (paternal grandfather), German, as well as Welsh, Irish, English, Scottish and Swiss-German descent. Her family's surname was changed from Sten to Stone.
She is a huge fan of iCarly (2007) and appeared in one of its final episodes.
The first name of her character "Wichita" in Zombieland (2009) is Krista. This is likely a tribute to her mother, whose first name is Krista.
She was named as having the "Sexiest sense of humor" by Victoria's Secret's What Is Sexy list (2012).
She is one of 8 actresses to win an Oscar for a 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.
Her middle name, Jean, was her grandmother's first name.
She is a huge fan of Marion Cotillard and told the French newspaper L'Express that she could not count the days she spent in her room reenacting scenes from La Vie En Rose (2007).
She has appeared in six films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Help (2011), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), La La Land (2016), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023) and Bugonia (2025). Birdman won in the category.
She began acting at age 11 at the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, where she appeared in more than 16 stage productions and performed with the theater's improvisational comedy troupe. Caylee Cowan also performed at the Valley Youth Theatre.
In elementary school she began going by Emma after Emma Bunton because she was a huge Spice Girls fan and her hair color used to be blonde.
Unexpectedly, she announced that she was withdrawing from the planned co-starring role with Alan Cumming in the 2014 revival production of the musical "Cabaret" and giving up her Broadway debut. The role of Sally Bowles ultimately went to Michelle Williams under the direction of Sam Mendes (2014).
She returned to work to begin filming Poor Things (2023) six months after giving birth to her daughter Louise.
She attended Xavier College Preparatory School in Phoenix, Arizona.
In two of her films, Easy A (2010) and Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" is discussed.
She shares the role of "Gwen Stacy" with Bryce Dallas Howard, the lead actress of The Help (2011).
She ranked 5th on Askmen's 2013 list of the top 99 "most desirable" women of the year.
She has a younger brother named Spencer Stone.
On December 4, 2019, she announced her engagement to Saturday Night Live writer/director Dave McCary after a two-year relationship.
Both she and her Aloha (2015) co-star Rachel McAdams had appeared in romantic films with Ryan Gosling. In the films they made with Gosling, the two actresses shoot a love scene with the actor in the house his character lives in after coming in from the rain.
She earned a place in TIME magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with a tribute written by her friend Brie Larson ("The Emerging Icon").
She was considered for the role of "Cinderella" in Disney's live-action musical "Into The Woods," but turned it down. She was also considered for the role of "Debora" in the 2017 action film Baby Driver (2017), but turned it down because she was shooting La La Land (2016). The role of "Debora" went to Lily James, who played "Cinderella" as the lead in the 2015 live-action Disney remake Cinderella (2015).
Her father Jeff is a contractor and her mother Krista is a housewife.
She is good friends with Jonah Hill, Jennifer Lawrence, Mila Kunis, Taylor Swift and Brie Larson.
She was originally cast as "Amber" in Sucker Punch (2011) but had to leave due to scheduling conflicts. The role later went to Jamie Chung.
She was named one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue.
Although Aloha (2015) was the first film in which she and lead actress Rachel McAdams worked together, both actresses had also worked with the film's main star Bradley Cooper on other films: Stone and Cooper appeared in The Rocker (2008), and McAdams worked with him on Wedding Crashers (2005).
Supporter of Planned Parenthood.
She was one of the options to play Elizabeth Bennett in the 2016 horror action film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016).
(June 26, 2019) She is recovering after falling and injuring herself. Stone injured her shoulder after slipping on the floor in a house.
Despite being Gwen Stacy in the 'Amazing Spider-Man' series, she has never read any comic books.
She has appeared in three films with three stars of The Office (2005): The Rocker (2008) with Rainn Wilson, Crazy, Stupid, Love with Steve Carell (2011), and Aloha (2015) with John Krasinski.
She became the 148th actor to win an Oscar; on February 26, 2017, she won the Best Actress Oscar at the Oscars (2017) for La La Land (2016).
She ranked 6th on Ask Men's list of the 99 most desirable women of 2012.
In 2015, amid the controversy over the lack of Black actor nominees, she said she learned a big lesson about Hollywood as one of twenty white actors nominated for an Oscar and that her eyes were opened.
She is one of 27 actors nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a musical; hers is La La Land (2016). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love for The Broadway Melody (1929), Grace Moore for One Night of Love (1934), Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain (1952), Marjorie Rambeau for Torch Song (1953), Dorothy Dandridge for Carmen Jones (1954), Deborah Kerr for The King and I (1956), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Gladys Cooper for My Fair Lady (1964), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965) and Victor/Victoria (1982), Debbie Reynolds for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Peggy Wood, The Sound of Music (1965), Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Kay Medford for Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Ronee Blakley for Nashville (1975), Lily Tomlin for Nashville (1975), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Lesley Ann Warren for Victor/Victoria (1982), Amy Irving for Yentl (1983), Nicole Kidman for Moulin Rouge! (2001), Queen Latifah for Chicago (2002), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002), Renée Zellweger for Chicago (2002), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Penélope Cruz for Nine (2009), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012) and Meryl Streep for Into the Woods (2014).
She ranked 93rd on FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World (2009) list.
She ranked 38th on FHM Australia's 2011 "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list.
She ranked 66th on Maxim magazine's 2009 Hot 100 list.
She ranked 27th on Maxim's 2014 "Hot 100" list.
She is the daughter of Jeffrey Charles Stone, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a general contracting company, and his housewife Krista Jean (Yeager), and the older sister of Spencer Stone.
She ranked 42nd on Maxim magazine's 2011 Top 100 Women list.
She ranked 49th on Maxim magazine's 2010 Hot 100 list.
Her longtime manager is Doug Wald.
Paternal granddaughter of Conrad Ostberg Stone (b. Pennsylvania) (son of Conrad August Stone (b. Pennsylvania) and his wife Florence Jeanette Ostberg (b. Ohio), paternal grandson of Carl Johan Sten, later Charles John Stone (b. Svenljunga, Mårdaklev, Älvsborgs Län, Sweden) and his wife Hilma Josephina Bengston or Bengtson, and maternal granddaughter of Johan, later John Gottfrid Östberg (b. Sweden) and his wife Johanna Albertina or Altina Lindström (b. Sweden), and his wife Margaret Jean Moran (b. Ohio) (daughter of John Henry Moran and his wife Margaret Jane Davies).
She ranked 93rd on Ask Men's 2009 Top 99 Women list.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) is being filmed in Los Angeles, California, USA.
I was born at 12:50 (MST).
Donald Earl "Don" Yeager (b. Pennsylvania) was the maternal grandson of Irvin Sylvester Yeager and his wife Esther Katharine Parks (son of Sylvester Noll Yeager and his wife Mary "Mamie" E. Burke, and maternal grandson of Alfred Parks and his wife Ann "Annie" Gertrude Knuffman, or Knufmann, or Kauffman), and of his wife Jean Louise Eiseman (b. Pennsylvania) (daughter of Cyrus Robert Eiseman and his wife Ruth Ann Henry, paternal granddaughter of Robert Patterson Eiseman and his wife Esther Lurline, or Lurine, Hoffman, and maternal granddaughter of Jackson Henry and his wife Lydia Jane Turner, of the Donald clan).