
Scarlett Johansson
An actress who is threatening legal action against OpenAI. She claims the company used a chatbot voice deliberately made to sound like her, after she had twice declined their offer to license her voice.
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Summary
Scarlett Johansson is an American actress and singer, born on November 22, 1984, renowned for her diverse filmography and for being the highest-grossing lead actor in history, with her films grossing over $15.3 billion worldwide. She has earned numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award, and received two Academy Award nominations. Beginning her career as a child actress, she gained early recognition in films like *Manny & Lo* and *The Horse Whisperer*, before transitioning to acclaimed adult roles in *Lost in Translation* and *Girl with a Pearl Earring*. Johansson achieved global stardom as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a role she reprised in eight films, including her solo feature *Black Widow* (2021). She was the world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019 and has been recognized by *Time* as one of the 100 most influential people. Beyond her professional achievements, she is married to Colin Jost and has two children. Recently, Johansson has been involved in a high-profile legal dispute with OpenAI concerning the alleged use of a voice similar to her own in their GPT-4o Omni model, raising questions about likeness rights in AI.
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Extracted Attributes
Awards
British Academy Film Award, Tony Award
Father
Karsten Johansson (Danish architect)
Mother
Melanie Sloan (producer and actor)
Education
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Full Name
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson
Occupation
Actress, Singer
Nationality
American
Public Image
Sex symbol, prominent brand endorser, supporter of charitable causes
Date of Birth
1984-11-22
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, United States
Highest-Paid Actress
2018, 2019
Academy Award Nominations
2
Highest-Grossing Lead Actor
Yes, over $15.3 billion worldwide
Golden Globe Award Nominations
5
Time 100 Most Influential People
2021
Timeline
- Born in Manhattan, New York City. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
1984-11-22
- Made her film debut in the fantasy comedy 'North'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
1994
- Gained early recognition for her role in 'Manny & Lo'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
1996
- Gained early recognition for her role in 'The Horse Whisperer'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
1998
- Gained early recognition for her role in 'Ghost World'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2001
- Transitioned to adult roles with her performance in 'Lost in Translation', for which she won a BAFTA Award. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2003
- Starred in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2003
- Starred in 'A Love Song for Bobby Long'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2004
- Starred in 'Match Point', marking her first collaboration with Woody Allen. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2005
- Collaborated with Woody Allen on 'Scoop'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2006
- Released her charting album 'Anywhere I Lay My Head'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2008
- Collaborated with Woody Allen on 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2008
- Released her charting album 'Break Up'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2009
- Made her Broadway debut in 'A View from the Bridge', earning a Tony Award. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2010
- Began her role as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 'Iron Man 2'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2010
- Appeared in the science fiction film 'Her'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2013
- Appeared in the science fiction film 'Under the Skin'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2013
- Appeared in the science fiction film 'Lucy'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2014
- Became the world's highest-paid actress. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2018
- Remained the world's highest-paid actress. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2019
- Received two simultaneous Academy Award nominations for her roles in 'Marriage Story' and 'Jojo Rabbit'. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2019
- Married Colin Jost. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2020
- Her solo feature film 'Black Widow' was released. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)
2021
- Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. (Source: Wikipedia)
2021
- Involved in a legal dispute with OpenAI regarding the use of a voice in their GPT-4o Omni model that she claims is too similar to her own likeness. (Source: Summary, Related Documents)
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Scarlett Ingrid Johansson ( ; born November 22, 1984) is an American actress and singer. Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $15.3 billion worldwide, making her the highest-grossing lead actor in history. Johansson's various accolades include a British Academy Film Award and Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. Johansson first appeared on stage in an off-Broadway play as a child actress. She made her film debut in the fantasy comedy North (1994) and gained early recognition for her roles in Manny & Lo (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), and Ghost World (2001). Her shift to adult roles came in 2003 with Lost in Translation, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She continued to gain praise for playing a 17th-century servant in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), a troubled teenager in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) and a struggling actress in Match Point (2005). The lattermost marked her first collaboration with Woody Allen, who later directed her in Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Johansson's other works of this period include The Prestige (2006) and the albums Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008) and Break Up (2009), both of which charted on the Billboard 200. In 2010, Johansson debuted on Broadway in a revival of A View from the Bridge, which won her the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, and began portraying Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man 2. She reprised the role in eight films, leading up to her solo feature Black Widow (2021), gaining global stardom. During this period, Johansson starred in the science fiction films Her (2013), Under the Skin (2013) and Lucy (2014). She received two simultaneous Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of an actress going through a divorce in the drama Marriage Story (2019) and a single mother in Nazi Germany in the satire Jojo Rabbit (2019), becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat. The world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, Johansson has been featured multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021 and 2025. 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. Divorced from actor Ryan Reynolds and businessman Romain Dauriac, Johansson has been married to comedian Colin Jost since 2020. She has two children, one with Dauriac and another with Jost.
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- Scarlett Johansson: The Oscar Nominee Has Been Acting Since Age 8
Actor Scarlett Johansson is known for her Oscar-nominated performances in Marriage Story and JoJo Rabbit, as well as her recurring role as Marvel’s Black Widow. Johansson began acting as a child, gaining critical acclaim for her role in The Horse Whisperer at age 13. She achieved widespread recognition with her impressive performances in the 2003 romantic movies Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring before entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the mega-hit The Avengers in [...] Skip to Content 1. Famous Actors 2. Academy Awards 3. Scarlett Johansson # Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson is an Oscar–nominated actor best known for the movies Marriage Story, JoJo Rabbit, and The Avengers. By Biography.com Editors and Catherine Caruso Getty Images We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. > 1984–present [...] Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish architect, and her mother, Melanie Sloan, is a producer and actor. She has a fraternal twin brother named Hunter, an older brother, Adrian, and an older sister, Vanessa. Scarlett also has an older half-brother, Christian, through her father’s first marriage and later gained a younger sibling when her mother adopted her sister Fenan.
- Scarlett Johansson - Wikipedia
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Johansson's father, Karsten Olaf Johansson, is an architect originally from Copenhagen, Denmark. Through him, she is a granddaughter of Ejner Johansson, an art historian, screenwriter and film director, whose own father was Swedish. Her mother, New Yorker Melanie Sloan, has worked as a producer. She comes from a Jewish family who fled Poland and Russia, originally surnamed Schlamberg; Johansson [...] Johansson first appeared on stage in an off-Broadway play as a child actress. She made her film debut in the fantasy comedy North "North (1994 film)") (1994) and gained early recognition for her roles in Manny & Lo (1996), The Horse Whisperer "The Horse Whisperer (film)") (1998), and Ghost World "Ghost World (film)") (2001). Her shift to adult roles came in 2003 with Lost in Translation "Lost in Translation (film)"), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She continued to gain [...] Johansson played Motoko Kusanagi in Rupert Sanders's 2017 film adaptation "Ghost in the Shell (2017 film)") of the Ghost in the Shell franchise. The film was praised for its visual style, acting, and cinematography, but was the subject of controversy for whitewashing the cast, particularly Johansson's character, a cyborg who was meant to hold the memories of a Japanese woman. Responding to the backlash, the actress asserted she would never play a non-white character, but wanted to take the rare
- Scarlett Johansson - IMDb
Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Black Widow (2021), and also headlined the sci-fi action thriller Lucy (2014), a box office success. With more than a decade of work already under her belt, Scarlett has proven to be one of Hollywood's most talented young actresses. Her other starring roles are in the sci-fi action thriller Ghost in the Shell (2017) and the dark comedy Rough Night (2017). [...] After appearing in minor roles in Fall (1997) and Home Alone 3 (1997), Johansson garnered widely spread attention for her performance in The Horse Whisperer (1998), directed by Robert Redford, where she played Grace MacLean, a teenager traumatized by a riding accident. She received a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress for the film. In 1999, she appeared in My Brother the Pig (1999) and in the music video for Mandy Moore's single, "Candy". [...] Since then, she has appeared as part of an ensemble cast in the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You (2009), the action superhero film Iron Man 2 (2010), the comedy-drama We Bought a Zoo (2011) and starred as the original scream queen, Janet Leigh, in Hitchcock (2012). She then played her character, Black Widow, in the blockbuster action films The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers:
- Scarlett Johansson Movies & TV Shows List - Rotten Tomatoes
Scarlett Johansson moved from being an indie darling to one of the most recognizable actresses in the world thanks to her standing as a member of Marvel's "The Avengers" (2012). A native of Manhattan, she began studying acting as a child and made her screen debut at the age of nine in "North" (1994). The actress played the daughter of John Ritter in the Rob Reiner comedy. Similarly, she was cast as Sean Connery's daughter in the drama "Just Cause" (1995). The actress earned her first starring [...] more than $5-billion dollars at the box office worldwide. She gained positive reviews for her role opposite Adam Driver in "Marriage Story" (2019) playing an actress going through a divorce. She also appeared in Taika Waititi's inventive "Jojo Rabbit" (2019). After appearing as Natasha Romanoff alongside a variety of other superheroes, Johansson's character was finally given a stand-alone film with "Black Widow" (2020). [...] thriller "Lucy" (2014). She would later join the ensemble cast of the Coen Brothers' Hollywood comedy "Hail, Caesar!" (2016) and starred in the live-action remake of the anime classic "Ghost in the Shell" (2017). She also starred with Kate McKinnon and Ilana Glazer in the comedy "Rough Night" (2017). Her run as Black Widow reached a whole new level with "Captain America: Civil War" (2016), "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018), and "Avengers: Endgame" (2019). The three films would combine to take in
- Scarlett Johansson Fan » Biography
Scarlett Johansson was born in Manhattan, New York on November 22, 1984 – on the 21st anniversary of the assassination of JFK. Even though a native New Yorker, Scarlett has a European background: her father is Danish, and her mother has a Polish background. She has an older half-brother who resides in Denmark and two older siblings: Vanessa and Adrian. But Scarlett isn’t the youngest in the family: her twin brother Hunter is three minutes younger! Miss Johansson was named after the Gone With [...] After finishing up The Other Boleyn Girl in late 2006, Scarlett Johansson took her first decent break from acting in five years. “It’s important for an actor to have a life you can draw from,” she explained. Scarlett’s non-filming schedule included a new campaign with Louis Vuitton, a music video for Justin Timberlake and going with Oxfam to India and Sri Lanka to report on tsunami-relief efforts in February 2007. During her ten-day visit, Scarlett learned how investing in education and basic [...] Ms. Johansson first gained serious recognition as Manny in Manny & Lo (1996). She played the young runaway orphan with great maturity and professionalism and the performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress – at the age of 12! Scarlett made her breakthrough in Hollywood in Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer in 1998, where she played the troubled Grace. Grace lost her leg and best friend in a terrible horse accident and is trying to go on. The film itself may
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