Scarlett Johansson ( New York, on November 22, 1984 ) is an American actress , model and singer who rose to fame with her role in the film Man Horse Whisperer (1998) and later earned acclaim by of film critics because of her performance in Ghost World. It was also won her a BAFTA Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring in 2003. The May 20, 2008 , he debuted as a vocalist on her first album , entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head , which contains multiple versions of songs from singer-songwriter Tom Waits. She has played the character Black Widow in Iron Man (2010 ) , The Avengers (2012) and Captain America and Winter Soldier (2014) and is planned to repeat the role in The Avengers : Age of Ultron (2015 ) . The roles of Don Jon Johansson (2013) and Under the Skin (2014 ) received critical acclaim and won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Broadway play of 2010 View from the Bridge of Arthur Miller.
Johansson was born in New York on November 22, 1984 . Her father, Karsten Johansson hails from Denmark and an architect by profession , and her mother Melanie Sloan is film producer and comes from a family of Ashkenazi origin of the New York borough of the Bronx . His paternal grandfather was Ejner Johansson writer and film director . Johansson has dual citizenship , U.S. and Danish . Her parents met in Denmark , where her mother lived with her grandmother Dorothy , who was a librarian and teacher of a school in that country. The actress has an older sister, Vanessa , who is also an actress , a brother named Adrian, a twin brother called Hunter, who is also an actor, and half brother of the second marriage of his father named Christian .
From childhood was prepared to be an actress and to this he studied first at the Professional Children 's School in Manhattan , and when he was a little older, at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
She had a relationship with his co-star in The Black Dahlia Josh Hartnett for two years until the end of 2006, with Hartnett citing their busy lives as the reason for separation.
Scarlett announced her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds in May 2008 at a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The couple had been in a relationship since February 2007. The September 28, 2008, the couple announced to People magazine that she had married in the strictest intimacy outside of Vancouver, Canada. This magazine was chosen to spread the news to the couple announced the end of their marriage on December 14, 2010.
In September 2013, Johansson is engaged to her boyfriend, Romain Dauriac, own independent advertising agency. The couple began dating in November 2012.