Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City.[1][2] Her father, Karsten Olaf Johansson, is an architect originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was an art historian, screenwriter and film director, whose own father was Swedish.[3][4] Scarlett's mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, from Poland and Russia.[5][6] She has an older sister, Vanessa, also an actress; an older brother, Adrian; and a twin brother, Hunter.[7] Johansson also has an older half-brother, Christian, from her father's first marriage. She holds both American and Danish citizenship.[8][9] The actress is a maternal great-niece of Phil Schlamberg, the last known combat death of World War II, who was the wingman to Captain Jerry Yellin.