Scarlett Johansson, the successful Hollywood actress who almost gave up her career
This Thursday, 'La Viuda Negra' is previewed in theaters with Scarlett in the leading role.
Scarlett Johansson before turning 25, is currently 36, she had already worked with filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Michael Bay, Sofia Coppola, Rob Reiner, the Cohen brothers, among others.
In 1994 she was her debut as an actress, at that time she was 10 years old, in the film North. According to Vogue Mexico, she was followed by roles in films such as Just Cause and Lucy Fell. She would play a main character in Manny & Lo (1996), earning her first Independent Spirit Awards nomination for best actress.
Later would come Fall and Home Alone 3 (1997). She would later act in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer (1998); My brother the Pig (1999); The Man Who Wasn’t There, Ghost World and An American Rhapsody (2001). At that time she was 15 years old.
The young actress's resume was joined by Peter Webber's The Girl with the Pearl Earring (2003); Lost in Translation (2003), directed by Coppola. With this film she was nominated for the 2004 Oscars. And normally you would think that with those roles her career is on the rise, but for her something was wrong.
And although today it seems that everything was easy for Johansson to enjoy several qualities, however it was not like that, since the American almost left acting because she did not have the roles that she aspired to.
“I feel like when I was in my twenties I was pigeonholed into a certain type of role. She was very hypersexualized. I guess at the time she was okay with everyone. They were different times. But that personality was not part of my own narrative, ”she told The Hollywood Reporter.
"For years it was really difficult for me to try to get out of characters that were a naive girl or directly the other woman of the protagonist," she added.
The change longed for by the actress would come in 2010, when she was invited to star in the play Panorama from the bridge on Broadway. "On opening night I felt for the first time that I had been given the opportunity to change the narrative of my life," she told THR. With this piece she won a Tony Award.
In 2013 she was also cast in the Broadway production Can on Hot Tin Roof.
According to Vogue México, she “became one of Woody Allen's 'fetish actresses'”, since she participated in three of his films, Match Point (2005), Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) .
In 2010, she also premiered Iron Man 2, a tape in which she gave life to Black Widow, a character with whom she achieved greater popularity. But she would not be there, since in 2012 she was part of Marvel's The Avengers.
The films are also somewhat contemporary, among them Hitchcock (2012), Lucy (2014), Jojo Rabbit (2019) and Story of a marriage (2019) stand out.
For Jojo Rabbit she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and for Best Actress for Story of a Marriage at the 2020 Oscars.
She has also provided the voice of her for the animated comedy SpongeBob SquarePants and in the film Isle of Dogs (2017).
Her character as Black Widow returns in 2021 to the cinemas of Ecuador in the eponymous film, of which she is also the executive producer.
"Scarlett Johansson set a record as the highest paid actress in Hollywood since 2018 with Black Widow, the person of hers in Avengers with whom she would receive the highest of the entire production," according to Vogue Mexico.
Awards
2003. Best actress for Lost in Translation, at the Venice Film Festival.
2004. Best Growing Actress at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the British Academy Film Awards for Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
2018 and 2019. Best actress in an action movie at the Teen Choice Awards for the Avengers saga.
2018. Best Actress for Infinity War at the People’s Choice Awards.
Innermost
Johansson will turn 37 on November 22. She is the daughter of a Danish father and a Jewish mother, who worked as a producer and from whom she learned a love for cinema. As she grew up, the American she wanted to be Judy Garland. She has a twin brother, Hunter, in addition to Vanessa and Adrian Johansson.
Her professional training began at an early age at institutions such as Professional's Children School and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
In addition to being an actress, she stands out as a singer, in 2008 she released her first album Anywhere I Lay My Head and the following year she released Break Up. In 2015 she formed the band The Singles.
She was married to actor Ryan Reynolds. Their relationship began in 2006, they married in 2008 and separated in 2011.
She has a daughter, Rose Dorothy Dauriac, from the relationship she had with journalist Romain Dauriac, whom she married in 2014, the marriage ended in 2016 and in 2017 they divorced.
Since 2017, she began a relationship with Colin Jost, writer of Saturday Night Life. In October 2020 they got married.
She is an activist for women's rights, she is one of the representatives of the #MeToo movement. She is known to be a great speaker.
