All All. Sign In. My angels. List activity. Jodie Foster. Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R. This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received two Oscars before she was thirty years of age. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in The Accused and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs Scarlett Johansson.
Actress Producer Director Lost in Translation 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 grandfather was writer Ejner Johansson. Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother started taking her to auditions. 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. She would audition for commercials but took rejection so hard her mother began limiting her to film tryouts.
She made her film debut at the age of nine, as John Ritter's character's daughter in the fantasy comedy North 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.
Although the film was not a box office success, she received praise for her breakout role in Ghost World , credited with "sensitivity and talent [that] belie her age". Since then, she has appeared as part of an ensemble cast in the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You , the action superhero film Iron Man 2 , the comedy-drama We Bought a Zoo and starred as the original scream queen, Janet Leigh , in Hitchcock With more than a decade of work already under her belt, Scarlett has proven to be one of Hollywood's most talented young actresses.
