“La La Land”, with a revenue of 445.3 million USD, not only brought an Oscar to Emma Stone in the category “Best Actress”, but also brought her to the top position on the list. The actress with the highest income in the world in 2017 voted by the famous Forbes magazine, when she pocketed 26 million USD (not including taxes) from June 2016 to June 2017.

What few people know is that Emma Stone’s career did not begin to flourish until now. She has participated in many movies associated with her name such as “Easy A” (2008) or played Spiderman’s lover – Stacy in “The Amazing Spiderman”. However, “La La Land” is the factor that brought Emma to the peak of her career.

Started a business at… 4 years old

The “La La Land” girl, full name Emily Jean “Emma” Stone, was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of a family with two sisters. Emma’s father, Mr. Jeff Stone, is a contracting engineer and her mother, Krista (née Yeager) is a homemaker. Her grandparents were originally from Sweden, but after immigrating to America, they changed their surname to Stone. With bright red hair and big round eyes, this American girl seems to have inherited Swedish beauty from her grandparents.

From an early age, severe stomach pains made Emma cry a lot, adversely affecting her vocal cords. Emma described her voice at that time as “very loud”. It took many years for her to regain her voice. In addition, Emma suffered from panic attacks, which reduced her social skills. Because of this disease, Emma had to study at home for 2 years.

Having started acting at the age of 4, Emma wanted to start her career in comedy, but then changed her focus to musical theater. In 2000, at the age of 12, Emma played the role of Otter in the play “The wind in the willows”.

During this time, Emma was studying at Xavier College – an all-girls Catholic high school. One evening, Emma invited her parents into her room to listen to a presentation she had painstakingly prepared. Thinking it was an important assignment in their child’s class, her parents immediately complied with their daughter’s request.

But the content of the presentation is completely unrelated to any school subjects, but revolves around a dream that is in the rich imagination of many teenage girls like Emma: How to become become a movie star? The presentation was titled “Project Hollywood” by Emma, ​​in which the 14-year-old girl outlined every specific detail to help her parents understand why she was born to become a star. What can cinema and parents do to help her fulfill that mission?

 

Emma Stone at the 2017 Oscars.

Although they were surprised by their daughter’s rather… humorous seriousness, Emma’s parents listened very attentively and instead of considering it just a joke of their imagination, they actually does exactly what she outlined. Not long after listening to her daughter’s presentation, Emily’s mother left Arizona with her daughter to go to Hollywood to take the first steps in the plan to become a movie star that Emily outlined during the evening of the presentation. destiny.

From failure, to success

In 2004, at the age of 16, Emma made her television debut as Laurie Partridge on VH1’s talent show In Search of the New Partridge Family. 3 years later, she auditioned for the role of Claire Bennet in the science fiction film “Heroes” (2007) but was unsuccessful.

In April 2007, she played Violet Trimble in a Fox action movie, but the project was canceled after 7 episodes. Despite those failures, Emma continued to appear in the comedy “Superbad” (2007) directed by Greg Mottola. A commentator for The Hollywood Reporter commented that her acting was “compelling”, but the script for her role was not very well written.

However, thanks to “Superbad”, Emma received the Young Hollywood Award in the category “New Outstanding Face”. The following year, Stone starred in the comedy “The Rocker” (2008), Amelia Stone, the “straight” professional drummer in a band. To play this role, Emma had to spend time learning to play the drums.

In 2009, Emma continuously appeared in a series of movies. Among them is the teen comedy “Easy A” based on the 1850 historical romance novel “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathiniel Hawthorne. The film received positive reviews, and Emma’s performance was considered a key element. Emma was nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star Award and a Golden Globe Award for “Best Actress” in a Comedy and won the MTV Movie Award for “Best Comedy Series”.

Not stopping there, Emma continued to attract widespread attention when playing Gwen Stacy in the movie “The Amazing Spiderman” (2012) and its sequel in 2014. She won an Oscar nomination for “Actress”. best supporting role” for her role as a recovering drug addict in the black comedy “Birdman” (2014).

She first participated in the musical “Broadway Cabaret” (2014-2015). And most recently, in 2016, she played Mia Dolan in the musical film “La La Land”, earning her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for “Best Actress”.

It can be said that Emma has become a successful and famous actress in Hollywood. LoveFilm included her in its list of the top 20 actresses of 2010 under 30, and her role in “Easy A” was included in Time’s Top 10 Everything of 2010. She appeared in The 2013 Celebrity 100, a compilation of the 100 most powerful people in the world, selected annually by Forbes.

The magazine said she earned $16 million from June 2012 to June 2013. That same year, she was ranked first in the magazine’s Top 10 Best Value Stars. In 2015, Forbes announced that she had become one of the highest-paid actresses with earnings of $6.5 million. In 2017, she was voted by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.