Scarlett Johansson
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Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress, model and singer. Johansson made her film debut in North (1994) and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo (1996). She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Ghost World (2001). She shifted to adult roles with her performances in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Both films earned her Golden Globe Award nominations.


 
A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) earned Johansson a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Johansson garnered another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress with her role in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005). She went on to star in two further Allen movies: Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Johansson has appeared in other successful films, such as Christopher Nolan's The Prestige (2006). Johansson played popular Marvel comic book character Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in the films Iron Man 2 (2010) and The Avengers (2012).
 
The 2010 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge gave Johansson some of her best reviews for her acting, and she received a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. As a singer, Johansson has released two albums, Anywhere I Lay My Head and Break Up. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Johansson is considered as one of Hollywood's modern female sex symbols and is often listed as one of the most beautiful women in the world.
 
Early life
Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City on November 22, 1984.Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect originally from Copenhagen, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx.Melanie's ancestors emigrated to New York from Minsk, Belarus.She has an older sister, Vanessa, who is an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (who appeared with her in the film Manny & Lo); and an older half-brother, Christian, from her father's first marriage.
 
Johansson grew up in a household with "little money",and with a mother who was a "film buff".She and her brother, Hunter, attended P.S. 41 in upper-middle-class Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan for elementary school.Johansson began her theatrical training by attending and graduating from Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2002.
 
2008–present
In 2008, she starred in The Other Boleyn Girl, opposite Natalie Portman and Eric Bana, a film which garnered mixed reviews.Writing for Rolling Stone, Pete Travers criticized the film for "[moving] in frustrating herks and jerks", but was more positive in his assessment of Johansson and Portman, and wrote, "What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough core of intelligence and wit, swinging the film's sixteenth-century protofeminist issues handily into this one."Variety credited the cast as "almost flawless ... at the top of its game", citing "Johansson's quieter Mary ... as the pic's emotional center, her tender love story with the conflicted monarch evoking the only genuine feelings on display."
 
She filmed her third Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in Spain, appearing opposite Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. The film was one of Allen's most profitable and appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Overall, the film received generally favorable reviews and brought co-star Cruz numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Johansson was described as being "open and malleable" and "serves as a nice contrast to the other actors".Johansson played Silken Floss, a femme fatale and ally of Samuel L. Jackson's villain The Octopus, in Frank Miller's film noir, comedy adaptation of The Spirit. The film, described as "a great-looking movie with an awkward balance of pulp noir and campy self-awareness" and "style without substance, style whirling in a senseless void", received mostly poor reviews.
 
Johansson appeared in the role of Anna, a yoga instructor, in the 2009 ensemble cast of He's Just Not That Into You, with Jennifer Connelly, Bradley Cooper, Drew Barrymore and Kevin Connolly. The film was a box office success but only gained average critical reception.The San Francisco Chronicle review notes, "The film never soars, but it never flags" yet lauds Johansson, saying, "She has become a deft comic actress."The Los Angeles Times calls the film an "anti-romantic romantic comedy" and cites the scenario in which Johansson appears with Jennifer Connelly and Bradley Cooper as having "more meat than others", making it "one of the best."The Baltimore Sun criticized the film, saying, "[It] stumbles somewhat when it tries to get serious", but praised Johansson for "proving she doesn't need Woody Allen to be funny."
 
In March 2009, Johansson signed on to play Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. The Black Widow in Iron Man 2 after a scheduling conflict forced Emily Blunt to drop out of the part.The film, released in May 2010, was directed by Jon Favreau and also starred Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Rockwell. Appearing at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, 2009, Johansson joked about her audition for the film, saying it consisted of "a couple of deep knee bends and lunges", but Favreau credited her with performing her own stunts: "All the fighting and wire work is her own. She worked really hard and it shows on the screen."Iron Man 2 was a box office success and received mostly positive reviews from critcs.In 2011, Johansson played the role of Kelly, a zookeeper in the family film We Bought a Zoo. The film gained mainly favorable reviews.Calvin Wilson of St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that Johansson "brings to Kelly just the right blend of spunkiness and hard-won maturity." Johansson reprised the role of Natasha Romanoff in Marvel's The Avengers in 2012. The Avengers received positive reviews and was highly successful at the box office, becoming the third highest-grossing film both in the United States and worldwide.Johansson in particular was credited with making her character "steely, vulnerable, cunning and funny, often in the same breath"and for providing the most human moments in the film and showing "the challenge of being a female superhero in a comic-book universe—and an empowered woman in the real world."
 
In November 2010, Johansson has been cast in the film adaptation of Michel Faber's novel Under the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer.In November 2011, it was reported she plans to make her directional debut by adapting Truman Capote's novel, Summer Crossing whose screenplay will be written by playwright Tristine Skyler.In early March 2012, it was announced that Johansson had been cast as Janet Leigh in the Sacha Gervasi-directed film Hitchcock, a behind-the-scenes drama about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.Released in November 2012, Hitchcock received mixed to positive reviews.Roger Ebert wrote that Johansson "as Janet Leigh, doesn't look a lot like the original but projects her spunk, intelligence and sense of humor."
 
Johansson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 2, 2012 located at 6931 Hollywood Blvd., in front of Madame Tussauds Hollywood wax museum.In October 2012, it was reported that Johansson would reprise her role as Black Widow in the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
 
Theatre
Johansson made her first stage appearance in the Off Broadway play Sophistry.In 2009, Johansson made her debut on Broadway, as Catherine Carbone in the drama A View from the Bridge, written by Arthur Miller and directed by Gregory Mosher. Liev Schreiber played opposite her.Johansson won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her role in the play.
 
Johansson will star as Maggie in a Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof beginning January 17, 2013.
 
Endorsements
Johansson has appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, L'Oréal, Louis Vuitton and has been the face of Spanish brand Mango since 2009.After appearing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Johansson was announced as the face of the new Dolce & Gabbana make-up collection in early 2009. She made a personal appearance at the London store, Selfridges, on July 31, 2009, to help launch and promote the line.Johansson was also the first Hollywood celebrity to become an ambassador for a Champagne House, after she became the spokesperson for Moët & Chandon and appeared in various advertisements and events for the brand.
 
Music career
In 2005, Johansson was considered for the role of Maria in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End revival of The Sound of Music, though the role ultimately went to newcomer Connie Fisher after she won BBC's talent show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Released on May 8, 2006, Johansson sang the track "Summertime" for Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars, a non-profit collection of songs recorded by Hollywood actors. She performed with The Jesus and Mary Chain for a special Coachella Reunion Show in Indio, California in April 2007.
 
In 2007, she appeared as the leading lady in Justin Timberlake's music video, for "What Goes Around... Comes Around", which was nominated in August 2007 for video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards.
 
In mid-2007, Johansson spent about a month in Maurice, Louisiana recording an album at Dockside Studio, a rural 12-acre (49,000 m2) complex.The album, consisting of one original song and ten cover versions of Tom Waits songs,was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and features David Bowie,members from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Celebration.Released on May 20, 2008, it was entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head.Reviews of the album were mixed, or average.Spin commented, "There's nothing particularly compelling about Scarlett Johansson's singing."Conversely, some critics found it to be "surprisingly alluring","a bravely eccentric selection", and "a brilliant album" with "ghostly magic".The album was named the "23rd best album of 2008" by NME and peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and No.126 on the Billboard 200 chart.Of her album, Johansson said, "I had this golden opportunity to record and thought I would do maybe an album of standards, because I'm not a songwriter. I'm a vocalist."Johansson said for her recording she "wanted to have space and [she] wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that."Johansson said in an interview that she started listening to Tom Waits when she was 11 or 12.Of Tom Waits, Johansson said in an interview, "His melodies are so beautiful, his voice is so distinct and I had my own way of doing Tom Waits songs."In December 2008, MTV reported Johansson planned to follow-up Anywhere I Lay My Head with an album of all original music, saying, "I don't think I'd do covers, so it'd be a project that I have to dedicate myself to. I feel like that's something for the future."
 
In 2009, Johansson covered Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" for the soundtrack of He's Just Not That Into You.Released on September 8, 2009, she and singer/songwriter Pete Yorn recorded a collaborative album, Break Up, inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot.
 
In 2010, Steel Train released Terrible Thrills Vol. 1, which includes their favourite female artists singing songs from their self-titled album. Johansson is the first artist on the album, singing "Bullet".


 
In 2011, Johansson sang "One Whole Hour" for the soundtrack of the documentary film Wretches & Jabberers.
 
Sex symbol
Johansson has frequently appeared in published lists of the sexiest women in the world. She has been described as a "peerless sex symbol" by Channel 4,Johansson appeared on the cover of the March 2006 issue of Vanity Fair in the nude alongside actress Keira Knightley and fashion designer Tom Ford. Maxim named Johansson No. 6 in their Hot 100 Issue in 2006, No. 3 in 2007,No. 2 in 2008, No. 34 in 2009,No. 14 in 2010,and No. 14 in 2011.In November 2006, Johansson was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire.In February 2007, she was named the "Sexiest Celebrity" of the year by Playboy.FHM has regularly ranked her as one of their 100 sexiest famous women since 2005, and she has also appeared on Askmen lists for the 99 'most desirable' celebrity women, based on looks and success.During the filming of Match Point, director Woody Allen described Johansson as "sexually overwhelming", saying that he found it "very hard to be extra witty around a sexually overwhelming, beautiful young woman who is wittier than you are." In 2010, GQ named Johansson its Babe of the Year. In 2011, Men's Health named her one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time", ranking her at No. 12.
 
Personal life
Johansson rarely discusses her personal life with the press, saying, "It's nice to have everybody not know your business."
 
In high school, she dated Jack Antonoff (2001–02).
 
Johansson began dating Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds in 2007,and in May 2008, it was announced that the two were engaged.On September 27, 2008, the couple married in a quiet ceremony near Tofino, British Columbia.They purchased a $2.8 million home together near Los Angeles, California.On December 14, 2010, Reynolds and Johansson announced that they had separated.Their divorce was finalized on July 1, 2011.
 
She celebrates a "little of both" Christmas and Hanukkah,and has described herself as Jewish.
 
Johansson rejects the "ScarJo" nickname some have used in reference to her, calling it "awful".
 
On September 14, 2011, the FBI announced it was investigating the alleged hacking of Johansson's cell phone and the dissemination of nude photographs of her.Johansson stated that the photos were sent to her then-husband, Ryan Reynolds, three years prior to the incident.As a result of the investigation, Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Florida pled guilty to computer hacking. In addition to a prison sentence, prosecutors are requesting that Johansson receive about $66,000 in restitution.

Filmography
Film

Title Year Role Notes
North 1994 Laura Nelson Credited as Scarlett Johanssen
Just Cause 1995 Kate Armstrong  
Manny & Lo 1996 Amanda  
If Lucy Fell 1996 Emily  
Home Alone 3 1997 Molly Pruitt  
Fall 1997 Little girl  
Horse Whisperer, TheThe Horse Whisperer 1998 Grace MacLean  
My Brother the Pig 1999 Kathy Caldwell  
Man Who Wasn't There, TheThe Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Rachael 'Birdy' Abundas  
Ghost World 2001 Rebecca  
An American Rhapsody 2001 Zsuzsi/Suzanne Sandor (at 15)  
Eight Legged Freaks 2002 Ashley Parker  
Lost in Translation 2003 Charlotte  
Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003 Griet  
Love Song for Bobby Long, AA Love Song for Bobby Long 2004 Pursy Will  
Good Woman, AA Good Woman 2004 Meg Windermere  
SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, TheThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2004 Mindy (voice)  
Perfect Score, TheThe Perfect Score 2004 Francesca Curtis  
In Good Company 2004 Alex Foreman  
Island, TheThe Island 2005 Jordan Two Delta/Sarah Jordan  
Match Point 2005 Nola Rice  
Scoop 2006 Sondra Pransky  
Black Dahlia, TheThe Black Dahlia 2006 Katherine 'Kay' Lake  
Prestige, TheThe Prestige 2006 Olivia Wenscombe  
Nanny Diaries, TheThe Nanny Diaries 2007 Annie Braddock  
Other Boleyn Girl, TheThe Other Boleyn Girl 2008 Mary Boleyn  
Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008 Cristina  
Spirit, TheThe Spirit 2008 Silken Floss  
He's Just Not That into You 2009 Anna  
Iron Man 2 2010 Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow/Natalie Rushman  
We Bought a Zoo 2011 Kelly  
Avengers, TheThe Avengers 2012 Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow  
Hitchcock 2012 Janet Leigh  
Under the Skin 2013 Laura Post-production
Don Jon's Addiction 2013   In Production

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