Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett comes from Slavic and Danish background. Whilst her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen, her mother Melanie Sloan is an Ashkenazi Jew from Poland and Russia.

In 2017, the Black Widow star was brought to tears whilst appearing on PBS’s Finding Your Roots after discovering that her maternal great-grandfather’s family died during the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto.