Scarlett Johansson was just 11 years old when a role in indie film Manny & Lo earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination. At 14 she impressed audiences and critics with a mature turn in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer. But her ascension to A-list status really began with a lingering close-up of her shapely, pink panty-clad derriére in the opening scene of the Oscar-winning film Lost in Translation.

Johansson has continued to make career-building film choices as Woody Allen’s latest muse and portraying Mary Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl. Offscreen, Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive has dated Jared Leto and Josh Hartnett, and w