Scarlett Fever!

#yt:DFz5Zsh1GZY Few actresses today can boast of having been Woody Allen's muse at the age of 21! It took just a few years for Scarlett Johansson to become a cult figure. Now she is not only everywhere, she’s also got the magic touch. Beautiful, talented, sexy and yet open, she appeals right across the spectrum. Actress, singer and the new muse for Dolce & Gabbana, her striking face is hard to miss these days. We take a look back at a dazzling career which includes 27 films and two albums in 17 years. Respect!

So Lolita

Unlike Macaulay Culkin and Drew Barrymore before her, Scarlett managed to avoid the pitfalls of child stardom - alcohol, drugs and depression (take your pick!) followed by a complete disappearance from the screen. Displaying intelligence and discretion, she sailed calmly through the beginning of an already promising career.

In fact, the young Scarlett began on the stage in Broadway at the age of eight in the play Sophistry. In 1994, aged ten, she appeared in her first cinema role in Rob Reiner's North – almost precocious! After a few more appearances, the now teenage Scarlett began to attract serious attention in 1998 with the role of Grace in The Horse Whisperer alongside Robert Redford.

The part brought her general recognition and the first in a long series of professional rewards when she picked up the Young Star Award. And she was just 14!

Not really Lost... in Translation !

At the beginning of the millennium she joined the Cohen brothers team (The Man Who Wasn't There) but her career really took off in 2003 with the costume drama, Girl With a Pearl Earring and even more so with Sofia Coppola's magnificent Lost in Translation opposite Bill Murray, delightfully cast against type.

These two key roles earned her nominations at the Golden Globes and the Oscars. With a diploma in theatre studies in the bag, Scarlett was looking to diversify both her roles and her career. And it worked. All of Hollywood would soon be chasing after her pretty and oh-so-bankable face. Versatile, she switched gracefully and energetically between blockbusters (The Island, Iron Man 2) costume dramas (The Other Boleyn Girl) light comedy (The Nanny Diaries, He's Just Not That In To You) and independent movies with Brian de Palma's The Black Dahlia.

She became a muse for Woody Allen for whom she made three gems in quick succession: Match Point (2005), Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). International class at just 21 years old, Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow still haven't got over it!

And she sings too!

… And strangely, it works! Singing had long appealed to Scarlett.

She just missed out on the leading role in the cult musical The Sound of Music but she was invited to sing Summertime in an album of covers by Hollywood stars.

After a concert with Jesus and Mary Chain and an appearance in a Justin Timberlake video, she took the plunge with the studios. In 2007 she put out her first album Anywhere I Lay My Head, an interesting collection of Tom Waits covers.

She confirmed her success with a second album in 2009, Break Up, with singer/songwriter Peter Yorn. Rather than the standard fare served up by yet another actress who sings, this bitter-sweet folk offering is stimulating; Scarlett’s voice is deep and beautiful and the music haunting! The first single, Relator, was a refreshing little nugget.

Muse

Beautiful and sexy without being a tease, Scarlett knows how to enjoy life and have fun without doing a Lindsay Lohan and has quickly forged a pretty "girl-next-door". But smart with it mind you! It is no surprise then that the big names in cosmetics and ready-to-wear from high street to high luxury have all been chasing her. She first lent her name and her looks to the perfume Eternity Moment by Calvin Klein before representing Louis Vuitton for three seasons.

After a spell with Reebok and L'Oréal, she became the chic face of Moët et Chandon and then Mango. She is now the muse for Dolce & Gabbana for their make-up line and The One perfume. The glam Italians are spot on as Scarlett was voted the world’s sexiest woman FHM magazine in 2006! We can say for sure is that she will soon be back on the screen!