Emma Stone, Actress: La La Land. Emily Jean “Emma” Stone was born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager). Emily Jean “Emma” Stone is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2017, she was the world’s highest-paid actress and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Emma Stone has made it perfectly clear that she is not Harry Potter’s Emma Watson. It may be incredibly confusing, what with them both having the same first name, but they’re most definitely different people, with their own bodies and personalities and everything.