Name at birth: Emily Jean Stone

Actress Emma Stone is best known for her star performance in the 2010 comedy Easy A. She got her big break in the movies as the wide-smiling redhead who enchants Jonah Hill in the 2007 comedy Superbad, and has since proven herself as a leading comic actress. A native of Arizona, Stone got her first experience with Hollywood in the VH1 reality show In Search of the Partridge Family (2004); she won the role of Laurie Partridge and appeared in a TV movie, The New Partridge Family, in 2005. Her brief comic work in Superbad led to parts in other features, including The House Bunny (2008), Zombieland (2009, with Abigail Breslin) and The Help (2011, with Jessica Chastain and Allison Janney).