Emma Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. She has won two Screen Actors Guild Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone was drawn to acting as a child, and her first role onstage was in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother, and made her film debut in Superbad (2007). The 2010 teen comedy Easy A, Stone's first starring role, earned her nominations for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. This breakthrough role was followed by the commercially successful film Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and a supporting part in the critically acclaimed drama The Help (2011). The actress received wider recognition for playing Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man, and its sequel in 2014. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of a recovering drug addict in the black comedy Birdman (2014). Stone won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for playing an aspiring actress in the musical La La Land (2016).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1856:

Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot, was submitted for publication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_of_Clerical_Life

1869:

In the first official American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey, 6–4, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_football

1944:

The Hanford Atomic Facility in the US state of Washington produced its first plutonium, and it would go on to create more for almost the entire American nuclear arsenal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

1963:

Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by the military junta of General Dương Văn Minh, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Th%C6%A1

2004:

A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufton_Nervet_rail_crash

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

ballot: 1. Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote. 2. The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting. 3. The total of all the votes cast in an election. 4. (chiefly US) A list of candidates running for office; a ticket. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ballot

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Why was it everything was always so goddam complicated? Even the simplest things was so goddam complicated when you come to doing them.   --James Jones https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Jones