Emma Stone: Talent and Empowerment

“Creative activities are excellent therapy for finding calm.” The phrase belongs to actress Emma Stone. She said it, a long time ago, in an interview for Efe, while she was climbing the last meters that separated her from the golden peak of her career, and she has been shining ever since.

The “Best Actress” Oscar winner is now celebrating her 35th birthday. And he does, earning critical acclaim for his next film.

From therapy to profession

Emily Jean Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona (United States). She is the daughter of Jeff Stone and Krista Yeager, and has a younger brother, Spencer. English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish and German blood flows through his veins.

At the age of four, he already expressed his artistic vocation. Furthermore, he suffered from panic attacks from the age of 8, which made his daily life at school and social life difficult: “I didn’t want to go to my friends or go out and no one understood,” he told ABCNews.

But from the age of 11, acting was his way of doing it, he started acting in improv comedy: “it gave me a purpose, to make people laugh,” he explained.

So, after acting in various school and community plays, Emma dropped out of high school to move to Los Angeles at the age of 15, in pursuit of her dream of becoming an actress.

He started with commercials, while trying his luck at some castings for series, or programs for networks like the Disney Channel, always facing rejection. But that didn’t make him give up: “I never stopped until I achieved it,” he said in an interview with Efe. Thus, he had to go through small and episodic roles in series such as “Medium” or “Malcom in the Middle”, and poorly received films such as “The Rocker” (2008), without achieving the main character in the relevant series. .. Until 2009.

From glory to sanctification

The role that marked his real breakthrough in casting was the successful “Zombieland” (2009). A great year for Emma Stone, because she also worked in two more films, “Paper Man” and “Ghosts of Girlfriends”. This was followed by roles like “Easy A” (2010) or “Crazy, Stupid, Love” (2011), but a year later she definitely gained fame with “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012), playing Gwen Stacy. She reprized the role in 2014 in The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro (2014).

His other works at this stage were “The Help” (2012), “Magic in the Moonlight” (2014), “Birdman” (2014), “Gangster Squad” (2013), Aloha (2015). However, in 2016 comes his definitive consecration into a Hollywood star thanks to his role in the famous “La La Land”. He starred alongside Ryan Gosling, with whom he had already collaborated in “Crazy, Stupid, Love”.

From consecration to infinity

Since then, his filmography has only grown, with films such as “Battle of the Sexes” (2017), “The Favorite” (2018), “Zombieland: Double Tap” (2019) or “Cruella” (2021). and series like “Maniac” (2018).

As for her personal life, Emma Stone has had several famous relationships. The first of them, more precisely, with the colleague from “The Amazing Spiderman”, Andrew Garfield, from 2011 to 2015. The second, with Dave McCary, from “Saturday Night Live”, with whom she started dating in 2017. In They got engaged in 2019, and a year later they said “yes”.

In 2021, they had a daughter and have been together ever since. As for her professional career, Emma is not standing still. On the one hand, he will work on the series “Curse” for Showtime. On the other hand, the Venice festival could have hinted at the upcoming debut of “Les Miserables,” Stone’s next film in which he is working again with director Yorgos Lanthimos (“Favorite”).