highest paid actors: The film industry, every day becomes more difficult, because of the heaped special effects and sophisticated author’s decisions of the directors. In this regard, more and more are the fees of actors who have to climb out of the skin. Today, the size of the salary depends directly on the actor’s talent. We have made for you the rating of actors, whose game deserves the highest praise and accordingly, whose earnings are sky-high for most ordinary artists. Their names are already synonymous with success, most of the films with their participation become masterpieces of world art.
The list of highest paid actors:
1. Mark Wahlberg
$ 68 million dollars
From his youth, Mark Wahlberg stood out from the crowd. He was terrifically developed physically, demonstrating, on what he is capable of in the video “Good Vibrations”. In addition, Mark Wahlberg recorded his own video training “The Marky Mark Workout: Form … Focus … Fitness” .1993 – Mark’s debut in the film industry. The first film was the picture “Replacement”. Natasha Gregson Wagner, the famous actress, played the main role in this film. Unfortunately, the film failed at the box office. But, it did not stop to get Mark attention of critics. Later, the artist appeared on the big screen, having performed a role in the “Man of the Renaissance” with Danny De Vito. The film received high ratings from critics. Then the roles changed, as in a kaleidoscope. Newspapers drew attention to Mark in 1995, immediately after the debut of the film “Diary of a Basketball Player,” according to the autobiographical story of Jim Carroll. In the title role was the famous Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mark got a secondary role. Although the picture received mixed responses, but Mark remembered the audience. Today, Mark is the highest paid actor in the world.
2. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
$ 65 million dollars
Dwayne “Rock” Johnson is a famous American wrestler. 1996-2004 passed for Johnson in the World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment (WWF / E). 2011 – return to WWE, periodically performing in the main brand Raw. The eight-time WWF / E champion, a two-time WCW champion, a two-time WWF Intercontinental Champion and five-time WWF team champion. The sixth champion of the Triple Crown won the Royal Battle of 2000. The New York Times included Johnson’s autobiography The Rock Says on the bestseller list, placing it first in the year 2000. 2001 was the beginning of Johnson’s career in film, in 2002 he was accepted to the main role in the film “The Scorpion King.” He was paid 5.5 million dollars, for which he was entered in the Guinness Book of Records, as the actor who received the highest fee, for his first role. Duane Johnson starred in many paintings.
3. Vin Diesel
$ 54.5 million dollars
Career Vin Diesel began in seven years, on the theatrical stage, when they with the guys made their way to the stage to play with props. At that moment there was a real rehearsal on the stage, and the director instead of, in order to expel them, distributed the text and made him learn and demonstrate. Best of all this came from Diesel, and he began to play in the theater, receiving for each performance of 20 dollars. He was so enthralled with him that he stayed in the theater until he was 17. But the financial situation did not improve, and the future actor decided to change jobs. He became a bouncer in a nightclub and took a pseudonym under which we now know him. By the way, his real name is Mark Sinclair. Then he got tired of this, and he decided to try his hand at the movies. His first role was an inconspicuous attendant, it was only afterward that the “Fast and the Furious”, “The Chronicles of Riddick”, “The Babylon of Our Era.” Vin Diesel.
4. Adam Sandler
$ 50.5 million dollars
The American series “Cosby Show”, was the starting point in Adam’s career, he played an episodic role. Then there was the role in the film “All Overboard”, where he plays a novice stand-up comedian. In addition to the movie, he worked as a stand-up comedian live, in nightclubs. Thanks to this, the famous comedian Dennis Miller learned about him, who advised him to try his hand at the “Saturday Evening Live”. His first paintings did not bring him success in the critics, and beginning with the melodrama “Love knocking down” about him began to speak. Although now everyone remembers it, only as a performer of comedic roles in the pictures: “Do Not Mess With the Zohan”, “Anger Management”, “50 First Kisses” and “Chuck and Larry: Fire Wedding”. Adam has his own film studio – Happy Madison Productions.
5. Jackie Chan
$ 49 million dollars
Actor, producer, screenwriter, as well as stuntman, martial arts master. All the rest is simply not listed. This is the first screenwriter who managed to combine the seriousness of martial arts in cinema and an easy, unobtrusive, comedic genre. Acrobatic elements and combat only by improvised means make his films very alive and saturated. For his contribution to the film industry, he was awarded the Oscar. The first film that brought success was “The Serpent in the Shade of the Eagle”. The picture was innovative: the comedy used martial arts. The next film, I remember it all, it was “The Drunken Master”. Blowing Jackie Chan and Ewan Xu Tien was declared the best comedic duet of that year. Chan became famous in the US, thanks to the film “Disassembly in the Bronx”, 1995. Continuing his work with the Hollywood film studio, he made films such as “The Hour of Peak”, “Hour of Peak -2” “Tuxedo” and “Around the world in 80 days.” Big popular was the cartoon “The Adventures of Jackie Chan,” after each series, Jackie answered the fans’ questions, where he told interesting facts about himself.
6. Robert Downey Jr.
$ 48 million dollars
The prison term and drug addiction did not break the spirit of the actor, and he found the strength to return to the screen, starring in a secondary role in the TV series “Ellie Mabel.” For this role, he received his first Golden Globe. And then it raced! A number of successful paintings, which are not ashamed to look even today: “Gothic”, “Zodiac” and “Kiss in Smile”. The beginning of the global media franchise, marked by the release of the “Iron Man”, made Robert world famous. In a series of paintings, he was given the role of Tony Stark from the universe of Marvel, which for a long time was remembered by fans and film critics. Although, according to Robert himself, to play this role, he no longer intends, since it has already become boring (he was an Iron Man, eight times in a row). In parallel, he starred in the film “Sherlock Holmes” and its sequel “Sherlock Holmes: The Game of Shadows” where the director was the famous Guy Ritchie. For the first “Sherlock”, Robert was awarded the second “Golden Oscar”. In addition to cinematography, Robert Downey – Jr. has been fond of Wushu Chun for many years.
7. Tom Cruise
$ 43 million dollars
American actor, film critic, director. Three times he was awarded the “Golden Globe” and three times he was nominated for an Oscar. As an actor, he made his debut in the film “Infinite Love” in 1981. But the first film that brought him fame was “Risky business” in 1983. He was married to Nicole Kidman, with whom, they starred in the cult film “With wide eyes closed.” Sometimes the behavior of the actor is considered too eccentric: on the show of Oprah Winfrey, he vigorously expressed his feelings for the actress Keti Holmes, which served as a plot for banter in the movie “Scary Movie 4”. On this banter over the Cruise, did not end, in the comedy cartoon “South Park”, in the series “Stuck in the closet,” the actor was exposed to a common laughingstock. This hooked Tom, and he even threatened to refuse to film in the movie “Mission Impossible 3”. But the company Paramount, which was in charge of the channel.
8. Shahrukh Khan
$ 38 million dollars
After the institute, Shahrukh preferred the profession of an actor, working on his specialty. The debut for him was 1988 when he starred in several TV series. When he moved from Delhi to Bombay, he decided to film, preferring his series. In 1992, for the film “Mad Love”, he received the Bollywood award for best debut. In the film “Playing with Death,” he played the main antagonist and won the award as the performer of the best male role. In 2002, he played in the most expensive Bollywood film – Devdas. In early 2017, the screens went “Rich”, this is the first picture with the participation of Khan, banned in several countries. In the same year came “Jab Harry Met Sejal”, in which he starred with Anushka Sharma, his old colleague, the film was shot in several cities.
9. Salman Khan
$ 37 million dollars
Salman Khan started his career relatively late, at the age of 23 he made his debut in the movie “Spouse”. Despite the fact that the film starred world-wide, the picture of the special success of the audience did not receive. The next film was directly opposite the first one, the picture “I fell in love” received the highest awards, it is considered a classic and a masterpiece of Bollywood cinema, and Salman won the nomination for the best male role. Next, there was a series of films that strengthened him to the position of the best Bollywood actor. For his huge contribution to the development and promotion of Indian cinema, he was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Prize. It is curious, especially for girls of fans, that he was never married. Perhaps this is due to Salman’s uneasy character or his illness – neuralgia of the trigeminal nerve, better known as the “suicide disease”, which, he said.
10. Akshay Kumar
$ 35.5 million dollars
While still a disciple of Don Bosco School, Akshay was fond of sports. Later, he became a martial arts teacher in Mumbai. One of his students was engaged in photography and advised Kumar to do a modeling career. Being a model of advertising photo sessions, Akshay left photos for himself and made the first, serious portfolio of them. It served as a pass to the world of cinema. The first film was “The Oath”, 1991. A number of unsuccessful paintings did not stop the ambitious Indian, and already in 2001 he received a prize for the best antagonist role in the film “The Insidious Stranger”. In 2005, for the film “Spices of Love”, he received a prize as the best comedian. In 2017 3 films with Akshay participated: “Jolly LLB 2”, “Naam Shabana” and “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha“. Awarded the highest award in India – Padma Sri. The actor believes that his career is just beginning.
