Scarlett I. Johansson

Johansson was born in New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx.[2][3][4][5] Johansson's parents met in Denmark, where her mother lived with Johansson's maternal grandmother, Dorothy, a former bookkeeper and schoolteacher.[6] Johansson has an older sister, Vanessa, who is an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (who appeared in the film Manny & Lo with Scarlett);[7] and a half-brother, Christian, from her father's re-marriage. Johansson grew up in a household with "little money",[4] with a mother who was a "film buff".[8] She and brother Hunter attended P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village in elementary school.[9] Johansson began her theater training by attending and graduating from Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2002.[10]