No 05. Most Sexiest Woman 2007 -
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson
(born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. She rose to fame
with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained
critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World, Lost in Translation
and Girl with a Pearl Earring, the latter two earning her Golden
Globe Award nominations in 2003. Johansson was born in New York
City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect,
and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter
and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from a
Jewish American family from the Bronx. Johansson's parents met in
Denmark, where her mother lived with Johansson's maternal
grandmother, Dorothy, a former bookkeeper and schoolteacher.
Johansson has an older sister, Vanessa, who is also an actress; an
older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter, also an actor; and a
half-brother, Christian, from her father's re-marriage. Johansson
grew up in a household with "little money" with a mother who was a
"film buff". Johansson began her theater training by attending and
graduating from Professional Children's School in Manhattan in
2002.

Scarlett Johansson
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