{"id":2110586,"date":"2025-10-23T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2110586"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:59:30","slug":"emma-stone-reveals-beautiful-stage-name-she-briefly-used-as-a-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/emma-stone-reveals-beautiful-stage-name-she-briefly-used-as-a-teenager\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone reveals &#8216;beautiful&#8217; stage name she briefly used as a teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Emma Stone used to go by a completely different name when she was first starting out in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLa La Land\u201d actress \u2014 born Emily Stone \u2014 revealed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wpjQjusb_BY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d <\/a>that she used the moniker Riley for several months. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\">\u201cI actually adopted a stage name for, I would say, like six months,\u201d she shared. \u201cBecause the Screen Actors Guild, it\u2019s like the Business Bureau. You can only have one person with that name.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Emma Stone went by the stage name Riley Stone for several months when she first started out as an actress.  <span class=\"credit\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Stone revealed the moniker on Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Stone, 36, recalled how there was already someone named Emma Stone who was registered with SAG. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\">\u201cI was 16, and I decided I wanted to be Riley for like six months,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo I was Riley Stone, which is a beautiful name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Stone initially liked the new title, she eventually found that Riley was too dissimilar from her actual identity. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100% \" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/7243f1477b3245f2f0745dd957e58dbc\" scrolling=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"\" allow=\"camera; fullscreen;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI was 16, and I decided I wanted to be Riley for like six months,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I was Riley Stone, which is a beautiful name.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">ASPN \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actress, born Emily Stone, said there was already someone named Emma Stone registered with SAG.  <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\">\u201cI did an episode, like a guest part, on\u00a0\u2018Malcolm in the Middle,\u2019 and they kept going like, \u2018Riley! Riley!\u2019 And I had no idea who they were talking to. Truly,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\">\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018I cannot be Riley.\u2019 Like, it\u2019s such a\u2026 It came out of nowhere. I was just like, \u2018Cool name. I\u2019ll just be Riley,&#8217;\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Stone said that she eventually changed her name back to Emma because it was \u201cclose enough\u201d to Emily. <\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Stone revealed that she picked the name Emma<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/11\/09\/emma-stone-changed-her-name-to-be-like-spice-girls-baby-spice\/\"> because she loved Spice Girls member Emma Bunton.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Stone was called Riley while appearing on an episode of \u201cMalcolm in the Middle.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">20th Century Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The \u201cLa La Land\u201d star said she changed her name to Emma because it was more similar to her birth name, Emily.  <span class=\"credit\">Johns PKI \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo growing up, I was super blonde, and my real name is Emily but I wanted to be called Emma because of Baby Spice and guess what? Now I am, so that\u2019s really messed up,\u201d Stone joked on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d\u00a0at the time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t necessarily because of her, but yes, in second grade did I go up to the teacher on the first day and ask her to call me Emma? Yes, I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Stone admitted that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/04\/25\/entertainment\/emma-stone-would-like-to-be-called-by-her-real-name-from-now-on\/\">she would like to be referred to by her birth name<\/a> \u2014 but later clarified that she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/06\/20\/entertainment\/emma-stone-clarifies-shes-fine-with-not-being-called-by-her-birth-name-emily\/\">was fine being called Emma. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Stone used to go by a completely different name when she was first starting out in Hollywood. The \u201cLa La Land\u201d actress \u2014 born Emily Stone \u2014 revealed on Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d that she used the moniker Riley for several months. \u201cI actually adopted a stage name for, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2110587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[344976,24003,310048,21741,368211,21912],"class_list":["post-2110586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-emma-stone","tag-entertainment","tag-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Emma-Stone-reveals-beautiful-stage-name-she-briefly-used-as.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110588,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110586\/revisions\/2110588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}