Scarlet Johansson

Date of Birth: November, 22 1984, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Scarlett I. Johansson
Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

“I actually started acting because I wanted to be in musicals when I was a little girl. That’s where my dream career was going to be when I was 8 years old, like the young Cosette in “Les Miserables.” Then I started making films and I never ended up doing musical theater. Of course, by the time I turned 13, I kind of buried that part of myself.”—Johansson to CNN.com, August 27, 2007.

“I can’t stand those articles where people spill their life story. After a while I feel like I know more about them than their best friend does, and that’s weird.”—Scarlett Johansson, to InStyle magazine, October 2006.

“I don’t plan on selling out. I mean, it’s nice getting a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.”—Johansson to Movieline’s Hollywood Life February 2004

“I feel so fortunate to be able to work with directors whose movies my mother waited on line for two hours to see. Here I am, 20 years old, getting to work with all these people who are an inspiration to my generation and the generation before.”—Johansson quoted to Interview magazine, November 2005.

“Look, I’m the kind of person that doesn’t put up with bullshit. Does that make me uncommonly mature? I don’t know. I think you mature with experiences, and how other people view you and your maturity really depends upon when you have those experiences … I think I was born with a great awareness of my surroundings and an awareness of other people. I know when I really connect with somebody and I know when I feel like I’ve known somebody before. And I absolutely know what it feels like to meet an old soul, to know an old soul. So for my mom and Bob Redford, two people I really respect, to say that about me, well, that’s a huge compliment.”

“Maybe years from now, when I’m having my midlife crisis and need to find myself, I’ll search deep down inside and find that old soul of mine and dust it off. But for now I’m enjoying getting to know all about my young soul.”—Scarlett Johansson on her perceived maturity to Interview, July 2001.

“People just don’t type cast me,” she says. “I’ve played so many different roles, from a high school student, to a wife, to a 17th-century Dutch maid, to trailer trash. For a while, I thought I might get typecast as the bitter, shitty teenager who’s always sarcastic, but luckily that was a fear that was never a reality.”—Johansson to Empire, March 2005.

“There’s cute, there’s pretty, there’s hot and there’s beautiful. Scarlett Johansson falls in the beautiful bracket.”—Frankie Muniz quoted in People May 10, 2004

“Unfortunately, because it’s adults writing these scripts, it’s tough. The problem is that adults portray kids like mall-rats, and not seriously; after all, we’re just like little adults and people with feelings too. Kids and teenagers just aren’t being portrayed with any real depth.”—Johansson on the teen actor’s search for intelligent roles, to Andrew Urban at UrbanCinefile.com, July 1998.

Describing her desire for a show business career, a three-year old Johansson reportedly told her mother she “had a fire in [her] brain to act.”

In 2007 Johansson was named Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Johansson was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People for 2004
Tops FHM magazine’s April 2006 list of the “100 Sexiest Women in the World”