Los Angeles/New York | Superhero from childhood – Scarlett Johansson turns 40

Tom Rothman of the film studio Sony Pictures recently confirmed that the blonde New Yorker with the dark voice embodies Hollywood glamor as Carole Lombard: This “very rare combination of elegant, beautiful intelligence” is leave the real movie star. Rothman was among many to pay tribute to Johansson in a New York Times feature in July. Woody Harrelson, who filmed the crazy comedy “To the Moon” (2024) with her and Channing Tatum, criticized her mind and her 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), 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 the care of their daughter Rose, who is ten years old, with her husband, the French journalist Romain Dauriac. Her first marriage with Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds ended in 2010 after two good 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 mocked the daughter of then US President Donald Trump.

In the recent US presidential election, Johansson campaigned for Kamala Harris. Along with several “Avengers” actors, including Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk) and Chris Evans (Captain America), she pledged her support for the Democrat in a video link. The actress told the New York Times in July that she saw the prospect of Donald Trump being re-elected as a “horrible 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 teen film “Ghost World”, the young talent achieved his international breakthrough with “Lost in Translation” (2003). Johansson was only 17 years old when director Sofia Coppola cast her with Bill Murray. She plays the misunderstood young wife of a busy photographer who meets a Hollywood star (Murray) in a Tokyo hotel bar filming a whiskey commercial in Japan. As they walk through Tokyo at night, the unlikely couple carefully draw 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 tough one
A southern girl in “Loveong for Bobby Long” or a loving daughter of a strict father in “Reine Bosssache”. The old master Woody Allen brought her in front of the camera as a seductive star 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 several Marvel films and a high-paying superheroine career. In 2012 he was immortalized with a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Men’s magazine “Esquire” named her “Sexiest Woman Alive” for the second time in 2013. Business magazine “Forbes” named her the highest-paid 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 awards: 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 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 first 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 death and moves back to New York alone

Fans of the actress can look forward to the next action scene. Studio Universal has announced another episode from the “Jurassic” universe, “Jurassic World Rebirth,” for July 2025. A research team is supposed to get DNA samples from the few surviving dinosaurs that are important for developing a human drug. Johansson plays the leader of the exciting tour.