Scarlett Johannson had a big year in 2004, nominated for Golden Globe awards as Best Actress in a Movie, Drama, and Best Actress in a Movie, Comedy. She was nominated for her performance in the title role in Girl With a Pearl Earring, and as a young woman at loose ends in Tokyo, in the award-winning Lost in Translation. All this at the age of 19.

Johansson, born November 2, 1984, in New York, got her start in movies when she was ten years old, playing the daughter of John Ritter and Faith Ford in Rob Reiner's North. The next year she played Sean Connery's daughter in the legal thriller Just Cause, and a year later she won acclaim for her role in the low-budget sleeper, Manny and Lo. Her real breakthrough performance came in 1998, when she played "Grace" in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer, a part that earned her a Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award.