Lawrence highest paid-actress
NEW YORK: Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence on Tuesday topped a Forbes magazine list of the world’s highest-paid actress for the second straight year,earning some $46 million, followed by Melissa McCarthy.
Lawrence, 26, took the top spot largely through a slice of the profits from the final movie in the Hunger Games franchise, as well as a big upfront fee for her forthcoming space adventure movie Passengers, Forbes said.
Yet Lawrence’s estimated payday was likely well below that for Hollywood’s leading men, Forbes said, despite the actresstour.sparkingadebateaboutthe gender pay gap last year. McCarthy took home $33 million
She declared she was “finished being in earnings, up $10 million from adorable” when it came to negotiating 2015 in part from her payday for better deals for herself. the controversial female reboot of
Lawrence’s 2016 earnings dropped Ghostbusters. It was the biggest annual 11.5 per cent from her 2015 total of $52 paycheck to date for the star of television million. comedy Mike and Molly. McCarthy, 45,
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Neither, however, came close to pop Scarlett Johansson of Captain star Taylor Swift, who was named the America: Civil Wars was third at $25 top earning celebrity of 2016 earlier million, down nearly 30 per cent from this year, pulling in an estimated $170 2015. Together, the world’s 10 highestmillion from record sales and her world paid actresses tallied a combined $205 million between June 1, 2015 and June 1, 2016, before management fees and taxes, Forbes said.
The estimates include earnings from movies, TV and endorsements from cosmetic and other companies.
Bollywood star Deepika Padukone is the only newcomer on the list. The rest of the top 10 2016 highest-paid actresses are Jennifer Aniston ($21 million) Fan Bingbing ($17 million) Charlize Theron ($16.5 million) Amy Adams ($13.5 million) Julia Roberts ($12 million) Mila Kunis ($11 million) and Deepika Padukone ($10 million).