Scarlett Johansson Research Paper

Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City. Her mother, Melaine Sloan, is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, and her father, Karsten Johansson, is Danish. She has a sister,Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, a brother, Adrian, a twin brother, Hunter Johansson, born three minutes after her, and a paternal half-brother, Christian. Her grandfather was writer EjnerJohanson.

Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother started taking her to auditions. She made her professional acting debut at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production of "Sophistry" with Ethan Hawke, at New York's Playwrights Horizons. She would audition for commercials but took rejection so hard her mother began limiting her to film tryouts. She made her film debut at the age of nine, as John Ritter's character's daughter in the 1994 fantasy comedy, North (1994). Following minor roles in the 1995 film Just Cause (1995), as the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw's character, and If Lucy fell (1996), she played the role of Amanda in Manny &
Scarlett Johansson", while San Francisco Chronicle critic Mick LaSalle commentated on her "peaceful aura", and wrote, "If she can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, she could become an important actress." After appearing in minor roles in Fall and Home Alone 3 in 1997, Johansson garnered widely spread attention for her performance in the 1998 film The Horse Whisper(1998), directed by Robert Redford, where she played Grace MacLean, a teenager traumatized by a riding accident. She received a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress for the film. In 1999, she appeared in My Brother the Pig and in 2001 in the Coen brothers film The Man Who Wasn't There. Also in 1999, she appeared in the music video for Mandy Moore's