Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson first appeared on stage in an off-Broadway play as a child actress. She made her film debut in the fantasy comedy North (1994) and gained early recognition for her roles in Manny & Lo (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), and Ghost World (2001). Her shift to adult roles came in 2003 with Lost in Translation, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She appeared as a 17th-century servant in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), a troubled teenager in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) and a struggling actress in Match Point (2005). The lattermost marked her first collaboration with Woody Allen, who later directed her in Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Johansson's other works of this period include The Prestige (2006) and the albums Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008) and Break Up (2009), both of which charted on the Billboard 200.

In 2010, Johansson debuted on Broadway in a revival of A View from the Bridge, which won her the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, and began portraying Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man 2. She reprised the role in eight films, leading up to her solo feature Black Widow (2021), gaining global stardom. During this period, Johansson starred in the science fiction films Her (2013), Under the Skin (2013) and Lucy (2014). She received two simultaneous Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of an actress going through a divorce in the drama Marriage Story (2019) and a single mother in Nazi Germany in the satire Jojo Rabbit (2019).

She also reprised her role as Natasha Romanoff in Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Black Widow (2021), serving as an executive producer on the latter. Her subsequent credits include Sing 2 (2021), Asteroid City, My Mother’s Wedding, and the documentary Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023), followed by Fly Me to the Moon, which she also produced, Transformers One, and the animated short Sing: Thriller (2024).

In 2025, Johansson appeared in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme and starred as Zora Bennett in Jurassic World Rebirth. She also made her feature directorial debut with Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Her latest acting credits include James Gray’s Paper Tiger (2026), opposite Adam Driver and Miles Teller. She will also voice Venus Nova in Brad Bird’s animated film Ray Gunn, scheduled to premiere on Netflix in December 2026.