Vanessa Johansson

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Vanessa Johansson (born 12 January 1980) is an American actress. She recently finished filming a lead role in the film "Sharks in Venice", in Sofia, Bulgaria. [ [http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/Theme_Culture/Material/clnb117.htm Cultural Life news briefs] , "Radio Bulgaria" (11 July 2007)]

Background

Johansson was born in New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from a Jewish American family from the Bronx.cite web | title=Neil Young's Film Lounge | work=Peter Webber on Girl with a Pearl Earring | url=http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/peterwebberinterview.html | accessdate=April 12 | accessyear=2006] [http://www.parade.com/export/sites/default/articles/editions/2007/edition_03-11-2007/Scarlett_Johansson "More Than A Pretty Face"] "Parade"] [http://www.esquire.com/women/the-sexiest-woman-alive/ESQ1106MYSTWOMAN_136 Scarlett Johansson Is the Sexiest Woman Alive, 2006 - Esquire ] ] Johansson's parents met in Denmark, where her mother lived with Johansson's maternal grandmother, Dorothy, a former bookkeeper and schoolteacher.cite web | title=The Jewish Forward | work=The Scarlett Grandma | url=http://www.forward.com/articles/the-scarlett-grandma/ | accessdate=April 12 | accessyear=2006] Johansson's younger sister is actress Scarlett Johansson. She also has two brothers, Adrian and Hunter; and a half-brother, Christian, from her father's re-marriage. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

Johansson grew up in a household of "little money" with a mother who was a "film buff".

Filmography

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External links

*imdb|0424089
* [http://voicebank.net/default.jsp?ptype=talent_home&folder=%2FWomen&tid=5831 Johansson] at "Voice Bank", Independent Artists Agency, Inc.
* [http://www.nelsonmadisonfilms.com/index1.html Shifted website]