Scarlet Johansson Biography:

Born in New York City on November 22, 1984, Scarlett Johansson is the youngest of four siblings, she has an older brother and sister, and a twin brother. Scarlett had an curiously early curiosity in the stage: She wanted to be an actress since the early age of four, and was acting professionally when she was only eight years old. After attending acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute for Young People, Scarlett made her stage introduction during the 1990's in the off-Broadway production of "Sophistry", next to super star Ethan Hawke.

Scarlett Johansson's first film role came in 1994's "North", starring Elijah Wood. The following year she played Sean Connery's daughter in the thriller "Just Cause", and then in 1996, she was hired and cast in "If Lucy Fell" starring Ben Stiller and Sarah Jessica Parker and then appeared in the movie "Manny & Lo" as Amanda. For this movie, Scarlett was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress in 1997. That same year she also worked on "Fall" and "Home Alone 3" the last of the dying "Home Alone" franchise made famous by young teen heart-throb Macaulay Culkin.

In 1998, Scarlett Johansson's career achieved new levels. Hired and cast as Grace MacLean, a young teen girl who suffers a disastrous horse riding accident in "The Horse Whisperer" opposite leading man Robert Redford. Scarlett was commonly accredited as the most gifted actor of an otherwise panned film. The thirteen year old actress was awarded a Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award for her efforts. 

Building on the energy of "The Horse Whisperer", Scarlett appeared in "My Brother the Pig" with Eva Mendes in 1999, and then co-starred with Thora Birch in Terry Zwigoff's adaptation of the teen era comic book "Ghost World" with Brad Renfro.

The next year she grabbed attention once again in a stimulating role in the Coen brothers' "The Man Who Wasn't There" starring Billy Bob Thornton. Also in 2001, Scarlett starred in "An American Rhapsody", a Hungarian film about a young girl who escapes from behind the iron curtain in the 1950's. This serious role was balanced out in 2002, with Starlet's role in the monster thriller adventure movie, "Eight Legged Freaks".

The year 2003 would prove to be the year Scarlett Johansson's became a sexy Hollywood celebrity. She starred in Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" as a young girl living in Japan, who becomes friends with a washed up American actor, played by Bill Murray. Scarlett followed "Lost in Translation" with the Colin Firth starring movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring", where she played the title role - a stressed servant girl who becomes sucked into the world of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Both roles brought Scarlett Best Actress Golden Globe nominations in 2004, and a Best Actress BAFTA Award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) for "Lost in Translation".

With the 2004 teen comedy "The Perfect Score", Johansson showed once again that she can take on comedic roles as well as serious leading parts. Scarlett divides her time living between New York City, where her father lives, and Los Angeles, where her mother tends after her business affairs. In 2005 Scarlett appeared in two movies,  "Match Point" and "The Island" starring Ewan McGregor. She was also hired as advertising spokesperson for Calvin Klein perfume "Eternity Moment." In 2006 she was named the face of L'Oreal.

Scarlett worked on two movies that year including roles in "The Black Dahlia" with Hilary Swank and "The Prestige", alongside Christian Bale. And to top off a busy year Scarlett was the leading lady in Bob Dylan's music video "When the Deal Goes Down." In 2007 Johansson played Annie Braddock in "The Nanny Diaries" and summer advertising campaign for Reebok was also released.

During 2008 she worked on several projects including "The Other Boleyn Girl" working along side Natalie Portman - a spectacular and sexual story of deception, love, romance and betrayal set in old Europe. Two gorgeous sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, compete for the love and sex of the handsome and loving King Henry VIII. Her next project was "Mary Queen of Scots" (2008) - a story of the life and reign of Mary I of Scotland, with a focus her difficult personal and political relationship with her father's cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Next was the star-packed comedy "He's Just Not That Into You" with Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly and Ben Affleck, the Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior. Johansson then starred in the dramatic action movie "The Spirit" (2008) with Samuel L. Jackson and Eva Mendes, where rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond as "The Spirit", a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City.