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  1. Zoe Saldaña $15,954,482,035
    She won an Oscar for playing a lawyer in the musical crime film Emilia Pérez.
  2. Scarlett Johansson $15,630,452,777
    She replaced Samantha Morton as the voice of the AI in Her after filming had finished.
  3. Chris Pratt $15,427,662,760
    Actress Rae Dawn Chong discovered him while he was waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp in Maui.
  4. Samuel L. Jackson $14,845,216,047
    He was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral in Atlanta in 1968.
  5. Robert Downey Jr. $14,545,999,387
    At age five he made his acting debut as a sick puppy in his father's film Pound.
  6. Tom Holland $14,517,074,554
    As a boy he played the title role in Billy Elliot the Musical on stage in London.
  7. Tom Cruise $12,725,085,074
    For Rogue Nation he hung off the outside of a flying Airbus A400M without a stunt double.
  8. Chris Hemsworth $12,488,549,859
    He played Captain Kirk's father in the opening scenes of 2009's Star Trek.
  9. Tom Hanks $12,089,192,855
    He collects manual typewriters and uses them almost daily.
  10. Vin Diesel $12,070,449,592
    He voiced the title robot in the 1999 animated film The Iron Giant.
  11. Dwayne Johnson $11,827,209,198
    He was a backup defensive tackle on Miami's 1991 national championship football team.
  12. Chris Evans $11,722,822,120
    He played the Human Torch in two Fantastic Four films before becoming Captain America.
  13. Bradley Cooper $11,621,588,257
    He is fluent in French after six months as an exchange student in Aix-en-Provence.
  14. Johnny Depp $10,362,601,443
    Nicolas Cage helped him get the audition for his first film, A Nightmare on Elm Street.
  15. Mark Ruffalo $10,188,814,744
    He spent close to a decade working as a bartender.
  16. Emma Watson $9,290,607,605
    She first auditioned for Hermione at nine and went through eight auditions in all.
  17. Don Cheadle $9,236,149,513
    He took over the role of War Machine from Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2.
  18. Matt Damon $9,120,098,456
    Good Will Hunting grew out of an essay he wrote for an English class at Harvard.
  19. Dave Bautista $9,066,633,910
    In WWE he won the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
  20. Will Smith $9,020,634,884
    With DJ Jazzy Jeff, he won the first Grammy ever given for Best Rap Performance.
  21. Jeremy Renner $9,008,661,474
    Early in his career he worked as a makeup artist to make ends meet.
  22. Josh Brolin $8,908,478,964
    In 2018 he played two Marvel characters: Thanos in Infinity War and Cable in Deadpool 2.
  23. Karen Gillan $8,680,644,421
    Marvel turned the hair she shaved off for Nebula into a wig she wore in the TV series Selfie.
  24. Elizabeth Olsen $8,604,114,044
    She began acting at age four alongside her sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley.
  25. Harrison Ford $8,591,115,167
    Between acting jobs he worked as a self-taught carpenter, with clients including Joan Didion.
  26. Benedict Cumberbatch $8,574,729,613
    He provided the voice and motion capture for the dragon Smaug in The Hobbit films.
  27. Daniel Radcliffe $8,426,572,107
    He won a Tony Award for Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
  28. Steve Carell $8,353,526,114
    He was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 1999 to 2005.
  29. Jack Black $8,060,930,410
    His comedy rock duo Tenacious D has won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.
  30. Sam Worthington $8,029,326,032
    Before Avatar he had sold most of his possessions and was living in his car.
  31. Idris Elba $7,984,759,116
    He also works as a DJ, performing as DJ Big Driis.
  32. Hugh Jackman $7,905,204,029
    He won a Tony Award for playing singer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz.
  33. Chadwick Boseman $7,800,144,338
    His breakthrough came playing baseball player Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film 42.
  34. Brad Pitt $7,742,360,160
    He left the University of Missouri two weeks short of finishing a journalism degree.
  35. Letitia Wright $7,726,500,760
    Born in Guyana, she moved to London with her family when she was eight.
  36. Rupert Grint $7,716,174,588
    He won the role of Ron Weasley after sending in a video of himself rapping about it.
  37. Sebastian Stan $7,690,852,241
    Born in Romania, he moved to Vienna at eight and to the United States at twelve.
  38. Leonardo DiCaprio $7,586,653,042
    His mother first felt him kick while looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting, hence his name.
  39. Tom Hiddleston $7,190,874,422
    He originally auditioned for the role of Thor before being cast as Loki.
  40. Danai Gurira $7,184,046,998
    She wrote Eclipsed, the first Broadway play with an all-Black, female cast and creative team.
  41. Paul Bettany $7,030,330,556
    He voiced Tony Stark's AI, J.A.R.V.I.S., for years before playing Vision on screen.
  42. Benedict Wong $6,925,907,908
    He played Kublai Khan in the Netflix series Marco Polo.
  43. Bruce Willis $6,815,534,107
    In 1987 Motown released his blues album credited to his alter ego, Bruno Radolini.
  44. Liam Neeson $6,810,175,693
    He took up boxing at nine and won several regional titles before quitting at 17.
  45. Eddie Murphy $6,774,659,759
    He joined Saturday Night Live in 1980 and is credited with helping revive the show.
  46. Pom Klementieff $6,708,596,288
    Her parents named her Pom because it sounds like the Korean words for spring and tiger.
  47. Anne Hathaway $6,674,792,685
    She co-hosted the 2011 Oscars with James Franco.
  48. Ryan Reynolds $6,608,917,014
    He co-owns Welsh football club Wrexham, the subject of the series Welcome to Wrexham.
  49. Jason Statham $6,486,400,424
    Before acting, he dived for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
  50. Ben Stiller $6,378,433,484
    He is the son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.

Source: The Numbers: Top Stars in Leading Roles at the Worldwide Box Office · as of 2026-11

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