Scarlett Johansson:
Scarlett Johansson (born May 22. November 1984) is an American actor and singer. Johansson had her film debut in the 1994 movie North and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best actress for her performance in 1996 Manny & Lo. Johansson rose to fame with his roles in 1998 's The Horse Whisperer and 2001 of Ghost World.
They transitioned to adult roles with her appearances in the girl with a Pearl Earring and Sofia Coppola's Lost in translation, which she won a BAFTA Award, and both films earned her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003. A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long earned her a third Golden Globe Award for best actress nomination.
After an appearance on The Iceland won Johansson a fourth Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress for her role in Woody Allen's match point. She also appeared in other films by all, such as Scoop, with Hugh Jackman and all, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in addition to Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall. Scarlett Johansson starred in films such as Christopher Nolan Prestige and summer blockbuster iron man 2. A role in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's A view from the bridge of allowed gave her some of her best reviews for her acting, and she received a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
Johansson made his debut on 20 May 2008 as a singer on her first album, anywhere I lay my head, which consists mainly of covers of Tom Waits songs. Her second album, break up, with Pete Yorn, was released in September 2009.
Early life:
Johansson was born in New York City on November 22, 1984. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-American architect, 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. Johansson has an older sister, Vanessa, who is an actor; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (who appeared with her in the film Manny & Lo); and an older half-brother, Christian, from the first marriage of her father.
Johansson grew up in a household with "little money" and with a mother who was a "film buff". She and her brother, Hunter, visited P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village in lower school. Johansson began her theatrical training at maturity and where he graduated in 2002 from the Professional children's School in Manhattan.Acting Career:
Early roles:
Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother began her to participate in hearings. She made her film debut at nine years old, daughter of John Ritter in the 1994 fantasy comedy North. After small roles in the 1995 film just cause, the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw, and if Lucy fell in 1996, she played the role of Amanda in Manny & Lo (1996). Her performance in Manny & Lo won a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for best actress and positive reviews, noting, "[the film] grows on you, mainly as a result of the charm of ... Scarlett Johansson ", while the San Francisco Chronicle critic Mick LaSalle narrative on his" peaceful aura ", and wrote:" If they can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, they can become an important actress. "
After small roles in the autumn and home alone 3 in 1997, Johansson wide spread won attention for her performance in the 1998 film The Horse Whisperer, directed by Robert Redford.[1]She received a nomination for Chicago Film Critics Association Award for most promising actress for the film. In 1999, she appeared in my brother the pig and in 2001 in the neo-noir Coen brothers film The man who was also in 1999, she appeared in the video clip of Mandy Moore single "Candy". Although not the film was a box office success, it received praise for her break-out rolein 2001 movie Ghost World. Johansson credited with "sensitivity and talent, [which] violates her age", Toronto Film Critics Association Awards won for best supporting actress and was nominated for the Online Film Critics Society Award for best supporting actress. Johansson appeared in 2002 in the comedy-horror thriller, eight legged Freaks starring David Arquette.
Current:
In 2008, she appeared in the other Boleyn Girl, opposite Natalie Portman and Eric Bana, a movie, which received mixed reviews. Writing for Rolling Stone, Pete Travers accused the film "[move] in frustrating herks and jerks", but was more positive in its assessment of Johansson and Portman, and wrote: "what works is the combustible teaming Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, who gives the Boleyn hotties a tough core of intelligence and wit, swinging of the 16th century protofeminist issues useful in this movie". Black credited the cast as "almost onberispeli