Scarlett Johansson

The thing is that at twenty-one years old, Scarlett has shown signs of solid and accurate criteria when choosing roles. And the truth is that it was cannon fodder to swell consumerist frivolous films, with mindless adolescents and posh dolls, that type of product that would enhance the extreme carnality of her lips, her albino velvet face and her clear and indignant gaze. . But no, since her great emergence on the planet Hollywood with Lost in Translation , Scarlett has continued to show her talent in quality films, with interesting scripts, sometimes unconventional but always elegant, with class. And the satisfactory responses from critics and the public have been unanimous.

Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in New York. She is the daughter of a Danish builder and an American of Polish descent. The couple had five children, one of whom, Hunter, is Scarlett’s twin. It seems that very soon the little girl wanted to be an actress, and some have even pointed out that at the age of three she already told her mother that she wanted to act. Legend or not, the truth is that at the age of seven her mother took her daughter’s wishes seriously and became her agent, an occupation she maintains today with loving appreciation: “I have many actor friends who worked closely with their parents and have had horrible experiences, including lawsuits and separations. The most wonderful thing about my mother is that she completely respects my creative quirks and supports any decision I make, ”explains the actress.Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. She made her off-Broadway debut in a play called “Sophistry,” with Ethan Hawke as a co-star. Scarlett was 8 years old! Her first film job paired her with another child prodigy, Elijah Wood , in A Boy Called North (1994), and then she played Sean Connery ‘s daughter in Just Cause (1995). She continued playing charming little girl roles in If you don’t get married, I’ll kill myself (1996), in the unprecedented in Spain Manny & Lo (1996) –for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award–, in Fall (1997) and in Home Alone 3(1997). At that time, the young actress suffered a severe blow with the divorce of her parents, but after the sad event came her great cinematographic moment with The Man Who Whispered to Horses (1998), where a 14-year-old Scarlett dazzled with her character of Grace MacLean and won the YoungStar Award, among other prizes. It was in the Robert Redford film where she announced her name in the credits with the “Introducing” of the newcomers, despite the fact that the girl already had more than half a dozen films behind her.

The following works began to focus her career on not very frivolous characters, with an aura of precocious maturity, which at young ages can often translate into somewhat eccentric, misplaced attitudes of young girls searching for meaning. Much of that has Rachel from The Man Who Wasn’t There , directed by the Coen brothers, Rebecca from Ghost World , Terry Zwigoff ‘s super freaky work , or Suzanne from Susi’s Nightmare., the three films that Scarlett shot in 2001. The actress talks about the somewhat strange aspect of those roles: “You put a bit of yourself in the characters you play. Even if it’s a psychotic person, which I’m certainly not, a part of you is in that character and that’s what makes it believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than anything I build in my mind.”

And then Sofia Coppola arrived to give him the role of his life. Lost in Translation became an unexpected worldwide success and Johansson became an extraordinary diva at the age of 19. Her sad, disoriented, taciturn and sweet Charlotte oozes life from all four sides, which ties in with the actress’s words: “What I respect most in people is naturalness and authenticity. I like being able to see into his soul. I aspire to be a true person.” And that is precisely what she got in Tokyo. Subsequently, she has strengthened her career with high-quality films, such as the pictorial production of Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), the southern A Song from the Past (2004), alongside John Travolta ., the “Wildean” and romantic A Good Woman (2004) and the fun In Good Company , with Dennis Quaid . In recent times she has made her first foray into adventure cinema with the entertaining La isla (2005), a film that invites a deep reflection on the value of human life and technological advances. The last we’ve seen of Scarlett is Match Point (2005), a powerful Woody Allen drama . The New York author must have been enthusiastic because he has used her again in Scoop , the comedy that he has just filmed. And soon we will see Johansson in the role of Kay Lake in the dark crime thriller The Black Dahlia, directed by Brian De Palma from a novel by James Ellroy and with a cast that includes Josh Hartnett , Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart .