Top Grossing Movie Stars

It surely helped with Sigourney Weaver's total. But she has also had a longer career than either Saldana or Worthington.

With Saldana's recent successes as Gamora, her number is likely to grow greatly.

So... this is about the total of all sold tickets* of their movies, not their salaries, right? *Does "box office" include income from royalties, merchandising and so on?

Box office has nothing to do with salaries, merchandising, etc. Only paid attendance.

Yes, every actor in Titanic received the entire box office gross. That's why you never see Billy Zane anymore - it takes a long time to spend $658 Million.

James Earl Jones says hi. 4 Star Wars movies, The Lion King, Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October, Coming to America and Field of Dreams would put him near the top of the list.

For some reason James Earl Jones isn't even listed on Box Office Mojo. I was thinking the same thing and I'm pretty sure they missed a few others as well.

I got a freebie with Tommy Lee Jones because I thought the same thing. He's undoubtedly a major character in all or nearly all of those films.

Wasn't he in clear and present danger too? Or did he die by then?

No but his character in that movie died.

sure it does...add up each person's individual movies up by hand according to worldwide box office...worldwide box office shows up for each movie

Great quiz!

Angelina gets in a lot of movies but which of them have grossed a lot?

I find a lot of her movies gross.

or the male actors are paid more :)

Great quiz. Its amazing how blank your mind goes when you're trying to think of every actor/actress out there right now

This one was harder than I thought.

can't believe Meryl Streep isn't on the list!

Morgan Freeman is now ahead of Eddie Murphy. Staley Tucci (2.79b), Cate Blanchett (2.77b), Bradley Cooper (2.46b), Hugh Jackman (2.238b), Elizabeth Bank (2.247b) etc etc. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/?view=Actor&pagenum=1&sort=sumgross&order=DESC&&p=.htm

I got Ralph Fiennes and Michael Caine but not Leo DiCaprio and Will Smith. wtf brain?

how can robin williams be on there he's dead

I understand this list is accurate per the source, but my gawd, I have a lot of trouble with the way the boxofficemojo website calculates "major" roles! Skarsgard did not have a major role in most of his high grossing movies! He was maybe 12th down the list on The Avengers.

Yes but he did "star" in The Hunt For Red October as Captain Tupolev, commander of the Soviet Alfa class submarine V.K. Konavalov. Yes, I am a huge fan of Hunt For Red October. (Movie not book)

Their total is $143,630,000,000 together. If it we in GDP rankings, it'd be 58th largest GDP.

If all the ticket sales occurred in the same year.

How is it that there are 40 men here and 10 women? And the highest ranking is only 15th? Really says something about the entertainment industry, doesn't it...

It says something about the movies people see, not the movies that are made. There's no disputing the majority of movies focus on men rather women, but these figures are based only on what movies lots of people go see.

how is it that grint, radcliffe and watson make the list, but not rickman? he was in all of the potter movies with those 3 as well as a shit ton of more movies than all 3 of them made combined?

and no ratzenberger...dude has been in every pixar film...according to data i saw...he should rank like 2nd

Your Rickman point has some validity, but Ratzenberger was only a major character in the Toy Story movies (and even that is questionable).

how about making a quiz using this data? http://www.the-numbers.com/people/records/top-grossing-stars-in-all-roles

Not likely. Number 2 on that list is Frank Welker, a pure voice actor who's worked on over 100 films, but no one would ever guess.

I love how Stan Lee of all people is now at the top of this list.

Harrison Ford is pretty obviously number 1 now after the third highest grossing film of all time was released last December. I'm also really surprised how people like Angelina Jolie, Alan Rickman and James Earl Jones aren't on there :/

Can McKellan be accepted for McKellen?

Andy Serkis?

You might not recognize him if you saw him, but you've probably seen his work before. His roles have included, among many others, Snoke in The Force Awakens, Caesar in the Planet of the Apes remake, Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies, and King Kong. He's best known for doing mo-cap work. Since he is often portraying an expensive special effect, he ends up in a lot of very big-budget blockbusters. Probably his biggest role where he actually played a human being was as Ulysses Klaue, the arms dealer in Avengers 2 and Black Panther.

Why is Chris Pratt not on here? He was in guardians of the Galaxy,magnificent seven, and Jurassic World. Jurassic World alone should have made him rich, considering it holds the record for biggest opening weekend in history.

Have people also forgotten about Adam Driver, who is surely a billionaire thanks to Force Awakens

Huh? You're joking, right? You do understand that not every dollar spent on a movie goes into an actor's pocket?

Why in the name of Arceus is Christopher Lee not up there

I got Elizabeth Banks but missed Robert downey jr

Raise your hand if you think Chris Pratt,Christopher Lee, and Adam Driver should be up here

Shouldn't Chris Evans be up there

And Tom Hiddleston?

Ok I know he's not technically an actor, but shouldn't Matthew Wood (of voicing General Grievous fame) be up here? I mean seriously, how much did Revenge of the Sith gross?

Not nearly enough to make this list. All these actors have billions of dollars worth of movies, whereas Episode III didn't even gross $1 billion.

Emmmmmm........ Where's McGregor? I'd call his role of Obi-Wan Kenobi pretty major

He's #48 now. this quiz needs updated.

Where. Is. James. Spader. If you've seen avengers: age of Ultron, you know it grossed a lot (not adjusted for inflation) so James Spader, who voiced and motion captured Ultron would be pretty major

Joey, ratzenberger voiced Hamm, P.T. Flea, Remy......

This quiz needs to be updated. With Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2, Fate of The Furious, Beauty and The Beast, The Force Awakens and other films, nine people have been replaced and a whole lot of jumping has occurred, notably, Anthony Daniels jumping up to No. 12 and Scarlett Johanssen cracking the top ten.

that is true, but if you go the route of putting the actors and actresses lesser known movies as a hint, this would be more skill based

It is pretty ridiculous. I actually went and counted. Of the 50 actors who appear on this list, 21 of them have a MCU movie listed as their highest-grossing film. And four more have appeared in at least one movie in the franchise (Serkis, Tucci, Blanchett, and Damon) adding to a total of 25 MCU actors. Literally half of the list is full of this franchise.

Then you have those who appeared in a Star Wars film, which is 9, but if you exclude those who have also appeared in the MCU (Jackson, Serkis, Favreau, and Portman), then the number increases by 5. So 60% of all the people on this list have appeared in either an MCU film, a Star Wars film, or both.

The voice acting really throws me off. Looking at the source, the top grossing film on the resume of Ian Mckellen (i.e. Magneto and Gandalf) is now "Beauty and the Beast".

I really wish there were a way for this to be more qualitative. If it included some function of what percentage of the gross these people could really lay claim to, then Elizabeth Banks would have no business on this list. She gets credit for all the Hunger Games and Spider-Man movies as if she were the star. Meanwhile the actual stars of those movies don't even crack this list.

I ran into Idris Elba the other day. Such a nice person!

I'm starting to think BoxOfficeMojo is gathering pretty questionable data, given how many people are not on this list that I'm sure have been in enough big films to make more than $2.5 billion domestic gross. Also, what counts as "starring" for purposes of this list? Does merely being in a movie count, even if it's in a supporting role?

that weird feeling when you realize Will Ferrell and Arnold Schwarzenegger are not on the list.

I find this list to be pretty suspect.

you should put stan lee because he's in the x-men,princess diares,the mcu and the fantastic four

How the heck does Elizabeth Banks get on here? I know she had small roles in the first three Spider-Man movies and in The Hunger Games, but aren't there a bunch of recurring cast members of the Star Wars, Harry Potter, and MCU films that don't make the list?

It's just a rubbish list. Some actors are not included. Some supporting roles are counted as starring roles and some starring roles are not counted. Inconsistent and arbitrary. Elizabeth Banks has not had 47 major roles in movies. She's had maybe 4.

I'm very sceptical about this list. Surely the total gross of the eight Harry Potter films would be enough to put every Harry Potter star on here. What are they counting as "starring"?

yes it's a really bad list because their rationale for "starring" role is totally inconsistent actor to actor, film to film, making the resulting list almost meaningless.

Am I missing something? Where's Leo Dicaprio

DiCaprio is just missing out: 2.52 bil. He's #72 on the list though. Guess there were a few shifts here and there since the last update.

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Not sure when this was last updated, but a whole whopping 11 people have crawled their way onto the list. (Mostly Endgame stars, but Lupita N'yongo managed to make enough from Us to crawl up to 49 despite not appearing in either Infinity War or Endgame.) Poor Jim Carrey's gone all the way down to 75 on the list.

This quiz used to be a lot more fun. Now it's just a function of how many MCU actors you can name.

Mostly MCU, with a dash of Batman, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Shrek, Pirates, and Disney live action thrown in. Plus a few odd superstars that haven't been in any of those.

The proliferation of MCU actors here helps illustrate the point that their definition of "major role" is stupidly arbitrary. Gwyneth Paltrow and Idris Elba, for instance, did NOT have major roles in Avengers: Infinity War. And for that matter why is Anthony Daniels on here when Kenny Baker is not?

Natalie Portman, too... her role in Endgame was "major?" She didn't actually film anything for that movie. They cut together unused footage from The Dark World and inserted it in there for the sake of the story. She didn't even have a line.

It also makes you wonder why Samuel L. Jackson isn’t counted for Endgame even though he had pretty much the same amount of screen time as Portman. Hell, even William Hurt is credited for Endgame!

and Jon Favreau?? He hasn't had a major role since Swingers. Simon Pegg had a major role in The Force Awakens? I didn't even know he was in that movie. I looked it up and apparently he played the "one half portion!" guy at the junk pawn shop on Jakku, whose name only the most hardcore of fans would even know.

Jon Favreau had arguably large parts in all three Iron Man movies, and inarguably large parts in the two MCU Spider-Man movies.

Actually I think the only movies where Happy was impactful in the story were Iron Man 3 and Far From Home. He doesn’t really do much in the rest of those movies.

totally agree...pizz on superhero movies...at least give a movie that isn't a super hero movie as the hint...there isn't even a disclaimer that says each movie is their highest grossing film...if someone memorizes all the marvel actors then they score high...now if they put some of the actors/actresses lesser known movies as a hint, it would be more challenging for them...easier for me though, because again...pizz on superhero movies

Big lol for Meet The Fockers being the movie representing Robert de Niro

The original didn't make that much money by today's standards.

*Includes major roles only... It lists Endgame for Natalie Portman and she was blink-and-you-miss-it in that movie...

Yeah. It's not QM's fault, it's just that the list at BoxOffice Mojo is total crap.