Profile: Scarlett Johansson, actor

Scarlett Johansson is her own woman, unapologetic for working with Woody Allen, refusing to bend to the will of social media, and currently seeing Black Widow, her last film for Marvel, grossing hundreds of millions on its release

Scarlett Johansson: ‘I personally feel that art, in all forms, should be immune to political correctness’.

In brief:

Name and role: Scarlett Johansson, actor

Age: 36

Appearance: Impossibly glamorous green-eyed blonde with a distinctively raspy voice.

Newsworthiness: Black Widow, her Marvel swansong and the studio’s first female-fronted stand-alone blockbuster, has taken more than $200 million around the world in its first week on release.

In depth:

A certain cool-headed circumspection is required when profiling Scarlett Johansson, if only to avoid the roasting Anthony Lane, film critic for the New Yorker, received ...