Scarlett Johansson
On November 22, 1984, in Manhattan, New York City, Scarlett Johansson was born. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen, while her mother, Melanie Sloan, comes from a Jewish family in the Bronx. She has an actress sister named Vanessa Johansson, a brother named Adrian, a twin brother named Hunter Johansson, who was born three minutes later, and a paternal half-brother named Christian. Ejner Johansson, a writer, was her grandpa.
After her mother started taking her to auditions, Johansson started acting when she was a little girl. At age eight, she made her stage debut in an off-Broadway production of "Sophistry" starring Ethan Hawke at Playwrights Horizons in New York. She would try out for advertisements, but she took rejection so badly that her mother started only allowing her to try out for movies. As the daughter of John Ritter's character in the fantasy comedy North (1994), she made her movie debut at nine. She performed small roles in Just Cause (1995), in which she played the character's daughter, played by Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw, and in If Lucy Fell (1996) before playing Amanda in Manny & Lo (1996).
She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female for her performance in Manny & Lo, and the film received favorable reviews. Mick LaSalle, a critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, remarked on the actress' "peaceful aura" and said, "If she can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, she could become an important actress."
Born: 1984
Year active: 1994
Awards:
- Lost in Translation (2004)
- A View from the Bridge (2010)
- Alliance of Women Film Journalists (2008, 2014, 2020)
- Audie Awards (2010)
- Austin Film Critics Association (2013)
- Boston Society of Film Critics (2001, 2003)
- Chicago Film Critics Association (2005)
- César Awards (2014)
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