Tinseltown is a mercurial avenue where nothing except change is constant. This is why it is never a given that the stars today will remain legends of tomorrow. However, actors who have lived Hollywood like a dream have gotten used to its slippery slopes by now, with their heels anchored with such a tightrope that onwards and upwards is the only way to go. Yet, to make it out every year as the one at the top is a dream that still makes Hollywood what it is, and Nicole Kidman may have ruffled a few industry feathers, leaving behind 2024’s highest paid actresses like Scarlett Johansson, among others.
Kidman took home a whopping $31 million in 2024, but how far were Johansson and co.?
A look at the highest paid actresses of 2024 including Nicole Kidman
Forbes recently rolled out the star-studded list
of the highest-paid actors and actresses of 2024. Without a doubt, Nicole Kidman is leading the pack as the highest-paid actress of last year with an impressive $31 million ($41 million gross)
. She starred in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple
, Lioness
for Paramount+, and Expats
for Amazon, pocketing more than $1 million per episode in each. She also had two movies on her credit list, Babygirl
and A Family Affair
.
YOU’RE MINE.
Nicole Kidman delivers an intense performance in Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl,” a tantalizing exploration of desire and power. The film collected the NBR Award for Best Actress (Kidman) and was recognized by NBR as one of the Top 10 Films of 2024.#babygirl #a24 pic.twitter.com/Wb5TCWJBBQ
— National Board of Review (@NBRfilm) January 3, 2025
Next up on the list to follow Kidman is Mariska Hargitay with $25 million ($29 million gross
), who has been Dick Wolf’s Law & Order: SVU’
s anchor for over 2 decades across 550 episodes. According to the outlet, she earns approximately $750,000 per episode
. The last name on the star-studded list is Scarlett Johansson, who made a staggering $21 million ($25 million gross) in 2024.
Johansson starred in Fly Me to the Moon
with Channing Tatum and lent her voice to the animated movie Transformers One.
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Though these three are the only actresses to have made it to the list, who makes up the top 3 highest paid actors of 2024?
Top 3 actors whose pockets were as big as their names in 2024
According to Forbes’ list of the highest-paid Hollywood bigwigs of 2024, the pack of 20 people is led by Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, with a jaw-dropping $88 million ($103 million gross)
. He allegedly landed the largest fee-plus-buyout in streaming history with Amazon’s Red One
. It was followed by Moana 2
’s pivot from a TV series to a movie, and as per an agent, he made “an ungodly amount of money.”
The next one to follow is Marvel Jesus, Ryan Reynolds
.
Reynolds bagged $85 million ($100 million gross)
in 2024 fueled his box office entry with John Krasinski IF
, a new season of Welcome to Wrexham,
reworking the script for It Ends With Us
, and the highest-grossing R-rated flick of all time
, Deadpool & Wolverine
. Kevin Hart rounds out the top three list at $81 million ($108 million gross)
following projects like Borderlands
, Netflix’s Lift
, Amazon Prime’s Die Hart 2: Die Harter,
Die Hart
season three, Peacock’s Fight Night,
Gold Minds
podcast, and 90 stand-up comedy shows.
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What do you think of Nicole Kidman outshining everyone else to become the highest-paid actress of 2024? Let us know in the comments below!
