Emma Stone
American actress and producer (born 1988)
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- Due to the controversy of being one of twenty white actors nominated for an Oscar while no actors of color were nominated in 2015, she says she learned a major lesson about Hollywood and that her eyes have been opened.
- Has matching bird tattoos with her mother, the birds referring to the Beatles' song "Blackbird". Sir Paul McCartney drew the birds himself.
- Her low-pitched husky voice is a result of having baby colic, a condition of chronic crying as an infant. It lasted six months and resulted in the development of nodules. She has calluses on her vocal cords as an adult.
- Voted #6 on Ask Men's top 99 'most desirable' women of 2012.
- Started to use "Emma" as her professional name, because there was already an "Emily Stone" when she applied for her SAG card.
- Her family's surname was anglicized to "Stone" when immigrating to the United States through Ellis Island.
- Emma has Swedish ancestry through her paternal grandfather, Conrad Ostberg Stone. Conrad's parents, Conrad August Stone and Florence Jeanette Ostberg, were both the children of Swedish immigrants, and the family's original surname, "Sten", had been changed to "Stone". Emma's other ancestry includes Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, Irish and Scottish.
- Although she's 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 it so much that she decided to keep it.
- Attended Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ.
- Her parents owned the Camelback Golf Course.