The world's highest-paid actress in and , she has been featured multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity list. Time named her one of the most influential people in the world in Johansson first appeared on stage in an off-Broadway play as a child actress. She continued to gain praise for playing a 17th-century servant in Girl with a Pearl Earring , a troubled teenager in A Love Song for Bobby Long and a seductress in Match Point The latter marked her first collaboration with Woody Allen , who later directed her in Scoop and Vicky Cristina Barcelona She reprised the role in eight films, leading up to her solo feature Black Widow , gaining global stardom.
During this period, Johansson starred in the science fiction films Her , Under the Skin and Lucy She received two simultaneous Academy Award nominationsβ Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress βfor the respective roles of an actress going through a divorce in the drama Marriage Story and a single mother in Nazi Germany in the satire Jojo Rabbit , becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat.
Labeled a sex symbol , Johansson has been referred to as one of the world's most attractive women by various media outlets. She is a prominent brand endorser and supports several charitable causes. She has two children, one with Dauriac and another with Jost. Through him, she is a granddaughter of Ejner Johansson , an art historian, screenwriter and film director, whose own father was Swedish.
She comes from a Jewish family who fled Poland and Russia , originally surnamed Schlamberg. They often spent time together and Johansson considered Dorothy her best friend. She was particularly fond of musical theater and jazz hands. She has described her childhood as very ordinary. As a child, Johansson practiced acting by staring in the mirror until she made herself cry, wanting to be like Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. At age seven, she was devastated when a talent agent signed one of her brothers instead of her, but later decided to become an actress anyway.
After enrolling at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and auditioning for commercials, Johansson soon lost interest, stating "I didn't want to promote Wonder Bread. At age nine, Johansson landed her first paid role as a sketch character on an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Her performance received positive reviews: one written for the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "[the film] grows on you, largely because of the charm of Scarlett Johansson," [ 21 ] while critic Mick LaSalle , writing for the same paper, commented on her "peaceful aura", and believed, "If she can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, she could become an important actress.
