Scarlett Johansson
Real Name: Scarlett I. Johansson
Date of Birth: 22 November 1984
Place of birth: New York, New York, USA
Profession: Actress
Background and Beginnings:
Scarlett Johansson is one of four children born to Karsten and Melanie Johansson, and the second youngest, with her twin brother being born a mere three minutes after Scarlett. Johansson jokes those three minutes are the most important in her life.
Johansson’s unique and diverse ancestral background and make-up give her an exceptional beauty that gets her noticed.
Her Polish descendant mother, Melanie Sloan, comes from a Bronx (New York), Jewish American background; she was living in Denmark with family at the time she met her Scarlett’s Danish-born father, Karsten.
Johansson’s older sister, Vanessa (born 12 January 1980) is also an actress; her twin brother, Hunter, is also an actor.
Actress and Career Highlights:
Scarlett Johansson’s paternal grandfather was a screenwriter and a director, so it would seem that she comes by her passion for the art of acting somewhat naturally. Johansson declared that she wanted to be an actress when she was only 3 years old, and by the time she was 8 she was doing an off-Broadway production of Sophistry at New York’s Playwrights Horizon, which co-starred Ethan Hawke.
Johansson went on to attend Professional Children’s School in Manhattan, New York where she graduated in 2002. Other notable female celebrity alumni from this school include Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tara Reid, Mischa Barton, Julia Stiles and several other female celebrities.
Before her 10th birthday, Scarlett Johansson was starring in her first movie, North, released in 1994. The following year, she played Kate Capshaw’s daughter in the thriller movie, Just Cause, and had a small part in the short-lived television series The Client, based on the John Grisham novel of the same name.
After a few more movie roles, Scarlett Johansson’s career skyrocketed in 1998 when she played the trauma ridden teen Grace MacLean in Robert Redford’s critically acclaimed, The Horse Whisperer. The portrayal earned the film
