Whether she's giving us high-octane action, tear-inducing dramatics or hold on to your sides humour, the actress has certainly got 'it' in spades.
And she isn't slowing down any time soon - her groundbreaking new role in Ghost in the Shell looks destined to be one of the biggest new franchises at the box office.
So as she's set to mesmerise as the gun-toting robotic police commander in the live-action movie, due out this month, let's look at roles in which the screen siren continues to defy convention and demand our attention on the big screen.
Set in 2070, Ghost in the Shell tackles the world where humans and technology have collided. Scarlett plays the Major, a cyborg in female form who is tasked with stopping another robot from hacking into the system and causing chaos by attacking technological advances.
A big screen adaptation of the classic manga tale, Scarlett proves her versatility once again as she coolly navigates the role of cyber-terrorist commander with all the flair of a futuristic femme fatale.
Starring alongside Juliet Binoche in the Rupert Sanders movie, Scarlett takes cyber-punk to out of this world levels and is set to thrill fans with one of the most forward-thinking box office sensations in recent years.
Lucy
She could have her pick of rom-coms, blockbusters and mainstream movies, but Scarlett isn't one to play it safe and cemented her place as Hollywood's most fearless actress when she took on her role as Lucy.
A hapless, make-up smeared drug mule in the opening sequences, the 'blue powder the kids are going mad for' she is carrying in her stomach explodes, entering her bloodstream and sending her brain into overdrive.
The film continues with the loopy complexity director Luc Besson is renowned for and Scarlett delivers a perfect performance; the more sharp her character's mind becomes, the more detached her performance is.
If a super-human with a brain capacity running at 100 per cent isn't high octane enough, Scarlett's Parisian rush-hour car chase put the brakes on any unfounded criticism heading her way.
Under The Skin
Freaky, sexy, terrifying - three words that sum up one of Scarlett's most outlandish film picks of all time.
Under The Skin well and truly did what it said on the tin when it creeped into cinemas in 2014, the year the blonde bombshell threw caution to the wind and accepted some of the most shocking roles in Hollywood.
Only this time, she was in Glasgow, in a black wig and leopard print jacket, roaming the streets in a clapped-out Ford transit van.
The reason? She played a man-consuming alien pretending to be a sex mad hooker, of course.
Visually captivating and breathtakingly tense, Under The Skin was the film which put Scarlett - who seemed just as out of place in the brutal Scottish cityscape as her extra-terrestrial character - in a league of her own.
Ghost World
Freaks, geeks and everything in between, Ghost World is one of the best films about what it’s like to be an outsider.
She may be famed for being one of the big screen’s most attractive stars, but with her turn as the cynical Rebecca in the Terry Zwigoff coming-of-age story, Scarlett really proves her acting chops.
Teaming up with the ever-brilliant Thora Birch, the film looks at the struggle to maintain friendships throughout our youth, especially if we have just been thrown together due to the unfortunate role as school misfits.
Avengers
When the black catsuit-wearing, Kung-Fu kicking, backflipping Black Widow was being introduced to Iron Man fans in 2010, there was only one woman with the attitude to bring the secret agent to life. Step up Miss Johansson.
Taking on the role of Natasha Romanoff, a Russian spy who defected to the US, Scarlett more than gives the big boys such as Robert
Downey Jr. and Chris Evans a run for their money in the fighting and wisecracking stakes
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Now there is talk that fans can get a full film of just the Black Widow as negotiations start for a standalone movie.
Scarlett says: ‘There are so many ways you can go. I think it would just have to be very much like its own specific thing. It would have to have its own specific vibe. It would have been totally different than any of the other standalone films.’
No capes, no being saved by a man, Scarlett has helped rewrite the rulebook when it comes to female superheroes.
Her
Not many stars can rule the screen without even appearing on it, but that’s exactly what Scarlett did in the acclaimed movie Her.
With Joaquin Phoenix falling in love with a computer operating system, beguilingly voiced by Scarlett, this unlikely matching tells us all we need to know about the ever-increasing obsession with technology.
Don Jon
While box office blockbusters and meaty roles are her bread and butter, Scarlett can do quirky comedy with the best of them.
In Don Jon, she plays the feisty New Jersey girl who is obsessed with rom-coms and becomes the fantasy girl of gym-mad, porn addict Italian American, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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