49 Fun Facts About Emma Stone

Emma Stone was born in which Arizona city?

Scottsdale was home until she was 15, when she talked her parents into letting her quit high school after one semester and leave for California to act.

What is Emma Stone's real first name?

'Emily Stone' was already taken when she registered with the Screen Actors Guild at 16.

Stone's husky voice is traced to vocal-cord nodules caused by what in infancy?

Baby colic had her screaming so much as an infant that her vocal cords calloused over, and the husky result became one of her trademarks.

Stone's surname was anglicised from 'Sten', the name of her grandfather's family, who were of which origin?

Swedish: 'sten' is simply the Swedish word for stone, so the family translated its name rather than inventing a new one.

At age 11, Stone made her acting debut playing which animal in The Wind in the Willows?

Otter came at a hard time: Stone had been having panic attacks since she was small, and has said that youth theatre and improv comedy are what got her through them.

Stone convinced her parents to let her move to LA with a PowerPoint presentation titled what?

Project Hollywood worked: in January 2004, aged 15, she dropped out of her Catholic high school and moved into an apartment there with her mother.

Between early auditions in California, Stone worked part-time at what kind of business?

A dog-treat bakery paid the bills while she auditioned to play the daughter on, by her own count, every sitcom going, and landed none of them.

Before settling on 'Emma', what stage name did Stone briefly use?

Riley lasted only a few months: when a crew called 'Riley' on set she had no idea who they meant, so she went looking for another name.

As a girl, Stone asked to be called Emma after which Spice Girl?

Baby Spice is Emma Bunton, Stone's childhood idol; Stone made Emma her stage name as a teenager and said in 2024 that she would still rather be called by her real one.

Stone's TV debut was a VH1 reality show recasting which 1970s sitcom?

The Partridge Family revival came her way because her mother saw the advert and thought she looked like Susan Dey; Stone won the part of Laurie, but the pilot was never picked up.

Hayden Panettiere beat Stone to the role of cheerleader Claire Bennet in which NBC sci-fi drama?

Heroes: through the wall she heard the casting team tell Panettiere 'on a scale of 1 to 10 you're an 11', went home for a meltdown, and calls it her rock bottom.

Which 2007 comedy marked Stone's feature film debut?

Superbad was a box-office hit, and Stone played Jules, the classmate whose party invitation sends two teenage boys on an all-night hunt for alcohol.

Stone learned to play which instrument for her role in The Rocker (2008)?

Bass guitar: she learned the right notes for every song so her hands would match on camera, but admits the bass you actually hear in the film isn't hers.

Stone played a sorority president opposite which star of the 2008 comedy The House Bunny?

Anna Faris plays an ex-Playboy bunny who becomes house mother to Stone's socially hopeless sorority; Stone gets to sing, covering the Waitresses' 'I Know What Boys Like'.

In Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Stone plays a ghost who haunts her ex-boyfriend, played by which star?

Matthew McConaughey plays a womanising photographer in this romcom spin on A Christmas Carol, and Stone's ghost drags him back through his romantic past.

What is the name of Stone's con-artist character in Zombieland?

Wichita isn't her real name: the film's survivors go by their home cities so that nobody gets too attached, and Stone played her again in the sequel ten years on.

Stone voiced Mazie in a 2010 comedy about Marmaduke, a dog of which giant breed?

Great Dane Marmaduke got Owen Wilson's voice and Stone's Mazie was an Australian Shepherd, but critics savaged the film, which scored just 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Easy A, Stone's breakthrough, is partially based on which 1850 novel?

The Scarlet Letter is what Olive is reading in English class when a false rumour brands her promiscuous, so she stitches a red 'A' onto her clothes and plays along.

In a 2010 TV sketch, Stone impersonated which actress she was often said to resemble?

Lindsay Lohan: asked about the likeness, Stone, whose red hair came from a bottle, replied, 'I'm the false one. She's the real redhead.'

Stone's character in Crazy, Stupid, Love has just graduated in which field?

Law: Hannah expects her lawyer boyfriend to propose, and when he offers her a job at his firm instead, she storms off to find the smooth talker she had turned down.

In The Help, Stone plays an aspiring writer known by what nickname?

Skeeter, born Eugenia Phelan, was a welcome change for Stone, who said she kept being sent scripts for, in her words, 'the sarcastic interest of the guy'.

The Help is set in the 1960s in which city?

Jackson, Mississippi is the setting, but most of the film was shot in Greenwood, a smaller Delta city picked to stand in for the state capital of the 1960s.

Stone turned down a role in which action comedy after signing on to The Amazing Spider-Man?

21 Jump Street was meant to reunite her with an old co-star, but the Spider-Man deal got in the way; 'I think Channing Tatum swept in,' she joked.

Which actor has played Stone's love interest in three films, including Crazy, Stupid, Love and Gangster Squad?

Ryan Gosling made it three with La La Land, though the pair were second choices: Miles Teller and Emma Watson had been in talks for the parts first.

Stone voices which character in DreamWorks' The Croods?

Eep is the rebellious teenage daughter of Nicolas Cage's overprotective caveman, forever sneaking out of the family cave; Stone voiced her again in the 2020 sequel.

Stone's 2013 film Gangster Squad is set in which city during the 1940s?

Los Angeles in 1949: the film is loosely based on the real police squad assigned to bring down mobster Mickey Cohen, and Stone's character falls for one of its detectives.

Who played Peter Parker opposite Stone's Gwen Stacy in the two Amazing Spider-Man films?

Andrew Garfield and Stone were reported to be a couple off screen for about four years as well, though neither of them would ever confirm it.

In Birdman, Stone plays the daughter of an actor played by whom?

Michael Keaton plays a faded superhero star staging a Broadway play, in a film made to look like one continuous take; the part brought Stone her first Oscar nomination.

Stone starred as Sally Bowles in a Broadway revival of which musical from 2014 to 2015?

Cabaret was her Broadway debut, replacing Michelle Williams; she called it 'the most nerve-racking thing ever' and came close to losing her voice.

Stone regretted which 2015 Cameron Crowe film over the whitewashing of her part-Asian role?

Aloha cast her as fighter pilot Allison Ng, written as a quarter Chinese and a quarter Hawaiian; Crowe apologised, and Stone called whitewashing a problem right across the film industry.

Which director cast Stone in La La Land after watching her perform on Broadway?

Damien Chazelle was so taken with her stage performance that he gave her the lead, a part another Emma, Emma Watson, had earlier been in talks to play.

What is the name of Stone's aspiring-actress character in La La Land?

Mia Dolan serves coffee on a studio lot between failed auditions, humiliations Stone drew from her own early years; she also recorded six songs for the soundtrack.

La La Land's Venice premiere earned Stone which prize?

The Volpi Cup is Venice's prize for best actress; La La Land had opened the festival, and Stone went on to take the Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA awards for the same role.

Which film had really won Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars when La La Land was announced by mistake?

Moonlight: the presenters had been handed the wrong envelope, the one naming Emma Stone as Best Actress, an award she had collected minutes earlier.

Stone gained 15 pounds to play which tennis player in Battle of the Sexes?

Billie Jean King met Stone to help her prepare and later went with her to the Golden Globes; the film restages King's 1973 match against former men's champion Bobby Riggs.

Stone became famous as a redhead, but what is her natural hair colour?

Blonde: as a teenager she dyed it dark brown hoping for more serious parts, later went red, and only returned to her natural shade to play Gwen Stacy.

In The Favourite, Stone and Rachel Weisz play cousins competing for the affection of which monarch?

Queen Anne was played by Olivia Colman, who won the Best Actress Oscar for it; Stone, the lone American in a British cast, was nominated as the scheming servant Abigail.

Which actor, her first big-screen love interest, reunited with Stone for the 2018 Netflix miniseries Maniac?

Jonah Hill had last shared the screen with her as a teenager chasing a party; in Cary Joji Fukunaga's series they are damaged strangers who meet as guinea pigs in a drug trial.

Which director has made The Favourite, Poor Things and Bugonia with Stone?

By 2025 Yorgos Lanthimos had directed her five times, counting one short film; their Poor Things, which she also produced, won her a second Best Actress Oscar.

Who originated Cruella de Vil in live action before Stone's 2021 version?

Glenn Close played Cruella in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its sequel, then came back for Stone's origin story off screen, as one of its executive producers.

What is the name of the production company Stone founded with Dave McCary in 2020?

Fruit Tree's first release was Jesse Eisenberg's directing debut; it later backed his second film, A Real Pain, and two films that brought Stone Best Picture nominations as a producer.

Stone's film Poor Things is a female twist on which classic horror story?

Frankenstein, turned inside out: in the film of Alasdair Gray's novel, Bella Baxter is a dead woman revived with an infant's brain, a part that won Stone a second Best Actress Oscar.

In the Showtime series The Curse, Stone's character Whitney hosts a show on which network?

HGTV is where Whitney and her husband, played by co-creator Nathan Fielder, hope to air 'Fliplanthropy', their show about building eco-friendly homes in the New Mexico desert.

Stone plays three different characters in which 2024 film?

Kinds of Kindness hands each of its stars a new part in every one of its tales, and co-star Jesse Plemons won Best Actor at Cannes for his trio.

Bugonia, in which Stone plays a kidnapped CEO, is a remake of a film from which country?

South Korea's 2003 sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet! is the original; Stone had her head shaved on set and then hid it in public for months to keep the surprise.

Stone's seventh Oscar nomination, in 2026, made her the youngest woman to reach that mark, passing whom?

Meryl Streep had held the record; Stone got there at 37 partly because two of her seven nominations came as a producer, for Best Picture, rather than for acting.

In 2025, Stone and Jennifer Lawrence were announced as producers of a film about which Muppet?

Miss Piggy's film was revealed by Jennifer Lawrence in a podcast interview, with Cole Escola named as its writer and Lawrence and Stone as its producers.

Stone met her future husband Dave McCary while hosting which show in December 2016?

Saturday Night Live employed McCary as a writer and segment director, and Stone starred in one of his sketches that week; they married quietly in 2020.

The matching tattoos Stone and her mother got after her mother's cancer recovery reference which Beatles song?

Blackbird is her mother's favourite song, so Stone asked Paul McCartney himself to sketch the two tiny bird's feet that she and her mother had inked.