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After Emily Blunt dropped out due to other commitments, she was cast as Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2 2010.
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She auditioned for Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 but was considered too attractive; Rooney Mara was cast instead.
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She is three minutes older than her twin brother Hunter, which she says are the most important minutes of her life.
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She suffers from ornithophobia fear of birds and katsaridaphobia fear of cockroaches.
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She is the highest-grossing actress of all time and the 10th highest grossing actor overall, with $3.327 billion in box office; in 2016 she added $1.2 billion.
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During filming of Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015, she needed several stunt doubles due to her pregnancy.
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She is very close friends with Chris Evans, with whom she has appeared in nine films including The Avengers 2012 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014.
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She applied to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts but was not accepted; the rejection allowed her to focus on her acting career.
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She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6931 Hollywood Boulevard on May 2, 2012, with her mother, grandmother, sister, and Jeremy Renner in attendance.
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Her husband Ryan Reynolds filed for divorce on December 14, 2010, citing irreconcilable differences.
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On Finding Your Roots, she learned that her maternal great-grandfather’s brother Mosze Szlamberg was killed in the Holocaust in Poland along with two of his children.
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She has an adopted sister named Fenan, adopted from Ethiopia in May 2010 by her mother.
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She won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2010 for her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
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Her great-uncle, 1st Lt Philip Schlamberg, was a P-51 Mustang pilot who died over Japan on August 14, 1945, the day of the Japanese surrender.
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Italian artist Francesco Clemente included her portrait as the Queen of Swords in his deck of custom-painted tarot cards.
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She was named Hollywood’s Most Natural Beauty by a survey of make-up artists.
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She dislikes the nickname ScarJo commonly used by the media.
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In 2006, she earned $2 million per year representing L’Oreal cosmetics.
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The Looney Tunes Show 2011 created a character named Starlet Johansson resembling her.
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She replaced Brazilian Gisele Bündchen as the face of Dolce & Gabbana perfumes.
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She received an introducing credit for The Horse Whisperer 1998 despite it being her seventh feature film.
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She auditioned for roles in Jumanji 1995 and Elizabethtown 2005 but both went to Kirsten Dunst.
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Her older sister Vanessa Johansson is also an actress.
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She is one of five actresses to be nominated for two Oscars in the same year 2020 and lose both.
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She auditioned for a role in The Parent Trap 1998 which went to Lindsay Lohan.
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She was offered the role of Evey in V for Vendetta 2005 which went to Natalie Portman.
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Her mother Melanie Sloan is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from Poland, Belarus, and Russia; her father Karsten is Danish with Swedish ancestry.
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She was in a relationship with Jared Leto from 2004 to 2005.
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She has appeared on screen with Chris Evans more than any other leading man.
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Her first uncredited role was in a skit on Late Night with Conan O’Brien 1993 at age 8.
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She was offered the role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns 2006 which went to Kate Bosworth.
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In 2008, an eBay auction for a date with her to the He’s Just Not That Into You premiere raised £20,000 for Oxfam.
