What is Emma Stone’s IQ?
Two Best Actress Oscars, a high school left after one semester, and a stated dislike of the word “smart” — but no IQ test and no number to audit.
Emma Stone’s IQ is not known: no test result has been published, and no figure for her traces to a test. The documented record is two Academy Awards for Best Actress (La La Land, 2017; Poor Things, 2024) and a high school left after one semester. This site’s estimate is 115–130, an inference from that record, not a score.
Emma Stone’s estimated IQ
- Was a freshman at Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girls Catholic high school, and dropped out after one semester to act; she was then homeschooled for two years and moved to Los Angeles with her mother in January 2004, according to Wikipedia. No degree or school test result is on record, and the same article reports that she said her controlling nature led her to get straight A’s.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for La La Land at the 89th Academy Awards (February 26, 2017) and for Poor Things at the 96th (March 10, 2024), by the Academy’s own ceremony pages; Wikipedia adds the Volpi Cup for La La Land (Venice, 2016) and the BAFTA and Golden Globe for both films.
- Is credited by the Academy as a producer of Poor Things (Best Picture nominee, 96th) and of Bugonia (Best Picture nominee, 98th, March 15, 2026), where she was also a Best Actress nominee; Wikipedia calls her the first woman nominated as both producer and actress for each of two different films.
- Was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Birdman (87th, February 22, 2015) and The Favourite (91st, February 24, 2019), which brings her to seven Oscar nominations and two wins, each confirmed on the Academy’s ceremony pages.
No IQ test result for Stone has been published. Best Actress wins reward performance and producing credits reward judgment about projects, not reasoning-test ability, and she has no degree or school test result to anchor on; the straight-A remark is her own recollection as Wikipedia reports it. This range is a soft inference that could be too high or too low.
- Born
- November 6, 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona
- Education
- Xavier College Preparatory (all-girls Catholic high school), freshman year, left after one semester; homeschooled two years; no college degree on record
- Known for
- Superbad, Easy A, The Help, The Amazing Spider-Man, Birdman, La La Land, The Favourite, Poor Things, Bugonia
- Academy Awards
- Two wins, both Best Actress: La La Land (February 26, 2017) and Poor Things (March 10, 2024)
- Oscar nominations
- Seven in all: Best Supporting Actress for Birdman (2015) and The Favourite (2019), Best Actress three times, Best Picture twice as a producer (Poor Things, Bugonia)
- Other awards
- Volpi Cup (Venice, 2016); BAFTA and Golden Globe for La La Land and Poor Things, per Wikipedia
- Production company
- Fruit Tree, founded 2020 with Dave McCary
- Documented IQ test
- None on record
What an IQ of 115–130 actually means
Set the claim aside for a moment. If someone genuinely scored in this range, here is what that would represent.
| Score range | Classification | Share of people | What it indicates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 – 114 | Average | ~68% | The range most people fall into. |
| 115 – 129 | Above average | ~13.6% | Roughly one person in seven. |
| 130 – 144 | Gifted | ~2% | The threshold most high-IQ societies use. |
| Above 144 | Highly gifted | ~0.1% | Figures above this range are extrapolated from the curve rather than measured. |
Percentages are approximate and describe a normal distribution. The same number means different things on tests with different standard deviations.
Thirty questions gives you a measured position on this exact scale — your score, your percentile and the ability breakdown behind it.
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Emily Jean Stone, known as Emma, was born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was a freshman at Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girls Catholic high school, and dropped out after one semester to become an actress, according to Wikipedia. She was homeschooled for two years, appeared in 16 productions at Phoenix’s Valley Youth Theatre, and made a PowerPoint titled “Project Hollywood” to persuade her parents. In January 2004 she moved with her mother to Los Angeles.
Wikipedia says Stone did not like school but that her controlling nature led her to get straight A’s; we found no school record. School results and IQ are only loosely linked, so grades she reports are not a test. Her feature film debut was Superbad (2007), her first lead was Easy A (2010) and she played Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). In July 2012 she told the Georgia Straight that making that film left her so interested in science that she had decided to take a biology class.
Her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress in Birdman, came at the 87th Academy Awards on February 22, 2015. From November 2014 to February 2015 she also played Sally Bowles in the Cabaret revival. She won the Volpi Cup for La La Land at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and the Best Actress Oscar on February 26, 2017. A nomination for The Favourite followed on February 24, 2019. Wikipedia lists BAFTA and Golden Globe wins for La La Land and Poor Things.
In 2020 she and Dave McCary founded the production company Fruit Tree, according to Wikipedia. The Academy credits her among the producers of Poor Things, which was nominated for Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, 2024, the night she won Best Actress for it. At the 98th, on March 15, 2026, she was a Best Actress nominee for Bugonia, released October 24, 2025, and a credited producer of that Best Picture nominee. As of November 2026, Bugonia is her most recent nominated film.
By Elora Mercer, Celebrity Research WriterFigures checked by Leon Falkner, Data & Research AnalystReviewed by Aarav Vardhan, Editor-in-Chief · Last reviewed November 2026
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Emma Stone: the documented record
The estimate above rests on this record. Every entry here is a matter of public fact, which is more than can be said for the number itself.
- 1988Born November 6 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- 2004In January, moves with her mother to Los Angeles to pursue acting, having left Xavier College Preparatory after one semester and pitched her parents a PowerPoint titled “Project Hollywood.”
- 2007Makes her feature film debut in Superbad.
- 2010Plays her first leading role in Easy A, which earns a Golden Globe nomination.
- 2012Plays Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man; a Georgia Straight interview published July 4 quotes her saying she dislikes the word “smart.”
- 2015Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Birdman at the 87th Academy Awards, February 22.
- 2017Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for La La Land at the 89th Academy Awards on February 26, after winning the Volpi Cup at Venice in 2016.
- 2019Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Favourite at the 91st Academy Awards, February 24.
- 2020Founds the production company Fruit Tree with Dave McCary, according to Wikipedia.
- 2024Wins Best Actress for Poor Things at the 96th Academy Awards on March 10; the film is also nominated for Best Picture, with Stone among its credited producers.
- 2026Nominated for Best Actress and, as a producer, Best Picture for Bugonia at the 98th Academy Awards, March 15.
Why no figure circulates
Following a claim back to its first appearance is the part almost nobody does — and it is what most people are actually asking.
Emma Stone’s IQ score has never been published, and no figure for it traces to a test. No school, testing body or interviewer has released a number, and any exact figure is speculation unless it names a test, conditions, a date and a primary source. Few celebrity numbers meet that bar; our explainer on where celebrity IQ numbers come from shows how they usually travel.
That leaves the record. Stone’s public profile rests on performance awards and producing credits, not on test scores or academic honors, so there is no figure to audit and the usual pattern, a high number traced back to no test, does not apply. The mistake to avoid is inventing one. What can be said is what her career documents, and that is what the estimate on this page rests on.
Stone has commented on the label herself. In a Georgia Straight interview published July 4, 2012, she said of the word “smart,” “I don’t like the word because I don’t know what it means.” In the same piece she recalled being told she needed to be a college graduate when she asked about an internship. Those are opinions about a word and a requirement, not a score, and a genius-level IQ is nothing her record shows.
Among actors here, 115–130 puts Stone level with Brad Pitt, whose profile also pairs acting awards with producing credits and no test, and below Natalie Portman’s 135–145 and Meryl Streep’s 125–140. Both Portman and Streep were Best Actress nominees at the 89th Academy Awards, where Stone won. That shared ceremony compares recognition, not scores; an IQ near 125 sits inside her range.
How we read a number →Lists Emma Stone as the winner of Actress in a Leading Role for La La Land; the other nominees were Isabelle Huppert, Ruth Negga, Natalie Portman and Meryl Streep.
Lists Stone as the winner of Actress in a Leading Role for Poor Things, and Poor Things among the Best Picture nominees with Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone credited as producers.
Lists Stone as a nominee for Actress in a Leading Role for Bugonia and credits her as a producer of Bugonia, a Best Picture nominee.
Lists Stone as a nominee for Actress in a Supporting Role for Birdman and for The Favourite.
Quotes Stone on the word “smart,” on being told she needed to be a college graduate to intern, and on deciding to take a biology class after making the film.
Used for her birth date and place, schooling (Xavier College Preparatory, homeschooling, “Project Hollywood,” the January 2004 move), early roles, the Volpi Cup, BAFTA and Golden Globe wins, Fruit Tree and the producer-and-actress nomination record. Orientation only; the Oscar facts rest on the Academy pages above.
Describes the entry as an American actress born 1988, gives the birth date 1988-11-06 and dates Academy Award entries 2017-02-26 and 2024-03-10, matching the Academy’s ceremony pages.
No school, testing-body, clinical or media record of an administered test was found, and Stone has not stated a number herself in any source opened.
The sources behind our estimate
The figures that circulate for Emma Stone, what we were able to confirm, and where the two diverge.
No IQ figure for Emma Stone turned up: no school, testing body or interviewer has released one, and the celebrity-IQ list pages checked have no entry for her.
We found no published IQ test result for Emma Stone. She has not stated a number herself in any source we opened, and the part of her Wikipedia biography we read mentions no IQ, Mensa or test.
No circulating figure exists to compare against, so the spread is only this site’s range, and it rests on awards and credits alone.
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Emma Stone — frequently asked
What is Emma Stone’s IQ?
Emma Stone’s IQ is not known, because no test result has ever been published and no figure for her traces to a test. This site’s estimated IQ level for her is 115–130, inferred from two Best Actress Oscars and producing credits. It is an inference from achievement, not a score.
Is Emma Stone smart?
By her record she is a highly accomplished actress and producer, but no IQ test measures how smart she is. She has won two Best Actress Oscars and been a Best Picture nominee as a producer twice. In 2012 she told the Georgia Straight she dislikes the word “smart” because she does not know what it means.
Did Emma Stone take an IQ test?
There is no public record that she has. No professionally administered IQ score has been released for her, and the part of her Wikipedia biography we read mentions no IQ test or Mensa membership. She has not stated a number in any source we opened.
Has Emma Stone ever said what her IQ is?
No. She has not stated an IQ number in any source we opened, and no test result has been published. What she has said is about the word itself: in a Georgia Straight interview published July 4, 2012, she said, “I don’t like the word because I don’t know what it means.”
Did Emma Stone graduate from high school or college?
No diploma or degree appears in the sources we read. She was a freshman at Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girls Catholic high school, and dropped out after one semester to act, then was homeschooled for two years, per Wikipedia. In a 2012 interview she said, “I didn’t graduate college.”
How many Oscars has Emma Stone won?
Two, both for Best Actress: La La Land at the 89th Academy Awards on February 26, 2017, and Poor Things at the 96th on March 10, 2024. She has seven Oscar nominations in all, including Best Picture nominations as a producer of Poor Things and Bugonia (98th, March 15, 2026).
How does Emma Stone’s estimated IQ compare with Natalie Portman’s?
This site estimates Stone at 115–130 and Natalie Portman at 135–145, and both numbers are inferences from achievement rather than test results. The two were Best Actress nominees at the 89th Academy Awards (February 26, 2017), where Stone won. The gap reflects what each record documents, not a measured difference.
How does my IQ compare with Emma Stone?
You can find out in about fifteen minutes. The IQ Metrics assessment is 30 questions, scored on the same 100-mean scale used throughout this page, so your result and the estimate above are at least expressed in the same units — one measured, one inferred. Once you have a number, the leaderboard shows where it would sit, and how we score and norm it explains the benchmarking.
Where does this estimate come from?
From the documented record rather than a test — the method is named above and set out in full under how we read a number. Compare it against the other actors profiles, starting with Natalie Portman.
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