Scarlett
Ingrid Johansson was born in New York City. Her mother, Melanie Sloan,
is from a Jewish family from the Bronx, and her father, Karsten
Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, from Copenhagen. She has a
sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, a brother, Adrian, a
twin brother, Hunter Johansson, born three minutes after her, and a
paternal half-brother, Christian. Her grandfather was writer Ejner
Johansson.
Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother started taking
her to auditions. She made her professional acting debut at the age of
eight in the off-Broadway production of "Sophistry" with Ethan Hawke, at
New York's Playwrights Horizons. She would audition for commercials but
took rejection so hard her mother began limiting her to film tryouts.
She made her film debut at the age of nine, as John Ritter's character's
daughter in the fantasy comedy North (1994). Following minor roles in
Just Cause (1995), as the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw's
character, and If Lucy Fell (1996), she played the role of Amanda in
Manny & Lo (1996). Her performance in Manny & Lo garnered a
nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female, and
positive reviews, one noting, "[the film] grows on you, largely because
of the charm of ... Scarlett Johansson", while San Francisco Chronicle
critic Mick LaSalle commentated on her "peaceful aura", and wrote, "If
she can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, she could become
an important actress.".
After appearing in minor roles in Fall (1997) and Home Alone 3 (1997),
Johansson garnered widely spread attention for her performance in The
Horse Whisperer (1998), directed by Robert Redford, where she played
Grace MacLean, a teenager traumatized by a riding accident. She received
a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most
Promising Actress for the film. In 1999, she appeared in My Brother the
Pig (1999) and in the music video for Mandy Moore's single, "Candy".
Although the film was not a box office success, she received praise for
her breakout role in Ghost World (2001), credited with "sensitivity and
talent [that] belie her age". She was also featured in the Coen
Brothers' dark drama The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), opposite Billy Bob
Thornton and Frances McDormand. She appeared in the horror comedy Eight
Legged Freaks (2002) with David Arquette and Kari Wuhrer.
In 2003, she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, one for drama
(Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)) and one for comedy (Lost in
Translation (2003)), her breakout role, starring opposite Bill Murray,
and receiving rave reviews and a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film
Festival. Her film roles include the critically acclaimed Weitz
brothers' film In Good Company (2004), as well as starring opposite John
Travolta in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), which garnered her a
third Golden Globe Award nomination.
She dropped out of Mission: Impossible III (2006) due to scheduling
conflicts. Her next film role was in The Island (2005) alongside Ewan
McGregor which earned weak reviews from U.S. critics. After this, she
appeared in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005) and was nominated again for
a Golden Globe Award. In May 2008, she released her album "Anywhere I
Lay My Head", a collection of Tom Waits covers featuring one original
song. Also that year, she starred in Frank Miller's The Spirit (2008),
the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), and played Mary
Boleyn opposite Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008).
Since then, she has appeared as part of an ensemble cast in the romantic
comedy He's Just Not That Into You (2009), the action superhero film
Iron Man 2 (2010), the comedy-drama We Bought a Zoo (2011) and started
as the original scream queen, Janet Leigh, in Hitchcock (2012). She then
played her character, Black Widow, in the blockbuster action films The
Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers:
Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Avengers:
Infinity War (2018), and also headlined the science-fiction thriller
Lucy (2014), a box office success. With more than a decade of work
already under her belt, Scarlett has proven to be one of Hollywood's
most talented young actresses.
Scarlett and Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds were engaged in May 2008 and
married in September of that year. In 2010, the couple announced their
separation, and subsequently divorced a year later. In 2013, she became
engaged to French journalist Romain Dauriac, the couple married a year
later. In January 2017, the couple announced their separation, and
subsequently divorced in March of that year. They have one daughter,
Rose Dorothy Dauriac (born 2014)
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