How much is Scarlett Johansson worth?
| Net Worth: | $145 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | November 22, 1984 (age 38) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 2 in (1.6 m) |
About Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson is well known by her roles in the films Lost in Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring and more recently, for The Avengers saga from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Black Widow. Scarlett has participated in more than 50 films (by acting or giving her voice) and she has been declared as the world’s highest-paid actress since 2018 according to Forbes Magazine.
She has also received numerous awards including a Tony Award, a Bafta Award, and several nominations for Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, among others. Being a fashion enthusiast, Johansson is also a prominent brand endorser for famous trademarks like Dior, Versace, Rodarte, Dolce and Gabbana, and Calvin Klein.
She also has a music career, Scarlett released two albums that reached a moderate success in the U.S. Anywhere a Lay My Head in 2008 and the collaborative album Break Up in 2009, apart from their participation or collaboration in other musical productions. She also formed a band called the Singles in 2015. Scarlett Johansson’s movies have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making her the ninth-highest-grossing box office star of all time.
Before Black Widow
Scarlett Johansson’s father was an architect called Karsten Olaf Johansson and was original from Copenhagen, Denmark. Scarlett’s mother, Melanie Sloan, is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from Poland and Russia. She was a New Yorker who worked as a producer.
Scarlett felt great attraction to the film industry since she was a young child. When she was seven, she enrolled at the Professional Children’s School, a private institution for aspiring child actors in New York. After a role in North (1994), Scarlet continued her acting career being cast in the movies Many & Lo, The Horse Whisperer, and Ghost World, movies from 1996, 1998 and 2001 respectively.
According to Johansson herself (and critics) it was the movie Lost in Translation from 2003 starring alongside Bill Murray, that really allowed her to define her career. It was her first adult role as a promising and very versatile actress — she also won a BAFTA Award for “Best Actress”.
After this period, Scarlett continued working on several movies which had low to medium commercial success (some of these with Woody Allen as director) but at the same time, this allowed her to firmly build her acting career by gaining experience and notoriety, as well as mingling with the right crowd.
Scarlett Johansson was in the Woody Allen movie’s Match Point (2005), Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). In total these movies grossed about $222 million at the box office.
Yet it was only in 2010 when she received the offer to take the role of “Black Widow” in the movie Iron Man 2 that Scarlett Johansson finally found her role. This role would land her in a string of big movie successes starring alongside some of the biggest names in the industry like Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans. The “Black Widow” character has taken Johansson from a lesser known actress from movies like Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and Lucy (2014) to a globally recognized star.
The movie Iron Man 2 was a good start for Scarlett within the MCU due to its commercial success — earning $623.9 million at the worldwide box office. Although Scarlett’s role wasn’t too relevant, this movie was her entry point for what would later become the third-highest grossing film of 2012 worldwide: The Avengers, also from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
She has continued working in more Marvel movies including: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame”(2019).
This has helped her grow as an actress yet also financially, as these movies were all an exceptional commercial success, with Avengers: Endgame beating Avatar as the highest-grossing film of all times. In total it grossed $2.798 billion dollars.
Even before Endgame, in 2018, Scarlett Johansson became the highest-paid actress in the world thanks to her character “Black Widow”, ahead of other high paid actresses like Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon.
As of 2023, Scarlett Johansson’s films have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making Johansson the ninth-highest-grossing box office star of all time. When she was the top grossing box office star of all time, she said “just because I’m the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I’m the highest paid. I’ve had to fight for everything that I have.”
Johansson’s Total Net Worth
The great interest Scarlett Johansson had about becoming an actress, specifically in Hollywood, played a key role in building her determination and later success. She started to study acting when she was only seven years old, but even before that age, she used to practice at home in front of the mirror and in front of her family.
Not only that, Scarlett was definitively born to be an artist; she once said that during the filming of North, that she “knew intuitively what to do”, so it’s easy to see in even her first performances, the great talent she had from an early age.
Having participated in more than 50 movies by only 35 years old, she was already the highest paid actress in 2018, and since then, Johansson’s fame has increased dramatically in the last five years. Yet in reality, Scarlett Johansson has been involved in TV and films since she was just eight years old. When she was 10, she took a role in the movie North (1994); this was her debut as a professional actress and the starting point for her successful career.
From her appearances in film, combined with her few appearances in TV series and the appearances that she has made as herself, in addition to her producing, directing and writing work. Scarlett Johansson has had earnings of around $250 million in her career to date. That figure also includes earnings from her endorsements, including lucrative sponsorship deals with L’Oreal, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Mango, Dolce & Gabbana and Moet & Chandon.
Scarlett has kept an open mind about her career and roles she would take on. She loved acting and tried to get involved in as many projects as she could. This attitude helped her get new experience and at the same time, it opened many doors along her career. That’s why when Marvel was looking for someone to fill the role of “Black Widow”, the role that would eventually make her a big star, she was already equipped and ready to take it on.
It has been reported that her earnings between 2017 and 2019 were $95 million. While she only earned $400,000 for her role as Natalie Rushman / Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2, she earned some $4 million for her appearance Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and similar rising amounts in Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War. In fact, it has been reported that after six appearances in the MCU, did Johansson earn $15 million for a movie with them. That is the amount that she earned from Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, $30 million between the two movies.
Often, Scarlett Johansson earns more from a profit-share agreement and not just a salaried paycheck. It has been reported that she often receives $10 million upfront with as much as $15 million from the movies profits. Of course if the movie is a flop she may only end up with a fraction of that amount, and no doubt, the $10 million is less than she could have otherwise asked for. It is a risk, however one that Johansson is prepared to take because she puts her all into the movie productions that she is a part of.
For Ghost in the Shell (2017) it has been reported that she earned $17.5 million.
Of course with all this money coming in, total earnings of $270 million, there have also been major tax obligations. First however, Johansson will have deducted her business costs. Of her income, $25 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $245 million, will have been taxed a rounded up 46% as Johansson has been residing in the state of New York. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $132.3 million dollars, having paid $112.7 million dollars in taxes.
Scarlett Johansson was married to Ryan Reynolds between the years of 2008 and 2011. There was no prenuptial agreement. However they were both working and earning multimillion dollar paychecks at the time splitting costs 50/50. It looks like they ended things amicably and walked away in divorce how they had walked together in marriage. She was later married to Romain Dauriac between the years of 2014 and 2017. They had one child together.
When it came to settle in the divorce they fought over custody of their child, Rose Dorothy Dauriac. It ended with joint custody being awarded to both parents. As the couple had signed a prenuptial agreement, Johansson was not ordered to pay Dauriac any sum of money.
Finally, Johansson married Colin Jost in 2020 and they remain together. They have one child together, Cosmo Jost, and appear to live a happy and stable life. It is also speculated that Johansson has invested much of her earnings into securities and real estate.
In 2008, she purchased an apartment in midtown Manhattan for a reported $2.1 million dollars. In 2013, she paid $3.5 million for a 1.5 acre spread in Amagansett, New York. The following year of 2014, she invested $4 million for a property in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. She put another $4 million into a property in upstate New York in 2018.
Her real estate investments may have grown, however her investments into the American stock market have almost certain earned her more. Of course there has been so much noise about “stock market crashes” that some high net worth individuals have also invested in things like precious metals, gold and also gold stocks.
It is likely that someone like Johansson has built a very diversified portfolio, with real estate and precious metals representing her safer bets but she will have likely profited most from her stock investments. That said, she has also likely incurred losses, and there are also fees, as well as likely lots of money remaining in cash. While the stock market has performed well over the last ten years, experts have also reported that it has been very difficult to predict.
In her personal life Scarlett Johansson has likely spent $8-9 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $4-7 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $17-19 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Scarlett Johansson has a net worth of a rounded down $145 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Looking at Scarlett Johansson’s career and life, it’s easy to understand why she is so successful. One of the key reasons is that Scarlett has never stopped working hard in her career. Even from an early age she was noted as being studious and would practice at home on a daily basis. We can also see how compromising she has been, for example working while being pregnant for the filming of Age of Ultron, or how hard she began practicing stunts and reinventing herself for the role of “Black Widow”. She has thrown herself into every acting opportunity she has had, and when the time came for a role of a lifetime, she was ready.
