Emma Stone is an American actress who aspired to an acting career from an early age.[1] She had her first role onstage at age 11,[2] and followed with parts in sixteen plays in a regional theater in Arizona.[3] Stone made her television debut in the unsold pilot for the reality show The New Partridge Family (2005).[4] After brief television roles in Medium, Malcolm in the Middle, and Lucky Louie, she made her film debut in the comedy Superbad (2007).[5]
Stone appeared as a ghost in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), and found commercial success with the horror comedy Zombieland.[6] Her breakthrough came with her first leading role as a high school student perceived to be sexually promiscuous in the comedy Easy A (2010).[7] In 2011, she starred in the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and in the period drama The Help, which were both commercial successes.[8][9] Stone's success continued with her role as Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man that became her highest-grossing release, with a worldwide revenue of $757 million, and she later reprised the role in its 2014 sequel.[10] Critical success followed with her performance as a recovering drug addict in Alejandro González Iñárritu's black comedy-drama Birdman (2014). It earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.[11] Later that year, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Cabaret.