A quarter of this global
list hails from outside the U.S. Aside from Chan, four Bollywood stars returned
to the ranking for the second year in a row. Shah
Rukh Khan ($33 million), the top-ranked Indian actor, banked as much as Downey Jr. ,
while Akshay Kumar ($31.5 million) earned the same as Brad Pitt in our
scoring period.
Combined, the world’s 20
highest-paid actors earned a whopping $703.5 million between June 1, 2015 and
June 1, 2016, before management fees and taxes. That’s more than three times
the $205 million tallied by the top 10
highest-paid actresses in
the same time frame.
Forbes
estimates earnings, before taxes and management fees, from movies, TV and commercial endorsements.
The rest of the Top 10 were:
1) Dwayne Johnson $64.5
million
2) Jackie Chan $61 million
3) Matt Damon $55 million
4)
Tom Cruise $53 million
5)
Johnny Depp $48 million
6)
Ben Affleck $43 million
7)
Vin Diesel $35 million
8)
Shah Rukh Khan
$33 million
8)
Robert Downey Jr. $33 million
10) Akshay
Kumar $31 million
