Emma Stone’s 11 Most Memorable Performances So Far

Just over a decade ago, no one could have guessed that Emma Stone, the young, Arizona-born starlet who had a reputation for playing quippy high schoolers, would become a Hollywood heavyweight. The first double Oscar winner of her generation, she scored her first statuette for her fleet-footed turn in La La Land and her second for the unrivaled powerhouse performance she delivers in Poor Things .

But then again, revisit her earliest work now and you’ll see that all of her hallmarks—that jaunty physicality, the expert comic timing, the utter fearlessness—have been there since the very beginning. Ahead of the premiere of her latest release, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos’s audacious Bugonia , at this year’s Venice Film Festival —and in honor of Stone’s September 2025 Vogue cover —