Ingrid Ellen Scarlett Johansson (New York, United States, November 22 of 1984), known as Scarlett Johansson, is an actress of film, model and singer with citizenship U.S. and Danish. Rose to fame with her role in the film Man Horse Whisperer (1998) and later earned acclaim from film critics because of its participation in Ghost World. She was also an award creditor BAFTA and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring in 2003. On May 20 of 2008 she debuted as vocalist. Scarlett Johansson’s first album entitled Music ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’, the album contains several versions of songs.Scarlett Johansson was born in the city of New York on November 22 of 1984. Her father, Karsten Johansson hails from Denmark and architect by profession, and her mother Melanie Sloan is film producer and comes from a family of Ashkenazi’s county of New York Bronx. Her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson was screenwriter and film director. Johansson has dual citizenship, U.S. and Denmark. Her parents met in Denmark, where her mother lived with her grandmother Dorothy, who was a librarian and teacher of a school in that country. The actress has a older sister, Vanessa , who is also an actress, a brother named Adrian, a brother twin known as Hunter, who is also an actor, and a half brother of the second marriage of her father named Christian.
From childhood was prepared to be an actress and studied it first in the Professional Children's School in Manhattan, and then she went at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
After being introduced to several castings for ads from television, Scarlett debuted in the theater at age eight. From there won several film roles of secondary characters to reach her first starring role as Amanda in Manny & Lo of Lisa Krueger.
Scarlett Johansson was not a child star like other prodigies of Hollywood. One of her first leading roles was playing Kate Armstrong in a film of action and suspense, Just Cause of Arne Glimcher, but not very successful. Although she continued her film career, she did not get a leading role for four years. Actor and Director Robert Redford cast her as Grace MacLean, a girl who becomes disabled after falling from a horse on the man who whispered to horses. It was at that moment that left the teenage aside and became a more mature actress able to play a variety of roles.
In 2001 represented a supporting role in The Man Who Was not There the Coen brothers, her character, "Birdy" a pianist friend of the protagonist (Billy Bob Thornton). That same year she starred in Ghost World, alongside Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi, a successful comedy drama would end up being considered of worship for many. And on which she and her character said: "Rebecca is a really smart girl and a bit different …… This is not a typical teen movie".
It was in 2003, when Scarlett got internationally and began to be recognized in the media. In The Girl with a Pearl of Peter Webber, based on the novel by Tracy Chavalier which is about a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, her interpretation of Griet was critically acclaimed. This film was her most successful to date, but the debut Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola, she called the attention of critics with her role of Charlotte. It was an independent film, starring alongside Bill Murray, and received four nominations for the Academy Awards Academy of Motion Picture Arts United States. Another success as an actress was provided by Match Point by Woody Allen, in which she plays the beautiful Nola Rice, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes in 2006, which eventually led award Rachel Weisz for her role Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener by Fernando Meirelles. She worked with Brian De Palma in 2006 in The Black Dahlia, adapted from the famous novel by James Ellroy, and has returned to work with Woody Allen in her last two films, the comedy Scoop and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Scarlett Johansson also appeared in 2012 in the film The Avengers playing Black Widow.
Since then, Scarlett Johansson has kept working steadily in film and advertising model.
The May 20, 2008 released her first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head , an album consists of 10 covers of songs by Tom Waits and an original song, was produced by Dave Sitek and features David Bowie as second voice and Nick Zinner , a member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Celebration . The album received mixed reviews. Was named the "23rd best album of 2008" by NME and reached # 1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and # 126 on the Billboard 200.
In 2009, she recorded a cover of the song "Last Goodbye" by Jeff Buckley for the soundtrack of the movie He's Just Not That into You. Later, in September of that year, with singer-songwriter Pete Yorn recorded an album entitled Break Up, inspired by the duets of Serge Gainsbourg with Brigitte Bardot. The album reached # 41 in the Billboard 200 and # 160 in the United Kingdom.
In 2010 the band Steel Train released Terrible Thrills Album Vol. 1, which includes their favorite female artists singing songs from their self-titled, in which Johansson is the first with the song "Bullet". In 2011 she recorded “One Whole Hour "for the documentary film Wretches and Jabberers.
Scarlett Johansson announced her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds in May 2008 at a gala of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The couple had been in a relationship since February 2007. The September 28, 2008, the couple announced to the magazine People who had married in the strictest privacy on the outskirts of Vancouver, Canada. The same magazine was chosen to spread the news to the couple announced the end of their marriage on 14 December, 2010. Officially they marriage ends in 01 July, 2011.
On May 2 of 2012 Scarlett received her star on the Walk of Fame. She is also a Global Ambassador for Oxfam, the aid and development agency. She also related politics and taken part of the Democratic candidate election campaign. Scarlett Johansson, the sexiest celebrity, actress, singer and model, continuously appeared in the list of sexiest women in the world.
0 comments:
Post a Comment