Emma Stone

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone She chose to use "Emma" in honor of Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) of the Spice Girls.}} (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2017, she was the world's highest-paid actress and named by ''Time'' magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone began acting as a child in a theater production of ''The Wind in the Willows'' in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles and made her television debut in ''In Search of the New Partridge Family'' (2004), a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. After small television roles, she appeared in a series of well-received teen comedy films, such as ''Superbad'' (2007), ''Zombieland'' (2009), and ''Easy A'' (2010). The last of these was Stone's first leading role, earning her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Following this breakthrough, she had supporting roles in the romantic comedy ''Crazy, Stupid, Love'' (2011) and the period drama ''The Help'' (2011), and gained wider recognition as Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' and its 2014 sequel.

In 2014, Stone played a recovering drug addict in the black comedy ''Birdman'', which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and made her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in a revival of the musical ''Cabaret''. For playing an aspiring actress in the romantic musical ''La La Land'' (2016), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received a third Academy Award nomination for portraying Abigail Masham in the historical comedy-drama ''The Favourite'' (2018). After a leading role in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries ''Maniac'' (2018), she reduced her workload, starring in the sequel ''Zombieland: Double Tap'' (2019) and the crime comedy ''Cruella'' (2021). Stone is married to comedian and writer Dave McCary, with whom she has a daughter. Provided by Wikipedia