Scarlett Johansson

 Scarlett Ingrid Johansson, was born on November 22 1984, in Manhattan, New York City. Her mother Melanie Sloan is from an ethnically Jewish family in the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect who hails from Copenhagen. She has a sisternamed 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 a writer Ejner Johansson.Johansson started acting in her the early years of her life, when her mother started inviting her to auditions. At eight years old, she made her professional acting debut in "Sophistry", an off-Broadway musical starring Ethan Hawke at New York's Playwrights Horizons. She would audition for commercials but took rejection so hard her mother began limiting her to auditions for film. At the age of nine, she made her film debut as John Ritter's character's child in North (1994). After small roles in Just Cause (1995), as the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw's character, and Lucy Fell (1996), she played the role of Amanda in Manny & Lo (1996).