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Scarlett Johansson's most iconic roles: Charlotte in 'Lost in Translation', Nicole in 'Marriage Story,' and more

Last updated on - May 17, 2026, 22:00 IST
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​Scarlett Johansson's most iconic roles: Charlotte in 'Lost in Translation', Nicole in 'Marriage Story,' and more

Scarlett Johansson is not just the highest-grossing actress in Hollywood history — she is genuinely one of the most versatile performers of her generation, capable of carrying a billion-dollar action franchise and a quiet, devastating indie drama with equal conviction. With two simultaneous Oscar nominations to her name, few careers have the kind of range hers does. Here are her most iconic roles streaming right now.

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​'Ghost World' (2001)

This is where it all started, a teenage Scarlett playing Rebecca, the more grounded and quietly practical half of a duo of deadpan, fiercely antisocial best friends navigating the awkward stretch between high school and real life. It is a sharp, darkly funny coming-of-age film that earned her first major recognition, and watching it now, you can already see the effortless cool she would carry into every role that followed. For fans of dry indie comedies with genuine heart underneath, this one is on Prime Video.

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​'Lost in Translation' (2003)

Scarlett plays Charlotte, a young newlywed wandering through Tokyo while her photographer husband works, finding an unlikely and deeply tender connection with a fading movie star played by Bill Murray. It is a film that runs almost entirely on atmosphere and longing. Very little happens, and yet you feel everything, and Scarlett's quiet, searching performance is what holds the whole thing together. She won a BAFTA for Best Actress for this role, and it remains one of the most quietly devastating films she has ever made. For fans of slow-burn emotional drama, this one is on Prime Video and Hotstar.

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​'Match Point' (2005)

Scarlett plays Nola Rice, an aspiring American actress caught in a dangerous, obsessive affair with a social-climbing former tennis star in London's upper-class circles. It is one of her most quietly seductive and unsettling performances, a film built entirely on tension and moral rot, and she holds her own against a script that keeps pulling the rug out from under you. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for this role, and it is streaming on Apple TV and Prime Video.

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​'Lucy' (2014)

Scarlett plays Lucy, an ordinary woman who is forcibly turned into a drug mule. When the synthetic drug leaks into her system, she begins developing extraordinary psychokinetic powers that keep evolving beyond anything human. It is a slick, relentless sci-fi action film that asks you to switch off your logic and just enjoy watching Scarlett absolutely own every frame she is in, which she does effortlessly. A box office phenomenon that proved she could carry a full-scale action film entirely on her own, it is available on Prime Video and Netflix.

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​'Marriage Story' (2019)

This is arguably the most emotionally raw performance of Scarlett's career; she plays Nicole, an actress navigating a slow and painful divorce from her theatre director husband, and the film follows both of them trying to remain decent people while a legal process quietly dismantles everything they built together. The film's centrepiece scene, a screaming argument between Scarlett and Adam Driver, is one of the most shattering pieces of acting in recent cinema history. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for this role, and it is on Netflix.

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​'Jojo Rabbit' (2019)

In the same year she earned her Best Actress Oscar nomination, Scarlett was simultaneously nominated for Best Supporting Actress for this one, a dark satire set in Nazi Germany, where she plays Rosie, a mother secretly hiding a Jewish girl in her home while her young son's imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler. It is a deeply unusual film, funny, heartbreaking, and politically sharp all at once, and Scarlett brings a luminous, grounded warmth to a role that could easily have been overshadowed by the film's more outrageous elements. Streaming on Hotstar.

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​'Black Widow' (2021)

After a decade of playing Natasha Romanoff across some of the biggest films ever made, Scarlett finally got her own standalone story, and it plays less like a superhero film and more like a spy thriller about a woman confronting the trauma of what was done to her as a child. The film digs into Natasha's past as a trained assassin and the makeshift family she has to reunite with to dismantle the programme that shaped her, and Scarlett plays every layer of it with a physical and emotional precision that the character always deserved more of. Streaming on Hotstar.

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