Emma Stone burst on the scene back in 2007 with comedy Superbad and is now one of the most in demand young actresses currently working in Hollywood.
And she is back on the big screen this week with her new movie Easy A, which sees her star alongside Thomas Hayden church, Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci.
After being a member of the Valley Youth Theatre group while she was growing up in Scottsdale and moved to LA at the age of fifteen to launch her acting career.
And it was in TV where she found her first break after winning the chance to take on the role of Laurie Partridge in The New Partridge Family in 2005.
But when the show on produced a pilot episode she went on to work on Medium and Malcolm In the Middle before landing the role of Violet Trimble in Drive.
She made her big screen debut in 2007 when she starred in Superbad alongside Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz Plasse.
She took on the role of Jules in the movie and Superbad when on to be a huge critical hit and grossed over $169 million at the box office, not bad for a movie made for $20 million.
And she stayed in comedy for her next couple of projects as she starred alongside Rainn Wilson in The Rocker before going on to The House Bunny with Anna Faris.
Roles in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Paper Man followed until last year when she starred alongside Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin in comedy hit Zombieland.
Directed by Ruben Fleischer the zombie killing comedy was the movie that proved to be the breakout project for the actress as it went on to top the U.S. box office.
Winning over the critics and cinema audiences the movie took over $102 million worldwide and was the biggest grossing zombie movie in history at the U.S. box office.
This summer saw her voice at least on the big screen as she voiced the character of Mazie in Marmaduke. But this week she is back with Easy A.
High school student Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) finds herself the victim of her school's "rumour mill" when she lies to her best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) about a weekend tryst with a fictional college freshman.
Word quickly spreads of Olive's promiscuity and, much to her surprise, she welcomes the attention.
When she agrees to help out a bullied friend by pretending to sleep with him, her image rapidly degrades to a more lascivious state and her world begins to spin out of control.
And Stone has a whole host of projects in the pipeline over the next couple of years. She has already completed work on Crazy, Stupid Love, which also stars Ryan Gosling, Friends With Benefits with Mila Kunis and Woody Harrelson, The Help and The Croods.
She has recently been cast in the new Spider Man reboot, which sees Andrew Garfield in the central role, and she will also star in 21 Jump Street.
Easy A is released 22nd October.
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