Full Name: Scarlett Marie Johansson

Height: 5’4” (1.63m)

Date of Birth: November 22^nd, 1984

Star Sign: Scorpio

Current Age: 21

Place of Birth: New York, USA

Eye Colour: Green

Favourite Music: Classic Rock - Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day, Rosemary Clooney, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington

Favourite Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Juliette Lewis, Meryl Streep, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Gary Sinise, Christopher Walken, Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, Patrick Swayze, John Travolta

Favourite Directors: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Burton, Woody Allen

Favourite Films: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Auntie Mame, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Jurassic Park

Favourite Designers: Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Gucci, Prada

Education: The Lee Strasberg Institute, New York, USA

                    Professional Children’s’ School, Manhattan, New York

Family: Father – Karsten Johansson

              Mother – Melanie Johansson

              Brothers – Christian Johansson, Adrian Johansson & Hunter Johansson

              Sister – Vanessa Johansson

Celebrity Relationships: Benecio Del Toro (Actor)

Faiz Ahmad

Jared Leto (Actor)

     Josh Hartnett (Actor)

Pets: 1 Chihuahua called Maggie, 1 kitten called Trooper & a lizard

Occupation: Actress

Filmography: Brilliant (2007)

Amazon (2007)

                       Napoleon & Betsy (2007)

                       The Nanny Diaries (2007) playing Nan

                       The Prestige (2006) playing Olivia

                       The Black Dahlia (2006) playing Kay Lake

                        Scoop (2006)

                        The Island (2005) playing Sarah Jordan 

                        Match Point (2005) playing Nola Rice

                        In Good Company (2004) playing Alex Foreman

                        The Spongebob Squarepants movie (2004) playing the voice of Mindy

                        A Good Woman (2004) playing Meg Windermere

                        A love song for Bobby Long (2004) playing Pursy Will

                        The Perfect Score (2004) Francesca Curtis

                        Girl with a Pearl earring (2003) playing Griet

                        Lost in Translation (2003) playing Charlotte

                        Eight Legged Freaks (2002) playing Ashley Parker

                        An American Rhapsody (2001) playing Suzanne Sandor (young)

                        Ghost World (2001) playing Rebecca

                        The Man who wasn’t there (2001) playing Rachael Abundas

                         My Brother the Pig (1999) playing Kathy Caldwell

                         The Horse Whisperer (1998) playing Grace MacLean

                         Home Alone 3 (1997) playing Molly Pruitt

                         Fall (1997) playing a little girl

                         Manny & Lo (1996) playing Amanda

                         If Lucy fell (1996) playing Emily

                         Just Cause (1995) playing Kate Armstrong

                         North (1994) playing Laura Nelson

Her Family History: Scarlett’s father Karsten Johansson is a New York Architect born in Denmark. Her mother Melanie Johansson is now Scarlett’s manager, she comes from a Bronx-bred family. Scarlett’s parents are now divorced, they separated when Scarlett was 13. Scarlett divides her time between New York with her dad and Los Angeles with her mother. Scarlett’s brother Hunter is her twin and Scarlett is only 3 minutes older than him, these 3 minutes she claims are the most important in her life. Scarlett’s older sister Vanessa is also an actress. Scarlett is also the grandchild of writer Ejner Johansson

Interesting Facts about Scarlett:

      Scarlett’s performance as Grace in ‘The Horse Whisperer’ earned her a Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award, Scarlett also received an “introducing” credit for this film although is was her seventh feature film

      Scarlett’s acting career was launched in the Broadway production of ‘Sophistry’ alongside Ethan Hawke

      Scarlett is of Polish and Danish descent

      She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 2004

      Scarlett applied to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003, but was not accepted. However, this rejection helped her to focus on her career which blossomed soon after

      In an interview, Scarlett said she had a connection with older men and that she probably wouldn’t date anyone younger than 30. True to her word, she had a relationship with actor Benicio Del Toro who is 17 years her senior

      She was cast as Rebecca in the film ‘Thumbsucker’ in 2005 but dropped out before filming began and was replaced by Kelli Garner

      Scarlett campaigned for John Terry AND Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential Election and even wore a ‘Howard Dean’ badge to the ‘Perfect Score’ Premiere

      Scarlett celebrated her 20^th birthday at Disneyland

      She auditioned for the lead role in ‘The Parent Trap’ which eventually went to Lindsay Lohan

      Scarlett originally planned to attend Purchase University to Study film, but despite her ambition to become a Director she later rejected these plans as she would have to be there regularly which would make it difficult to take on any acting jobs. Instead, she is going to do courses from time to time

      Scarlett prepared for her role in ‘Lost in Translation’ by living on Hokkaido with then boyfriend Faiz Ahmad

      Scarlett had to have tonsillectomy

      Her First role was in a skit during the first year of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" at age 8. She relived this moment during an interview with Conan in 2005, twelve years later

      She was ranked #9 in FHM’s 100 sexiest women in the world in 2005, she became the highest ranking new entry to the list

      Scarlett was put at #24 on Maxim’s Hot 100 of 2005 list

       She donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign

      Scarlett turned down a leading role in ‘American Pie’

      Scarlett was born on the 25^th anniversary of the assassination of JFK

      Scarlett was named after the ‘Gone With the Wind’ character Scarlett O’Hara

      When Scarlett was 3 she told her mother “I have a fire in my brain to act”

      Scarlett auditioned for several ads at around the age of 7, but she was left disappointed as family say she did not react to rejection very well. This caused her to have hysterical fits and she even threw a tantrum on the subway

      Her role in ‘Manny & Lo’ in 1996 as a runaway orphan earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress

      In 2004 Scarlett won a BAFTA

      At the Venice Film Festival, Scarlett won the Upstream prize for Best Actress for her role in ‘Lost in Translation’

      Scarlett hates being labelled an ‘It-Girl’

      Scarlett has received several nominations for the Golden Globes award for Best Leading Actress

      Scarlett has a contract with Calvin Klein and is the face of their perfume ‘Eternity Moment’

      Scarlett has worked on projects with top designer Louis Vuitton

      ‘The Island’ which Scarlett starred in was considered a flop in the box office

      Scarlett has a $5 million deal with L’Oreal Cosmetics but refuses to pose nude for them

      Scarlett bought an apartment in the same building as her mother

      Scarlett is the face of Bono’s project RED to help people suffering from aids in Africa, she also campaigns for the Global call against Poverty and the Global Campaign for Education

      Scarlett’s agent is William Morris

      Ranked #3 on FHM’s 100 sexiest women of 2006 list

      It was reported that Scarlett had sex with 37 year old flame Benecio Del Toro in a lift

      Scarlett posed nude with Keira Knightly in the February, 2006 issue of Vanity Fair

      Scarlett had her boobs groped at the 2006 Golden Globes by reporter Isaac Mizrahi 

      Scarlett crashed her car near Disneyland when she was being chased by the paparazzi

Scarlett’s Personal Quotes:

“I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart."

"I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through."

“I have a lot of actor friends who worked with their parents closely and have had really horrible experiences. They end up suing or being emancipated. The wonderful thing about my mom [who is also her manager] is that she completely respects my creative weirdness and supports any decision I make.”

On David Hasselhoff, after they had both worked on The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004): "I so fancied him when I was young, that to see my name on the credits next to his makes me go all girly. He was a hunk back in those days."

"I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success."

"People forget what it's like to be a child. When you're a child actress, people sometimes regress into being obnoxious and patronizing. But there's no reason to dumb things down just because you're working with kids."

"What I respect most in people is naturalness and authenticity. I like to be able to see into their soul. I aspire to being a truthful person."

"The most precious moment in life is when you're about to fall in love. You're lying in bed together and he's gazing at you and you're gazing at him and there's a sense that something truly wondrous is about to happen. It's a nervous moment - but it's exhilarating."

"I don't talk about my personal relationships; it always ends up kicking you in the face. But I've read a lot of things about myself and think, `Wow! That girl sounds really saucy.'"

"I think that I sort of see other actresses are kind of proud of the way they look and show it off. That's never really been my style. I really don't think that it's disgusting or wrong, if you're 18 you're 18, it's your body, it's your right to show yourself, however, I don't really take a part in that. I like to look nice, but I think that there's ways of doing it that are more tasteful than just wearing a bikini wherever you go."

"Tons of that stuff comes to me, but a lot of it is awful. All these teenage slaying movies and movies about girls that have deformities that become cheerleaders and then marry the prom king!"

"I always had the chance to do whatever I wanted to do, my parents were very open about that. Acting has been a passion of mine. I wanted to be in musicals as a kid, and took tap dance, so for me it's a dream come true, my childhood was filled with things that I loved to do, and also very normal things: I lived in New York, I have a family life and went to a regular school. If anything, I look back and think, 'Wow, I did a lot of things that a lot of people don't get to do in their lifetime'."

"It's a place of solace. I love London, it's an amazing city. I've met some wonderful people there and I also have some family there. I'm from New York, so I feel very at home in London. It's like a metropolitan breeding ground for culture, art, music and diversity. It's a beautiful city, with beautiful history. In Hollywood, it's hard to step outside of the circle once you're in it. But in London I was really moved by how accepted I felt there. There was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses!"

"I came home and I thought I was going to die. I was in agony. I had muscles that had atrophied. I couldn't run any longer and it was only the first day. But, actually, Ewan was in the same boat. He had black and blue marks all over him. So, it wasn't so bad since someone else was in agony." [On filming The Island (2005)]

"I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable."

"Everyone in Hollywood is so damn skinny and you constantly feel like you're not skinny enough. But I have 'fat days' and I accept that I'm never going to be rail thin. It's hard not to feel pressure in this industry and I already use anti-aging products on my skin. I try not to let the pressure get to me but Los Angeles is a very hard place to be unless you have people here that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself."

"I was driving through Los Angeles and I look up and see the biggest photo of me I have ever seen in my life on a massive ad space. I screamed and slammed on the brakes. I couldn't believe it. It's very strange to see my cleavage the size of a brontosaurus. My breasts were huge. I had long hair and my goodness, I couldn't get past the cleavage."