Scarlett Johansson is one of the most versatile actresses who has performed some iconic roles like Lucy in the movie Lucy, Black Widow AKA Agent Natasha Romanoff in movies like Iron Man, Black Widow, the Avengers Series, Samantha in the movie Her and many other roles. Many of her movies were excellent Thrillers and Sci-Fi action. In her movies and life as an actress, she takes help from a number of things that can help her play her characters well.
If you are an Xfinity TV user, you might find many of her movies on channels that are offered by Xfinity’s Cable TV service. Scarlett Johansson is one of the highest-earning actresses who has the honor of working in some high-grossing movies as well. She has been honored with awards like the British Academy Film Awards for the category Best Actress in a Leading Role (Lost In Translation), Tony Awards for the category Best Featured Actress in a Play ( A View from the Bridge), Special Honorary Award for or her outstanding voice performance (Her), Best Actress (Lost in Translation), Best Supporting Actress (Match Point) and many others for her outstanding performances throughout her career. Let’s have a look a the different movies that you should watch being a Scarlett Johansson fan:
Lucy
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Nicolas Phongpheth, Choi Min-sik , Analeigh Tipton, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbæk, and others
Scarlett Johansson plays the 25-year old American girl named Lucy who gets tricked by her own boyfriend in Taiwan to work for a drug mule. She has to deliver a briefcase to Mr. Jang that contains around four packets of a valuable synthetic drug called the CPH4. After her boyfriend gets killed, Lucy gets captured and a bag of the drug is sewn into her body to get transported to Europe. She gets kicked in the stomach that makes the bag open inside her and she gets superhuman physical and psychological capabilities including mental time travel, telepathy, ability to feel no pain and telekinesis. She also loses all her emotions and becomes a ruthless killer. Using her powers she wreaks havoc on the people who captured her and escapes them. Lucy meets Samuel Norman and who commits to save her from her condition but after some time, she develops the ability to travel through time and turns into a black substance that spreads to all computers and other electronic devices becoming part of the supercomputer
IMDb Rating: 6.4
Avengers
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Tom Hiddleston, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Clark Gregg, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård and others.
Loki meets the other who gives him control of the Chitauri race to lead towards Earth and retrieve the Tesseract that has unmatched power. On Earth, Nick Fury and Dr. Erik Selvig are experimenting on the Tesseract when suddenly it opens up a wormhole through which Loki finds his way to Earth and tries to show his dominance to people of the Earth. Nick Fury activates the Avengers Initiative with a team of people who have extraordinary powers. This includes Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Iron Man, Hulk and Hawkeye. Nick Fury leads and his operatives work for S.H.I.E.L.D which is a secret agency stationed on Helicarriers. After a raging battle, Loki and the Chitauri get defeated and Loki gets transported as a prisoner to Asgard by his brother Thor
IMDb Rating: 8.0
Black Widow
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz. Florence Pugh, O-T Fagbenle, Ray Winstone, Olga Kurylenko, and many others
The movie is set in the year 1995 where a super-soldier named Alexei Shostakov and Black Widow Melina Vostokoff work as undercover agents posing as a family in Ohio having Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova act as their daughters for Russia. They are manned up to steal intelligence from S.H.I.E.L.D. and then escape to Cuba. There, General Dreykov trains Romanoff and Belova at the Red Room. After a few years pass by and Shostakov gets imprisoned in Russia. Romanoff defects to S.H.I.E.L.D. and bombs the Budapest office of Dreykov and kills her apparently along with his daughter named Antonia. Natasha Romanoff becomes a fugitive for violating the Sokovia Accord in the year 2016 and escapes from Thaddeus Ross to a safehouse located somewhere in Norway. Belova manages to kill a former rogue Black Widow and gets in contact with a synthetic gas that neutralizes the chemical mind-control agent of the Red Room. The movie will get you through some familiar moments of the Avengers’ storyline and a lot of action.
IMDb Rating: 6.8
Iron Man 2
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Cast: Robert Downey Jr. Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Paul Bettany, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Sam Rockwell, Gwyneth Paltrow and many other
After Tony Stark announces that he is the man behind Iron Man, Ivan Vanko watches the news in Russia. Ivan Vanko’s father who was a former employee of Stark Industries died. Ivan starts creating a miniature version of the arc reactor that is similar to that of Tony Stark. He starts using the Iron Man suit for peace and gets immense pressure from the government to sell his design which all becomes futile. Meanwhile Tony is secretly seen fighting the destruction the suit is causing to his body and he is on the lookout for a substitute. Vanko uses the arc reactor and weaponizes it like a whip and becomes Whiplash when he attacks Tony and gets defeated. With Pepper Pottes being the CEO of Stark Industries and Natalie Rushman as her assistant who later turns out to be Natasha Romanoff, a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative, Stark discovers a new element that he discovers hidden by his father Howard Stark long ago. Meanwhile, Justin Hammer hires Ivan Vanko to create a different kind of armored suits based on drone technology. Tony makes his way to the Avengers Initiative and becomes a national hero to defeat Ivan and expose Justin Hammer
IMDb Rating: 7.0
In the end, one can say that Scarlett Johansson is one of the best actors in Hollywood and has been providing the best entertainment to fans around the world. She will be celebrating her 37th birthday on the 22nd of November 2021.