Emma Stone’s Gigantic Net Worth Proves It Pays to Be Funny in Hollywood

Emma Stone's career has been nothing short of stunning. From her breakout role in the 2007 comedy Superbad and her stint as Mia in La La Land to her recent award-winning role as Bella Baxter in Poor Things, she's an undeniable talent. But before she was the multiple-Oscar-winning star she is today, Stone was just like any other aspiring actor trying to find her way in Hollywood. 

“I had a casting director, Allison Jones, she called me in for a bunch of things in those three years between 15 and 18 when I was auditioning all the time," she said in a 2021 interview with The Denver Post. "I’d go in to network for a series and not get it,” she recounted. Jones would call her in for something else she wouldn’t get.

“Then she called me on a Friday and asked me to come in on a Saturday when no one else was coming in. But she had a feeling about something. She put me on tape for Superbad, which ended up being my first movie.”

Since her breakout role, Stone has gone on to do some pretty great (and very funny) movies. Below we dive into her net worth and the career that made her the A-lister she is today. 

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Emma Stone's Net Worth

Emma Stone has an estimated net worth of around $40 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. While this is an unconfirmed number, Stone's jaw-dropping net worth most likely comes from her many movie parts, from her lead role in Easy A to her other performances in movies like Superbad, The House Bunny, The Help, Crazy, Stupid, Love, and La La Land.

Emma Stone's Noteworthy Career in Hollywood

While most people first started to recognize Stone after her role in Superbad, her acting career started several years before. Prior to her years as a well-known celebrity, she spent years as a supporting actor in television series like Medium, Malcolm in the Middle, and Lucky Louie. 

Superbad

In 2007, she landed her first major role in Superbad, playing Jules, a high school senior Seth (Jonah Hill) meets in economics class. After they're partnered up in class, Jules invites Seth to her blowout party where he promises to bring alcohol. While Stone didn't finish high school, she was just 17 years old when the film was produced. 

While most kids her age were going to parties like the ones she pretended to be attending in movies, her graduation came on the big screen.

“I did Superbad in what would’ve been my senior year,” she told Vanity Fair. “I was playing a senior, and had I graduated I would’ve missed that opportunity, and had I missed that opportunity I wouldn’t be here right now.”

Easy A

After her role in Superbad, Stone began to receive notice around Hollywood. Soon after, she landed roles in films like House Bunny, Marmaduke, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, and Zombieland, before starring as the lead character in Easy A. In the film, Stone plays Olive, a straitlaced teen who decides to spice up her life by lying about losing her virginity. Unfortunately for her, the little secret spreads all over campus and ends up changing her identity altogether. 

The filming of the movie took a toll on Stone, too. "Oh, God, I was a wreck during that," she explained in a 2012 interview with Interview magazine. "I didn’t sleep much. I remember the day I wrapped Easy A. Getting into the car as the sun was coming up because it had been a night shoot... It felt like a house had been lifted off of me. I felt a great deal of pressure making that movie, because in my personal life at the time, too, things were just... It was like a hurricane. I’ve still never seen it."

While Stone isn't exactly ecstatic about her part in the movie (hence the reason she's never watched it), she did win a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, landed several nominations for the BAFTA Rising Star Award, and received an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance.

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Rom-Com Era

After Easy A, Stone's career really took off. Just a year after she played Olive, she tried her hand in several of 2011's most coveted romantic comedies. First in Friends With Benefits alongside Justin Timberlake and Mia Kunis, where she plays Timberlake's temporary love interest. 

Right after that, she starred in Crazy, Stupid, Love—a dizzying romantic comedy starring Steve Carrell, Julianne Moore, and Ryan Gosling. While many people count that as one of their favorite rom-coms, Stone had an experience similar to her reaction to Easy A.

"I was really in love with that script, but I put so much pressure on myself," she said in an interview with Variety. "I was 20, and while we were shooting it, I was just going nuts and was like, this whole thing could fail. It felt like it had to be well-calibrated throughout, and it was the first time that I ever had to rely on myself to be able to carry all of that."

La La Land

After Crazy, Stupid, Love wrapped, Stone starred in a handful of other notable movies such as The Help, playing Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a wide-eyed Ole Miss graduate with ambitions of becoming a great novelist. Other films included The Amazing Spider-Man, Gangster Squad, Magic in the Moonlight, and Irrational Man before Stone starred in the musical romantic comedy La La Land. 

In the movie, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love—play the piano and act. But as both gain more and more success their love starts to fall apart. While the film didn't exactly have a happy ending, it was a pure example of following your dreams no matter what. 

"I told myself when I was pretty young that I wasn’t going to be able to do musicals, even though I wanted to do them so badly," Stone said in an interview with Time. "I did a lot of youth theater growing up and did musicals and took voice lessons and dance lessons, and I just wasn’t—I’m not a great, great singer, and I’m not a great, great dancer, so my dream has been to do musicals on Broadway, but [I thought] I just wouldn’t be able to do it—I didn’t have the stamina or the voice. The great thing about La La Land was that [director] Damien [Chazelle] was very adamant that even though he wanted people that had a bit of musical ability—that were able to dance and sing—it didn’t need to be technically perfect."

Having won her first Oscar for La La Land (the second would be for Poor Things), it's fair to say that if Stone wasn't perfect in the movie, well, she certainly charmed nonetheless.

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