Highest Paid Actress: Forbes Releases 2015 List, Find Out Which Leading Lady

Sandra Bullock was the highest paid actress at this time previous year thanks to The Heat and Gravity, yet a far quieter June 2014-June 2015 – a time period that ended a month before Minions came out – dropped her out of the top 10.

After two years in the No. 2 spot on the U.S.-only list, Jennifer Lawrence has topped Forbes’ world’s highest-paid actresses list this year, earning an estimated $52 million over 12 months for work released worldwide.

We all know that movie stars get paid hell of a lot to do their thing on screen, and that’s been proven in the latest list of the world’s highest paid actresses of 2015. Let’s look at J-Law – four films gave her a $52 million pay packet. For the first year ever, Jennifer Lawrence was sitting right at the top! Chinese star Bingbing Fan made $21 million and Jennifer Aniston rounded out the Top 5 with $16.5 million.

At just 25, “Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence topped the list.

Majority of Downey Jr.’s million paycheck reportedly came from his “Avengers: Age of Ultron” movie project, along with the actor’s role in the upcoming “Captain America: Civil War” film with Chris Evans. She supplements her acting income with endorsements from Dolce & Gabbana and Sodastream.

“That doesn’t feel like anything really”, she told Empire magazine of her second place scoring on Forbes’ 2013 and 2014 list. Other well known actresses such as Emma Stone, who made $6.5 million, and Kristen Stewart, who made $12 million, didn’t crack the top ten either, choosing to take smaller independent roles over the course of the past year.

Some of the actresses on the highest paid list are surprising – Reese Witherspoon, Amanda Seyfried, and Natalie Portman among them. On the men’s list, she would be ranked between #6 (Tom Cruise with $40 million) and #7 (a tie between Big B and Salman Khan with $33.5 million).

Coming up behind JLaw and ScarJo was Melissa McCarthy (MelMc?) with $23 million.

Furthermore, the list noted Johansson could dispute for more than $10 million per movie.