Tom Rothman from the film studio Sony Pictures recently certified that the blonde New Yorker with the dark voice embodies Hollywood glamor like Carole Lombard: This “very rare combination of glamorous, beautiful intelligence” makes her a true movie star. Rothman was one of many who showered Johansson with compliments in a New York Times feature in July. Woody Harrelson, who filmed the clever comedy “To the Moon” (2024) with her and Channing Tatum, raved about her wit and down-to-earth nature. “She’s a global superstar, but I’ve never noticed a hint of ego.”
Son Cosmo and daughter Rose
Her husband, comedian Colin Jost (42), also has a small role in the film, co-produced by Johansson. They have been married since 2020 and their son Cosmo is three years old. She shares custody of their ten-year-old daughter Rose with her ex-husband, the French journalist Romain Dauriac. Her first marriage to Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds ended in 2010 after a good two years.
Jost and Johansson met on the set of the satirical show “Saturday Night Live”. The actress has hosted the snappy show several times. In 2017, she transformed herself into Ivanka Trump in a skit and made fun of the daughter of then US President Donald Trump.
In the recent US presidential election, Johansson campaigned for Kamala Harris. Together with several “Avengers” actors, including Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk) and Chris Evans (Captain America), she pledged her support to the Democrat in a video link. The actress told the New York Times in July that she experienced the prospect of Donald Trump’s possible re-election as a “horrifying nightmare.”
In front of the camera as a child
Johansson has a Jewish mother with Polish roots and a Danish father. She took acting lessons as a child in New York. At the age of nine she made her film debut in the comedy “North” (1994), alongside child star Elijah Wood, directed by Rob Reiner. After “The Horse Whisperer” and the teenage film “Ghost World”, the young talent achieved his international breakthrough with “Lost in Translation” (2003). Johansson was just 17 years old when director Sofia Coppola cast her alongside Bill Murray. She plays the misunderstood young wife of a busy photographer who meets a Hollywood star (Murray) in a hotel bar in Tokyo who is filming a whiskey commercial in Japan. As they stroll through Tokyo at night, the unlikely couple cautiously gets closer to each other.
For Johansson, things continued to happen quickly in Hollywood. She played the muse of the artist Vermeer in “The Girl with a Pearl Earring,” a hardened one
Southern girl in “Lovesong for Bobby Long” or the amorous daughter of a strict father in “Reine Bosssache”. Old master Woody Allen brought her in front of the camera as a seductive starlet for “Match Point” and again for “Scoop” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”.
Her role as Black Widow in “Iron Man 2” (2010) was the starting point for countless Marvel films and a highly paid superheroine career. In 2012 she was immortalized with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The men’s magazine “Esquire” named her “Sexiest Woman Alive” for the second time in 2013. The business magazine “Forbes” declared her the highest-earning actress in Hollywood in 2018 and 2019.
She turned Joaquin Phoenix’s head in the science fiction romance “Her” (2013) with just her voice. He plays a melancholic ghostwriter who falls in love with a female computer voice named Samantha.
The only thing missing is the Oscar
Johansson has not yet won an Oscar, but in 2020 she was nominated for two trophies: for her leading role in the divorce drama “Marriage Story” and for her supporting role as a single mother in the Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit”.
She most recently starred in “Asteroid City” directed by Wes Anderson and in the directorial debut “North Star” by Brit Kristin Scott Thomas. She is currently behind the camera as a director. Her debut film “Eleanor the Great” is about a 90-year-old named Eleanor Morgenstein (June Squibb), who gives up her decades-long life in Florida after a death and moves back to New York alone.
Fans of the actress can already look forward to the next action spectacle. Studio Universal has announced another episode from the “Jurassic” universe, “Jurassic World Rebirth,” for July 2025. A research team is supposed to obtain DNA samples from the few dinosaurs still alive that are important for the development of a human drug. Johansson plays the intrepid expedition leader.
