Scarlett Johansson

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Scarlett Johansson (2019)

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984 in New York City ) is an American - Danish actress and singer .

Life

Johansson with Chris Evans (2016)

Scarlett Johansson's Danish father Karsten is an architect , her mother Melanie Sloan comes from an Ashkenazi family of Polish-Jewish descent from the New York borough of Bronx . After her parents divorced, she lived with her father in New York for a while, then with her mother in Los Angeles . She has a twin brother (Hunter) as well as an older sister ( Vanessa ) and an older brother (Adrian). She is the granddaughter of the art historian Ejner Johansson . Her parents chose the first name Scarlett ( English scarlet "scarlet") for her after Scarlett O'Hara from the novel Gone with the Wind .

As a child she attended the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute . In 2002 she graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan . Her acting career began in 1992 in Los Angeles with the Off-Broadway -Theaterstück Sophistry in which they with Ethan Hawke was on stage.

In May 2008, her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds became known. The two married on September 27, 2008 in Canada. The divorce, announced in December 2010, was enforced in the Los Angeles County District Court on July 1, 2011.

In autumn 2011, several private photos of Johansson found their way onto the Internet. A hacker accused of the act was arrested by the FBI in October 2011 . As of August 2013, Scarlett Johansson was engaged to the French journalist Romain Dauriac. The couple have a daughter who was born in September 2014. The couple married shortly after their daughter was born, but separated again after about two years. This was followed by a custody battle over daughter Rose. Johansson and Dauriac have been divorced since September 2017. Johansson is currently dating the comedian Colin Jost.

Career

Scarlett Johansson at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival
Scarlett Johansson at the 2012 Golden Camera

As an actress

Johansson made her acting debut with a minor role in the 1994 film North, and then starred in supporting roles in The Swamp of Crime , When Lucy Jumps and Home Alone Again . She came into the limelight in 1996 with her first leading role in Manny & Lo , for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award the following year .

With her part in the film adaptation of the novel The Horse Whisperer by and with Robert Redford, she increased her popularity. Redford was enthusiastic about the then 14-year-old; she won the Young Star Award for the best performance by a young actress in the Drama category . She then starred in the films Always Trouble with Piggy George , Ghost World , The Man Who Wasn't There and Arac Attack - Attack of the Eight-Legged Monsters .

With Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola , she made her international breakthrough alongside Bill Murray in 2003. Johansson, whose trademark is her rough voice, plays a newly married young woman who, like the much older actor Bob Harris , feels lost in Tokyo . Despite the age difference, both get closer in this unusual situation. She has received a number of awards for her performance, including the British Academy Film Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award .

She received a second Golden Globe nomination in the same year for the historical drama The Girl with the Pearl Earring , in which she played the character of Griet, who is the model of the painter Jan Vermeer . It was followed by the shallow teenage comedy Voll dotset and the drama Good Woman - A Summer in Amalfi . Her role in Lovesong for Bobby Long earned her a third Golden Globe nomination.

At the side of Ewan McGregor , she celebrated another commercial success in the science fiction film The Island in 2005 . In Woody Allen's drama Match Point , she played an unemployed American actress who goes on an affair in London with an Irishman who has married into the upper class. For this role she was nominated again for a Golden Globe. For the film Scoop - Der Knüller she worked again in 2006 under the direction of Woody Allen. Her role as his muse was confirmed with Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona , which he shot in the summer of 2007 with Johansson, Javier Bardem , Penélope Cruz and Rebecca Hall .

In 2007 she was also featured in the music videos for the songs When the Deal Goes Down by Bob Dylan and What Goes Around… Comes Around… by Justin Timberlake .

In 2008 she starred opposite Natalie Portman and Eric Bana in the period drama The Sister of Queen Mary Boleyn .

She then appeared in the comic book adaptations The Spirit (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010) as well as in the hit comedy He's Just Not Into You .

On January 24, 2010, she gave her Broadway premiere with the drama Blick von der Brücke alongside Liev Schreiber ; she received the Tony Award for her performance . Since December 2012 she has played the role of Maggie in The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Richard Rodgers Theater . In 2013 she directed Under The Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer .

In 2012 she played Janet Leigh in the biopic Hitchcock . In 2013 she played a leading female role in the comedy Don Jon in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut . In the same year she lent her voice to the highly developed computer operating system Samantha in Her . For her lecture, she was praised as the real star of the film, which gave Samantha a fascinating, multi-layered character.

June 2015. They recorded an annual income of 35.5 million by June 2014 US dollars and was by Jennifer Lawrence in this period zweitbestverdienende actress in the world.

Since her first appearance in Iron Man 2 , Johansson has played the fan-popular role of "Black Widow" or "Natasha Romanoff" in the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe .

In 2018 Scarlett Johansson was slated to star in the biopic Rub & Tug about the transgender Dante Gill. After a lot of criticism and a dialogue with the LGBT community, the actress finally gave up the part.

In 2020 Johansson was given the rare honor of a double nomination at the Academy Awards . She was considered for both her leading role in Marriage Story and her supporting role in Jojo Rabbit .

German synchronization

Since the film Match Point , Johansson has been voiced by the German actress Luise Helm , until then Berenice Weichert was her standard voice actress .

Music career

In 2006 the album Unexpected Dreams was released in the United States . Songs From The Stars , on which Johansson is featured with the title Summertime . She sang the song Yes We Can with Will.i.am and others , which supported Barack Obama's presidential campaign. In April 2008 she presented her album Anywhere I Lay My Head in London , which was then released on May 16, 2008 and consists of cover versions of Tom Waits songs.

In September 2009 the album Break Up came out, for which Johansson had recorded duets with Pete Yorn .

She also took part in several soundtracks, for example for He just isn't into you . She sang a song for the documentary Chasing Ice , which was nominated for best song at the 2013 Academy Awards .

social commitment

Johansson was in
Kuwait in 2008 for the United Service Organizations .

From 2005, Johansson was ambassador for the civil society development aid organization Oxfam , which works for sustainable development and social justice worldwide. In 2007 she traveled to Asia with Oxfam to get an idea of ​​the situation of the people there. In Sri Lanka, she visited projects that care for survivors of the tsunami , and in India she spent a day at a girls' school in Uttar Pradesh founded by Oxfam . For the trip, she decided not to take part in the celebrations surrounding the Oscar awards.

At the beginning of 2008, she had a date auctioned off with her via an online auction. The proceeds of US $ 40,000 went to the Oxfam charity.

Since January 2014 Johansson has been the central advertising figure of the Israeli household appliance company SodaStream . SodaStream produced, among other things, in the industrial park of the Jewish settlement Maʿale Adummim in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967 . Oxfam, as a supporter of boycott measures against products from the Israeli settlements, was irritated. Johansson then terminated her relationship with Oxfam because of "fundamental differences of opinion" regarding calls for a boycott against Israel.

advertising

In addition to her acting and singing activities, Johansson also works as a model. She took part in a perfume advertising campaign and modeled for a French luxury brand. Since 2007 she has also been promoting a sporting goods manufacturer with whom she publishes her own fashion collection. In 2009 she was hired by an Italian fashion brand as the face for their make-up line and by a Spanish fashion brand for several campaigns.

In March 2006, she appeared next to Keira Knightley and Tom Ford naked on the cover of the US magazine Vanity Fair designed by Annie Leibovitz . In the same year, she was photographed in fetish clothing with the strip artist Dita Von Teese for Flaunt Magazine .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2008 Anywhere I Lay My Head DE30 (4 weeks)
DE
AT25 (8 weeks)
AT
CH15 (4 weeks)
CH
UK64 (1 week)
UK
US126 (1 week)
US
First published: May 16, 2008
2009 Break up DE89 (1 week)
DE
- CH58 (6 weeks)
CH
- US41 (9 weeks)
US
First published: September 15, 2009
with Pete Yorn

EPs

year title Remarks
2008 Rhapsody Originals First published: June 24, 2008
Live session First published: July 15, 2008
2009 Live at KCRW.com First published: December 15, 2009; with Pete Yorn
2018 Apart First published: June 1, 2018; with Pete Yorn

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2008 Falling Down
Anywhere I Lay My Head
- - CH70 (2 weeks)
CH
- -
First published: March 18, 2008
2009 Relator
Break Up
DE91 (3 weeks)
DE
- CH57 (9 weeks)
CH
- -
First published: May 12, 2009
with Pete Yorn

Filmography

Scarlett Johansson (2017)

cinemamovies

TV Shows

Music videos

  • 2007: Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around

Awards

Awards received

Johansson at the inauguration of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2012)

Nominations

Web links

Commons : Scarlett Johansson  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Johansson's dual citizenship
  2. s. Interview with Natalie Portman in stern , issue No. 11/2008:  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de
  3. Scarlett Johansson and Hollywood colleague Ryan Reynolds want to get married on May 5, 2008
  4. people: Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds Wed in Canada , September 28, 2008, accessed September 28, 2008
  5. Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds: Divorced in friendship on July 4, 2011
  6. Scarlett Johansson naked: Celebrity photos were circulating on the Internet from September 15, 2011
  7. "Operation Hackerazzi": FBI snaps thief of Johansson's nude photos of 13 October 2011
  8. tz.de : Scarlett Johansson is engaged , accessed on March 20, 2014
  9. Scarlett Johansson gives birth to girls. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 5, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  10. Scarlett Johansson has first baby. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 5, 2014, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  11. Daughter Rose is here! Mother joys for Hollywood star. In: stern.de . September 5, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  12. Chloe Melas CNN: Scarlett Johansson and husband split. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  13. Scarlett Johansson shows her new friend on the red carpet for the first time. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  14. Information on Back Alone at Home from the IMDb , accessed on March 30, 2014
  15. Scott Lapatine: New Bob Dylan Video - “When The Deal Goes Down,” accessed December 23, 2013
  16. ^ Anna Pickard: Justin Timberlake (and Scarlett Johansson) - What Goes Around . TheGuardian.com, accessed December 23, 2013
  17. ^ Scarlett on the Roof , Spiegel Online, December 19, 2012
  18. Scarlett Johansson: Naked as the Lord God created her ( memento of the original from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Europolitan.de, September 11, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europolitan.de
  19. Rodrigo Perez: NYFF Review: Spike Jonze's 'Her' Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams & Rooney Mara. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Playlist, accessed December 23, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.indiewire.com
  20. Annual Income of Highest Earning Actresses Worldwide from June 2014 to June 2015 (in million US dollars) , de.statista.com
  21. After great criticism: Scarlett Johansson draws the right conclusions at Rub & Tug . In: moviepilot.de . July 16, 2018 ( moviepilot.de [accessed July 16, 2018]).
  22. Scarlett Johansson in the German synchronous index , accessed on December 23, 2013
  23. Fee on cough syrup from April 7, 2008
  24. Erin Carlson: Oscars 2013: Best Song Contender J. Ralph on Scarlett Johansson's 'World-Class' Singing Voice . The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  25. ^ Johansson in India
  26. Expensive date with Scarlett on March 14, 2008
  27. New York Times, January 23, 2014 ROBERT MACKEY, “Scarlett Johansson's SodaStream Endorsement Deal Conflicts With Charity Work, Aid Group Says”
  28. ^ Scarlett Johansson stepping down as Oxfam ambassador , Ha-Aretz on January 30, 2014
  29. Scarlett Johansson Stars for Reebok ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brandweek.com
  30. Scarlett Johansson - Face of Dolce & Gabbana ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Viply, accessed December 23, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.viply.de
  31. Scarlett Johansson is romantic for Mango . www.welt.de, accessed on December 23, 2013
  32. ^ Keith Wagstaff: Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley, Vanity Fair . Time.com, accessed December 23, 2013.
  33. a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  34. a b "Sexiest Woman Alive": Scarlett Johansson does it again. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved October 7, 2013 .
  35. Iris Mazzacurati: Césars 2014: Scarlett Johansson recevra un César d'honneur . lexpress.fr, February 11, 2014
predecessor Office Successor
Mila Kunis Sexiest Woman Alive
2013
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