15 Facts About Scarlett Johansson
#15 Avid Smoker
Scarlett is a passionate smoker. She says that she started smoking as early as the age of 15. Since then, she has been having troubles quitting smoking.
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Avid Smoker
Scarlett is a passionate smoker. She says that she started smoking as early as the age of 15. Since then, she has been having troubles quitting smoking.
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Scarlett's Nickname
Scarlett's nickname is Scarjo. However, she is not a fan of her gossip tabloid nickname ScarJo. In fact, the actress said in a recent interview that it's "awful."
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Some Random Facts
Scarlett's height is 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 meters). She is left-handed and a natural red head.
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Scarlett's Ancestry
Scarlett is half Polish and half Danish. Her father, Karsten Johansson, was born in Denmark. Her mother, Melanie Johansson, comes from a Bronx-bred family of Polish descent.
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Scarlett's Fears
Scarlett's greatest fear is cockroaches. Once she woke up with one on her face and no she can't stand the thought of being around cockroaches.
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Scarlett's iPod Music
Scarlett is a huge fan of jazz. Her favorite musicians are Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day, Rosemary Clooney, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, and Duke Ellington.
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Woody Allen's Fan
Scarlett is a big fan of the actor,director and writer Woody Allen. Johansson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress with her role in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005)
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Favourite Movies
Scarlett's favorite action film is Heat (1995). She is also a fan of Goodfellas and Mean Streets.
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Obama Fanclub
Scarlett is a vehement supporter of Barack Obama. "I think people are really in dire straits and they are very reasonably and understandably upset," she said. "I mean Obama inherited a turkey, he really did, and he's working to... he's fighting a kind of uphill battle in a sense and he has these past four years. And he never ran his first term as that -- he was always going to be a two-term election in that sense. And change doesn't happen overnight, you know, we know that."
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Child by Soul
Scarlett picked an interesting place to celebrate her 20th birthday. She celebrated at Disneyland.
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Scarlett's Parents
Scarlett's father Karsten Johansson is a NY architect, and her mother Melanie Sloan works as her manager. Her parents separated when she was only 13 years old.
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University Reject
Scarlett, applied to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts but was not accepted. The rejection, however, allowed her to focus on her career.
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Twin Brother
Scarlett, has a younger twin brother, named Hunter Johansson. Scarlett is three minutes older than Hunter. She also has an older half-brother (Christian Johansson), an older sister (Vanessa Johansson) and an older brother (Adrian Johansson, born 1976). (Photo: Hunter Johansson)
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Possible Roles
Scarlett has been offered to play many different roles during her carrier. Of the most famous characters she could have played are the Invisible Girl in Fantastic Four, Lindsey Farris in Mission: Impossible III, Evey in V for Vendetta and Lois Lane in Superman Returns. (The photo shows Scarlett as Evey in V for Vendetta)
