Scarlett Johansson

Birthplace: New York, New York
Birthday: November 22, 1984

A pouty and pretty strawberry blonde New Yorker who commenced her career a child actor with instincts, skills and a streetwise grace that far outpaced her age, Scarlett Johansson first came to attention playing the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw terrorized by Blair Underwood in "Just Cause" (1995). Having made her stage debut at age eight in 1993's "Sophistry" at Playwrights Horizons Theatre, the young player also studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Her screen debut in Rob Reiner's disastrous "North" (1994) was less than memorabl…more

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Actor

Visions of Grace: Robert Redford and "The Horse Whisperer"
The 2004 MTV Movie Awards
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17th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards
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The 58th Annual Tony Awards
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The 77th Annual Academy Awards
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Career Milestones

2008
Cast as Mary Boleyn in "The Other Boleyn Girl" opposite Natalie Portman
2007
Cast as the nanny of a wealthy Manhattan household in "The Nanny Diaries"
2006
Cast as Aaron Eckhart's wife in "The Black Dahlia"; Brian De Palma's adaptation of James Ellroy's classic noir novel
2006
Re-teamed with Allen for the comedy "Scoop" as a college newspaper journalist opposite Hugh Jackman
2005
Co-starred opposite Ewan McGregor in the sci-fi thriller "The Island" directed by Michael Bay