Scarlett Johansson - Michael Bay's The Island and Woody Allen

Scarlett Johansson starred w/ Ewan McGregor in Michael Bay's The Island in July 2005, making Johansson's debut as a female lead in a mainstream action film.

In the same year 2005, Scarlett starred in the Woody Allen-directed drama Match Point, which opened in December.

Scarlett received her 4th Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the role, but lost to Rachel Weisz.

Lady Gaga started hanging out downtown

After Lady Gaga moved out of Gaga's parent's house, she started hanging out downtown, performing in the Lower East Side club scene with bands Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand.

Finding Gaga herself surrounded by singers who all wrote the same style of music, Lady Gaga decided to do something fresh and provocative in the rock 'n roll underground: pop music.

Lady Gaga's entrepreneur father was shocked when she ran off to the Lower East Side to dabble in drugs and appear in burlesque shows at dive bars with drag queens and go-go dancers. "He couldn't look at me for a few months," Lady Gaga admits of her early experimentation. "I was in leather thongs, so it was hard for him — he just didn't understand."

Scarlett Johansson - third Golden Globe Award nomination

Scarlett Johansson was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2004. Also, Johansson starred in the films The Perfect Score, In Good Company and A Love Song for Bobby Long, the last of which earned Johansson's a third Golden Globe Award nomination.

Scarlett Johansson was involved 4 a short time w/ the film Mission: Impossible III, but was not officially cast b/coz of scheduling conflicts, although a falling out w/ the film's star, Tom Cruise, had been both widely reported and publicly denied. Scarlett Johansson was replaced by Keri Russell.

Lady Gaga - School and Music

Lady GaGa was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in NYC, to Italian parents.

As a child, Lady Gaga attended the private Catholic school Convent of the Sacred Heart. Having learned piano by ear at the age of four, she went on to write her 1st piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mic nights by the age of 14.

At the age of 17, Lady GaGa was one of 20 people in the world to have gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied music.

Lady Gaga honed her writing skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-policital order.

Scarlett Johansson - won the "Upstream Prize" for her "Lost in Translation"

Scarlett Johansson won the "Upstream Prize" for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Johansson's performance in 2003's "Lost in Translation".

The same year, in 2003, Scarlett Johansson was nominated for 2 Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes, one for drama (Girl with a Pearl Earring) and one for comedy (Lost in Translation).

Scarlett Johansson was also nominated for Best Actress for both films at the BAFTAs, and won Best Actress for Lost in Translation.

Lady Gaga - "The Fame" debut album.

Lady GaGa released Gaga's debut album in 2008, "The Fame", which GaGa explained was "about how anyone can feel famous".

To date, "The Fame" album spawned the hit singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", Lady GaGa's, the former of which was nominated for a Best Dance Recording Grammy Award.

Scarlett Johansson - Began Acting career

Scarlett Johansson began acting during childhood, after Johansson's mother began taking Johansson to auditions.

Scarlett Johansson made her film debut in 1994's North.

After appearing in several films during the late 1990s, including a very brief appearance in the Mandy Moore video for Scarlett single "Candy", Scarlett garnered praise & widespread attention for Scarlett' performance in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and 2001's Ghost World.

Joanne Stefani Germanotta

Lady Gaga with Birth name Joanne Stefani Germanotta was born on March 20, 1986), Origin Yonkers, New York, United States. She is best known by her stage name Lady GaGa, Lady Gaga is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

Lady Gaga was born and grew up in Manhattan, where Gaga attended private school at Convent of the Sacred Heart and later studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

At age 20, Lady Gaga began working for Interscope Records as a songwriter, penning songs for pop acts such as the Pussycat Dolls. Gaga has been influenced by rockers such as David Bowie and Queen as well as '80s pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson.

Lady Gaga's Genre(s) Pop, dance, electronic; Her Instrument(s)Vocals, piano; Her Voice type(s) Mezzo-soprano; Her Label(s) Def Jam, Streamline, Kon Live, Interscope, Cherrytree; Her Associated acts Lady Starlight; Her Website www.ladygaga.com.

Scarlett Johansson - School

Scarlett Johansson grew up in a household w/ "little money" w/ a mother, who was a "film buff".

She began her theater training by attending & graduating fr Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2002.

Scarlett Johansson attended P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village 4 elementary school.

Scarlett Johansson - Family

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.