Emily Jean Stone was born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her acting debut came in a stage production of The Wind in the Willows at the age of 11. As a teenager, she made her television debut in In Search of the New Partridge Family. She made her film debut in Superbad and received positive media attention for her role in Zombieland. Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a recovering drug addict in the black comedy Birdman. She has since starred in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries Maniac and the comedy sequel Zombialand: Double Tap. In 2017, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Emily Jean Stone was born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her acting debut came in a stage production of The Wind in the Willows at the age of 11. As a teenager, she made her television debut in In Search of the New Partridge Family. She made her film debut in Superbad and received positive media attention for her role in Zombieland. Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a recovering drug addict in the black comedy Birdman. For her performance as an aspiring actress in the romantic musical La La Land, Stone won the Oscar for Best Actress. She has since starred in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries Maniac and the comedy sequel Zombialand: Double Tap. In 2017, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is the voice of the lead female character Eep in The Croods and its 2020 sequel. Her paternal grandfather, Conrad Ostberg Sten, was from a Swedish family that anglicized their surname to \”Stone\” when they immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island. She also has German, English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. Stone suffered panic attacks as a child, which she says caused a decline in her social skills. She underwent therapy but states that it was her participation in local theater plays that helped cure the attacks. Stone has described herself as having been “loud’ and “bossy” while growing up.
She was educated at Sequoya Elementary School and attended Cocopah Middle School for the sixth grade. Although she did not like school, she has stated that her controlling nature meant that “I made sure I got all As’”. She has a younger brother, Spencer. She appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013 and in 2017, Stone was named in Time magazine’s list of the top 100 people to watch in the next 12 months. Her father is Jeffrey Charles Stone, the founder and CEO of a general-contracting company, and her mother is Krista Jean Stone, a homemaker. Stone attended Xavier College Preparatory in the 1970s and worked at the William Morris Agency in the 1980s. Her parents sent her for private acting lessons with a local acting coach, who had worked at Allon Morris Agency. She dropped out of college to become an actress, but dropped out one semester after becoming an all-girl Catholic high school student. She went on to star in The Amazing Spider-Man, and its 2014 sequel, and the movie Croods. Stone also appeared in the biographical sports film Battle of the Sexes and the historical comedy-drama The Favourite, receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the latter. She played Billie Jean King in the film Battle of the Sexes and Abigail Masham in the historical film drama The Favourite in the 2010 series The Croods and its 2020 sequel.
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