She has at all times been an actor, however she hasn’t at all times been Emma Stone.
Though the Bugonia star—who’s nominated on the Actor Awards offered by SAG-AFTRA March 1 for her function within the Yorgos Lanthimos movie—has been a part of Hollywood for over 20 years, she lately revealed she’s not completely recognized within the metropolis of Stars.
Certainly, Emma’s actual identify is Emily Stone, however she needed to change it when she registered for her SAG card at age 16.
“I really adopted a stage identify for six months,” Emma recalled on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert in October 2025. “I used to be 16, and I made a decision I wished to be Riley. For like, six months I used to be Riley Stone.”
And so, Emma, who’s Emily, grew to become Riley—however she rapidly realized that was a bit complicated.
“I did a visitor half on Malcolm within the Center,” she recalled, nodding to her 2006 look on the Frankie Muniz sitcom. “And so they stored going, ‘Riley, Riley!’ and I had no concept who they had been speaking to. Actually.”
