Scarlett Johansson was born in NYC. Johansson' father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, and Johansson paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Scralett mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx. Scarlett's parents met in Denmark, where SCarlett' mother lived w/ Scarlett's maternal grandmother, Dorothy, a former bookkeeper and schoolteacher.
Scarlett Johansson has an older sister, Vanessa, who is also an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter, (whose only film, Manny & Lo starred Scarlett); and a half-brother, Christian, from her father's re-marriage.