Emma Stone is on quite the hot streak. Fresh off of winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in La La Land, she’s now set to star as tennis icon Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes, which opens this week. Stone’s performance, her first as a real person, has been garnering strong reviews. Ten years after her first breakthrough in Superbad, she’s managed to become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Emma Stone’s Net Worth as of 2017: 28 Million
The Academy Award-winning actress is worth $28 million dollars. According to the financial publication Forbes, she is currently the highest paid actress in Hollywood.
2004-2009
Stone moved to Hollywood in January 2004 as a teenager to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Her early years were filled with rejection, however, including missing out on Hayden Panettiere’s role on Heroes. She finally got her breakthrough playing Jonah Hill’s love interest in the high school comedy Superbad in 2007. In 2008 Stone starred in movies such as The House Bunny and The Rocker. She followed these up with a role in the hit action-comedy Zombieland alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson in 2009.
2010-2013
2010 would be Stone’s biggest breakthrough yet, when she played the leading role in the high school comedy Easy A. Her performance netted her wide acclaim and, ultimately, her first Golden Globe. Her hot streak continued into 2011 with roles in the hit films Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help. In 2012, a starring role as love interest Gwen Stacey in The Amazing Spiderman elevated her star power even further.
2014-Present
In the past few years, Stone has managed to become not just a box office star but a critical darling. In 2014 she played a recovering addict and the daughter of Michael Keaton’s character in the eventual best picture winner Birdman, a role which also won her her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. And her starring role as aspiring actress Mia in last year’s La La Land won her even further acclaim and culminated in her winning her first Academy Award, for Best Actress, this past February. And with her performance as Billie Jean King winning her more strong reviews, it looks like Stone’s Hollywood dominance will continue for the foreseeable future.
