Birth NameScarlett Johansson
Birth Date
11/22/1984
Birthplace
New York, New York
Claim to Fame (or Shame)
It's good we have Scarlett, because gals need a reason to feel sexually inadequate. The girl who resuscitated Woody Allen's creative life in Match Point is sophisticated and hot. Lost in Translation and In Good Company wouldn't have clicked without her subtle charm. You won't find Scarlett (or her boyfriend, Josh Hartnett) dancing on tables at Hyde like some other young Hollywood denizens. Let's face it. Until she gets drunk in public and stars in Date Movie 4--yeah right--we just have to deal.
Credits
z` Movies, 2 TV appearances, 5 awards
Family
Brother: Adrian Johansson
Brother: Hunter Johansson
twin of Scarlett; had bit part in "Manny & Lo"
Father: Karsten Johansson
had bit role in "Manny & Lo"
Mother: Melanie Johansson
had bit role in "Manny & Lo"
Sister: Vanessa Johansson
had bit role in "Manny & Lo"
Hookups
Companion: Benicio Del Toro
rumored to have had a sexual liaison in an elevator at the 2005 Oscars; Johansson denied the incident occured
Companion: Jared Leto
dated in 2004; no longer together
Companion: Josh Hartnett
met while filming "The Black Dahlia" in Bulgaria in 2005; reportedly split in November 2006
Companion: Ryan Reynolds
reportedly began dating Summer 2007
Companion: Patrick Wilson
dated for more than a year; no longer together
Notes
"I actually started acting because I wanted to be in musicals when I was a little girl. That's where my dream career was going to be when I was 8 years old, like the young Cosette in "Les Miserables." Then I started making films and I never ended up doing musical theater. Of course, by the time I turned 13, I kind of buried that part of myself."---Johansson to CNN.com, August 27, 2007.
"I can't stand those articles where people spill their life story. After a while I feel like I know more about them than their best friend does, and that's weird."---Scarlett Johansson, to InStyle magazine, October 2006.
"I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice getting a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work."---Johansson to Movieline's Hollywood Life February 2004
"I feel so fortunate to be able to work with directors whose movies my mother waited on line for two hours to see. Here I am, 20 years old, getting to work with all these people who are an inspiration to my generation and the generation before."---Johansson quoted to Interview magazine, November 2005.
"Look, I'm the kind of person that doesn't put up with bullshit. Does that make me uncommonly mature? I don't know. I think you mature with experiences, and how other people view you and your maturity really depends upon when you have those experiences ... I think I was born with a great awareness of my surroundings and an awareness of other people. I know when I really connect with somebody and I know when I feel like I've known somebody before. And I absolutely know what it feels like to meet an old soul, to know an old soul. So for my mom and Bob Redford, two people I really respect, to say that about me, well, that's a huge compliment."
"Maybe years from now, when I'm having my midlife crisis and need to find myself, I'll search deep down inside and find that old soul of mine and dust it off. But for now I'm enjoying getting to know all about my young soul."---Scarlett Johansson on her perceived maturity to Interview, July 2001.
"People just don't type cast me," she says. "I've played so many different roles, from a high school student, to a wife, to a 17th-century Dutch maid, to trailer trash. For a while, I thought I might get typecast as the bitter, shitty teenager who's always sarcastic, but luckily that was a fear that was never a reality."---Johansson to Empire, March 2005.
"There's cute, there's pretty, there's hot and there's beautiful. Scarlett Johansson falls in the beautiful bracket."---Frankie Muniz quoted in People May 10, 2004
"Unfortunately, because it's adults writing these scripts, it's tough. The problem is that adults portray kids like mall-rats, and not seriously; after all, we're just like little adults and people with feelings too. Kids and teenagers just aren't being portrayed with any real depth."---Johansson on the teen actor's search for intelligent roles, to Andrew Urban at UrbanCinefile.com, July 1998.
Describing her desire for a show business career, a three-year old Johansson reportedly told her mother she "had a fire in [her] brain to act."
In 2007 Johansson was named Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Johansson was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People for 2004
Tops FHM magazine's April 2006 list of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World"
Milestones
(1996) Acted in Eric Schaeffer's romantic comedy "If Lucy Fell"
(1995) Appeared in pilot episode of "John Grisham's 'The Client'" (CBS)
(2002) Battled giant spiders in the sci-fi comedy "Arac Attack"
(2004) Became the official face of Calvin Klein's new fragrance
(2006) Cast as Aaron Eckhart's wife in "The Black Dahlia," Brian De Palma's adaptation of James Ellroy's classic noir novel
Cast as Mary Boleyn in "The Other Boleyn Girl" opposite Natalie Portman (lensing in 2006)
(2007) Cast as the nanny of a wealthy Manhattan household, in "The Nanny Diaries"
(2001) Co-starred as Rebecca in "Ghost World"
(2005) Co-starred opposite Ewan McGregor in the sci-fi thriller "The Island," directed by Michael Bay
(2003) Co-starred with Bill Murray in "Lost in Translation"; directed by Sofia Coppola; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress
(1994) Feature acting debut with small role in "North"
(2001) Featured as a piano-playing nymphet who catches the attention of a barber (Billy Bob Thornton) in the Coen brothers' acclaimed period noir "The Man Who Wasn't There"
(1997) Featured in "Home Alone 3"
(1998) Had pivotal role as a young girl injured in a riding accident in Robert Redford's "The Horse Whisperer"
(1993) Made Off-Broadway debut in "Sophistry" at Playwrights Horizons
(1995) Played daughter to Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw in "Just Cause"
(2006) Re-teamed with Allen for the comedy "Scoop," playing a college newspaper journalist opposite Hugh Jackman
(2005) Starred as a femme fatal in Woody Allen's "Match Point"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress
(2001) Starred as a young Hungarian girl left behind when her family emigrates to the United States in the Cold War-set drama "An American Rhapsody"
(2003) Starred in a "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as a servant girl in the 17th century; received a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a drama
(1996) Starred in the independent film "Manny & Lo"
(2004) Starred with John Travolta in "A Love Song for Bobby Long"; received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Lead Actress (Drama)
(2004) Starred with Topher Grace and Dennis Quaid in the comedy "In Good Company" directed by Paul Weitz
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