![]() She appeared in the horror comedy Eight Legged Freaks (2002) with David Arquette and Kari Wuhrer. She was also featured in the Coen Brothers' dark drama The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand. Although the film was not a box office success, she received praise for her breakout role in Ghost World (2001), credited with "sensitivity and talent belie her age". In 1999, she appeared in My Brother the Pig (1999) and in the music video for Mandy Moore's single, "Candy". She received a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress for the film. Scarlett Johansson", while San Francisco Chronicle critic Mick LaSalle commentated on her "peaceful aura", and wrote, "If she can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, she could become an important actress." 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. Her performance in Manny & Lo garnered a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female, and positive reviews, one noting, " grows on you, largely because of the charm of. Following minor roles in Just Cause (1995), as the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw's character, and If Lucy Fell (1996), she played the role of Amanda in Manny & Lo (1996). She made her film debut at the age of nine, as John Ritter's character's daughter in the fantasy comedy North (1994). She would audition for commercials but took rejection so hard her mother began limiting her to film tryouts. She made her professional acting debut at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production of "Sophistry" with Ethan Hawke, at New York's Playwrights Horizons. Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother started taking her to auditions. ![]() Her grandfather was writer Ejner Johansson. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, a brother, Adrian, a twin brother, Hunter Johansson, born three minutes after her, and a paternal half-brother, Christian. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on Novemin Manhattan, New York City, New York.
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