Jennifer Lawrence Tops Forbes List of Highest Paid Actresses

The star tops Forbes’ list of Highest Earning Actresses, with an estimated $52 million in pre-tax earnings between June 2014 and June 2015. Despite the broader valuations, only one non-American made the list: Chinese actress Bingbing Fan, who ranked No. 4 with a $21 million haul.

But while she is definitely far from starvation, Jennifer is also miles away from her male counterpart, Robert Downey Jr. who made million.

Right behind her, in second place, was Scarlett Johansson with a staggering $35.5 million in the last twelve months. Add in her high fashion ad and endorsement for Dior, her Oscar award and cool girl attitude towards anything else which makes her in demand among movie producers and directors, it is no surprise that she’ll earn more than what she had previous year.

Jennifer Lawrence has starred in several movies since a year ago, ranging from “The Hunger Games” trilogy, “X-Men” franchise, “Serena”, “Joy“, and the 2012 controversial film “Silver Linings Playbook“, reported Vanity Fair. Only time will tell, but $21 million is hard to ignore. And while there’s a lot more important stuff in the feminist cause to squabble over than a million dollar wage gap for very wealthy, privileged people, it’s still important that we bring it up.

For her upcoming film Passenger, Lawrence successfully negotiated a $20 million pay check, reportedly double what her co-star Chris Pratt is set to make.

Forbes has officially released their list of this year’s 18 highest paid actresses around the world, and one of our all-time favorites is at the top. The women’s combined earnings came in at $660 million less than the males list, according to Yahoo.

You officially made the most cash money in the a year ago out of all the other actresses in the biz. Jennifer Aniston rounded out the top five with a year’s take of $16.5 million.

Some of the actresses on the highest paid list are surprising – Reese Witherspoon, Amanda Seyfried, and Natalie Portman among them. Julia Roberts – US$16 million 7. Bullock placed 15 on this year’s list with $8 million.