Scarlett Johansson

About Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson is an American actress, musician, producer, director, and influencer.

Johansson first appeared on stage as a child in an off-Broadway play. She made her film debut in the fantasy comedy North (1994), followed by roles in Manny & Lo (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Ghost World (2001). Her first adult role came in Lost in Translation (2003), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She then played a 17th-century servant in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), a troubled teenager in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) and a seductress in Match Point (2005). Match Point was her first film with Woody Allen, who later directed her in Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Her other work from this period includes The Prestige (2006), the comic book adaptation The Spirit (2008), and the albums Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008) and Break Up (2009), both of which charted on the Billboard 200. In 2010, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of A View from the Bridge, winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. That year she began playing Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man 2. She reprised the role in eight films, leading up to the solo feature Black Widow (2021). She also starred in the science fiction films Her (2013), Under the Skin (2013) and Lucy (2014). She received simultaneous Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Marriage Story (2019), in which she played an actress going through a divorce, and Jojo Rabbit (2019), in which she played a single mother in Nazi Germany.

Johansson was the world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019 and has appeared multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. Her films have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making her the highest-grossing box office star of all time. She posed nude for the March 2006 cover of Vanity Fair alongside actress Keira Knightley and a fully clothed Tom Ford; some critics argued the photograph showed women being expected to display their sexuality more than men. She has criticized the media for promoting an image that contributes to unhealthy diets and eating disorders among women, and wrote an essay for The Huffington Post encouraging people to maintain a healthy body. She is a brand endorser and supports several charitable causes. In September 2011, nude photographs hacked from her cell phone were leaked online. She said the pictures had been sent to her then-husband, Ryan Reynolds, three years earlier. Following an FBI investigation, the hacker was arrested, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in prison. In 2014, she won a lawsuit against French publisher JC Lattès over libelous statements about her relationships in Grégoire Delacourt's novel The First Thing We Look At. She was awarded $3,400 after suing for $68,000.

Johansson's father, Karsten Olaf Johansson, is an architect originally from Copenhagen, Denmark. Her paternal grandfather was Ejner Johansson, an art historian, screenwriter and film director, whose own father was Swedish. Her mother, New Yorker Melanie Sloan (originally surnamed Schlamberg), has worked as a producer and comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family who fled Poland and Russia. She has a younger twin brother, Hunter Johansson, who is also an actor. While attending the Professional Children's School, Johansson dated classmate Jack Antonoff from 2001 to 2002. She dated her Black Dahlia co-star Josh Hartnett for about two years until the end of 2006; according to Hartnett, they broke up because their busy schedules kept them apart. She began dating Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds in 2007. They became engaged in May 2008, married in September 2008 on Vancouver Island, separated in December 2010 and divorced in July 2011. In November 2012, she began dating Romain Dauriac, a French advertising agency owner. They became engaged in September 2013 and divided their time between New York City and Paris. Their daughter was born in 2014, and they married in October 2014 in Philipsburg, Montana. They separated in mid-2016 and divorced in September 2017. Johansson began dating Colin Jost, co-head writer of Saturday Night Live and co-host of Weekend Update, in May 2017. They became engaged in May 2019 and married in October 2020 at their New York home. Their son was born in August 2021. Johansson resides in New York and Los Angeles.