Scarlett Johansson — Home Alone 3 to $75M Avenger

Johansson appeared in Home Alone 3 (1997) at 12 — a film nobody remembers. By 19, she was in Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring. By 25, she was Black Widow in the MCU. Across 10 Marvel films, she earned an estimated $75 million. She was the highest-grossing actress in box office history from 2018-2023. She sued Disney over Black Widow's simultaneous streaming release ($40 million settlement). Then she sued OpenAI over AI voice cloning. Johansson went from forgotten sequel kid to the actress who takes on the two biggest companies in entertainment and tech. That's reinvention.