Julia Sarah Stone (born November 24, 1997 in Vancouver, Canada) is a Canadian actress. She began studying theater at the age of six, and appeared in a number of school productions over the following years. After posting an audition on Facebook, Stone was cast in a series of independent short films, beginning with the 2009 feature A Brush of Red. Her breakthrough role came in 2011, when she appeared in The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, for which she won a Young Artist Award. Afterward, Stone was cast in the pilot episode of The CW series Emily Owens, M.D., the third season of AMC's The Killing, and a number of Canadian-produced dramatic films. Stone chose to use her middle name professionally to avoid confusion with singer Julia Stone.
Canadian director Lindsay MacKay cast Stone in the coming-of-age drama Wet Bum (also titled Surfacing). In the tale, she plays a social outcast who finds solace in swimming and develops unexpected bonds with numerous people. While discussing the film, Stone revealed that she identified with her character's situation: "I think a lot of people have gone through something similar to what she's gone through." Stone's performances have won recognition from numerous media outlets, including Nylon magazine and The Huffington Post. In 2016, she was cast as Dana Copeland in the disaster series Aftermath. She later won the role of Eva, opposite Evan Rachel Wood, in the 2017 dramatic film A Worthy Companion.
