The highest-earning movie stars of 2019: Glory mixed with tragedy!
Hollywood’s most emotional – holds the No. 1 position in the list of the world’s highest-earning actresses. More than a decade of “dominating” in the world’s film capital, Scarlett Johansson has reaped more than enough glory but also many hardships and tragedy.
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Born to… act
Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in New York, of Polish and Danish descent, the youngest of 5 siblings with a tradition of art with her mother Melanie Sloan – a film producer of Jewish origin and her grandfather Ejner Johansson – an art historian, screenwriter and director. She also has an older sister, Vanessa, who is also an actress. Scarlett Johansson once shared with the press that ever since she was a little girl who loved sucking her nails, she was fascinated by the stage lights and wanted to become an actress.
Luckily for Scarlett Johansson and also fortunately for Hollywood, her passion took flight from an early age. Scarlett Johansson was sent by her parents to study at the Lee Strasberg Drama Institute from a very young age. At the age of 8, she had the honor of standing on the “temple” of Broadway. And just one year later, in 1993, at the age of 9, Scarlett Johansson had her first film role in the movie “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. At the age of 12, thanks to the movie Manny & Lo, she received an “Independent Spirit” nomination for Best Actress.
In 1998, at the age of 14, with the role of Grace MacLean in the movie “The Horse Whisperer”, Scarlett Johansson began to prove herself as a real professional film actress, not just a little girl who loved acting and knew how to act.
Scarlett Johansson made her first strong mark in her professional acting career with the movie “Ghost World” in 2001.
And at the age of 17, with her role in the movie Ghost World, the young actress possessed such skillful, mature, and steady acting that Terry Zwigoff – the director of the movie had to exclaim: “Close your eyes, listen to Scarlett, you feel like you are listening to a 40-year-old woman talking about life”.
That talent has helped Scarlett Johansson own records that are rare for actresses of the same age: at the age of 21, she appeared in 22 films, received a Tony Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated for a Golden Globe three times. In 2012, at the age of 28, the beauty’s name was placed on the Walk of Fame for her “great contributions to the film industry”.
“Black Widow” and “super movies” that bombed the box office
In the following years, at the age of early twenties when many other female colleagues were just “trying” to enter the acting career, Scarlett Johansson was the name that many talented and demanding directors in Hollywood trusted to “choose the face to entrust their gold”. Not disappointing expectations, Scarlett Johansson seems to have completely transformed into any role, from “Lost In Translation” in 2003 to “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in 2004.
However, it was not until the magical hand of the film “wizard” Woody Allen that Scarlett Johansson truly became a valuable “brand”.
The three main roles in 3 films spanning nearly 4 years by Woody Allen, from Match Point in 2005 to Scoop in 2006, Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2008 clearly portrayed a Scarlett Johansson who is extremely diverse in acting: both weak and fragile, and sharp and cunning.
If the psychologically profound roles in Match Point, Scoop, Vicky Cristina Barcelona… contributed to affirming Scarlett Johansson’s position as a great acting talent, highly appreciated by art critics, then the extremely successful portrayal of the female action star in a series of action movies has brought this beauty to another position: “box office queen” of Hollywood.
When she was cast in the famous superhero series of Marvel, although knowing Scarlett Johansson’s talent, few people could have expected that this beauty could transform into the cold and charming role of Black Widow Natasha Romanoff so successfully.
It is also because of the success of the character Black Widow that Scarlett Johansson continuously appeared in a series of Marvel films, from Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and most recently Avengers: Endgame (2019).
