Scarlett Johansson Biography
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Scarlett Johansson
was born on November 22, 1984 in New York City, New York to parents
Melanie and Karsten (divorced in 1998). She has a twin brother
(Hunter – younger by 3 minutes), an older sister (Vanessa) and an
older brother (Adrian) she also has an older half-brother
(Christian). Her grandfather is writer Ejner Johansson (d. 2001).
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She knew she
wanted to be an actress at a very young age and began to dream so at
the age of seven. She attended the Lee Strasberg Institute to learn
about acting, and soon began to perform live on stage.
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Her first
professional acting job, at the tender age of eight, was in an off
Broadway play entitled Sophistry (opposite Ethan Hawke). Her
first big screen debut came soon two years after (in 1994) with a
small role as Laura Nelson in the movie North. Other small
parts in movies came afterwards in such movies as Just Cause
and If Lucy Fell. However, it was not until 1996 that
the movie community began to take notice of her and she was
nominated for the Independent Spirit Award
for Best Female Lead in the movie Manny and Lo. Her big break came
in 1998, with the release of The Horse Wisperer, in which she
won the Young Star Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in
a Drama Film and was nominated for the Young Star Award for Best
Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress (nominated).
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Over the next few years, she took on
various roles in a variety of movies which enhanced her reputation
as a serious actress. The movies included Ghost World
(2000) where she won the TFCA Award for Best Supporting
Performance, Female and was nominated for OFCS Award for Best
Supporting Actress) and An American Rhapsody (2001) in which
she was given Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a Feature
Film - Leading Young Actress (tied w/Emma
Watson) and Young Artist Award for Best Ensemble in a Feature
Film (shared w/ Mae Whitman & Kelly Endresz-Banlaki). Believe it or
not, she did all of this while attending High School (Manhattan's
Professional Children's School), which she graduated in 2002.
Although she was accepted to the film school at Purchase University,
she decided that she needed to concentrate on her career.
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Her rise to fame
came in 2003 with the critically acclaimed and international box
office hit Lost in Translation with Bill Murray. She was
praised for her acting abilities as well as the memorable sexy
opening scene of the movie. For this role she was awarded the
Venice Film Festival’s Upstream Award for
Best Actress, the Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress and
the BAFTA Film Award for
Best
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. She
was nominated for many awards, including:
Golden Globe Award for
Best
Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy;
the Teen
Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Female; OFCS Award for
Best Actress; MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance;
IFTA Audience Award for Best International Actress; the Golden
Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting;
the BAFTA Film Award for
Best
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role;
the BFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress; and the CFCA Award for
Best Actress, the Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress.
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She also had a critically acclaimed role in the movie A Pearl
Earring, which was also released in 2003 For this role she was nominated
for the
British Independent Film Award for Best Actress,
and the
Best
Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama. In the same year she also won
the Hollywood Film Festival
Hollywood Discovery Award for Breakthrough Acting – Female.
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2004 was another good year for Scarlett,
who was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by
an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her role in A Love
Song for Bobby Love (2004). Let’s also not forget lending her
voice to the movie adaptation of SpongeBob SquarePants. In
2004 she was also awarded the Palm
Springs Int’l Film Festival Rising Star Award and the Los Angeles
Film Critics Association New Generation Award.
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She is currently working on a few more
movies and expect to see her soon in Black Dahlia, A View
From the Bridge and an untitled Woody Allen project. She is also spending her time doing charity work and is currently
helping out the The Make Poverty History campaign. She has also
stated in an interview in the January 2005 issue of Harpers
Bazaar that she has no problem with showing her breasts and is
quoted as saying
"I'm proud of my girls. They're my charms, my feminine wiles."
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Favories: favorite
music: classic rock (Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Rosemary Clooney,
etc.); favorite actresses: Meryle Streep, Judy Garland, Juliette
Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter; favorite actors: Gary Sinise, Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, Gary
Sinise, Patrick Swayze; favorite directors: Martin Scorsese, Francis
Ford Coppola, Tim Burton; favorite movies: Goodfellas,
Mean Streets; food = cheese
Biography by Ian Ripley,
PopStarsPlus.com, Sr. Staff Writer
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