SCARLETT JOHANSSON
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Date of Birth: November 22, 1984
This native to the Big Apple with a twin brother and two older siblings has
been studying acting with the best tutors in New York since she was a child.
She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, a school devoted to furthering
"The Method" of Stanislavski, the Russian drama coach who had the
greatest influence on performance in twentieth-century theater and film.
At the age of eight, Johansson appeared in Sophistry, an
off-Broadway play. She made her film debut as play Laura in Rob Reiner's
North (1994), then played Kate, Sean Connery's daughter in Just Cause (1995). In
1996 she received critical acclaim for her work as a young girl who escapes
a foster home with her elder sister in the film Manny and Lo (1996).
She appeared in the television pilot The Client for CBS and has been a guest on many talk shows.
In 1998 she had a starring role as a teen who is emotionally traumatized after being thrown from her
horse in The Horse Whisperer (1998), directed by Robert Redford, who also starred in the film. Her performance earned her a Hollywood Reporter Young Star award. She has since won Best Supporting Actress at the Toronto Film Festival for her work in Ghost World (2001), Best Actress for Lost in Translation (2003) from the Boston Society of Film Critics, and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards—one for Lost in Translation and the other for Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003).
In September 2008, she and actor Ryan Reynolds were married, but just over two years later, on December 14, 2010, they announced that the marriage was over.
Filmography:
Iron Man 2 (2010)
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
The Prestige (2006)
Scoop (2006)
The Black Dahlia (2006)
A Good Woman (2006)
Match Point (2006)
The Island (2005)
In Good Company (2005)
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2005)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) (voice)
The Perfect Score (2004)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
An American Rhapsody (2001)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Ghost World (2001)
My Brother the Pig (1999)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Home Alone 3 (1997)
Manny and Lo (1996)
If Lucy Fell (1996)
Just Cause (1995)
North (1994)