Emma Stone began her acting career with a theater group in her hometown of Pheonix, Arizona. At the age of 15, she put together a PowerPoint presentation to convince her parents to move to L.A. so she could pursue acting. Small roles in Superbad and Zombieland led to her first starring role in Easy A. In The Help, she portrays Skeeter Phelan, an aspiring writer who questions the segregation and treatment of the help.