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The best-paid actors

What the ten best-paid actors in the world were actually paid for a year's work, after their agents were paid and before the taxman was.

1. 1Adam SandlerHis Netflix deal, Happy Gilmore 2 and Jay Kelly · United States$48MEarnings, one year
2. 2Tom CruiseFilms, and the share of the takings he negotiates on them · United States$46MEarnings, one year
3. 3Mark WahlbergThe Family Plan 2 for Apple TV and Play Dirty for Prime Video · United States$44MEarnings, one year
4. 4Scarlett JohanssonChiefly the Jurassic reboot · United States$43MEarnings, one year
5. 5Brad PittChiefly the Apple-backed F1 film · United States$41MEarnings, one year
6. 6Denzel WashingtonFilm work, forty-five years into it · United States$38MEarnings, one year
7. 7Jack BlackFilm work. Tied for seventh · United States$28MEarnings, one year
8. 8Jason MomoaFilm and streaming work. Tied for seventh · United States$28MEarnings, one year
9. 9Daniel CraigStreaming films, a decade after the Bond money stopped · United Kingdom$27MEarnings, one year
10. 10Millie Bobby BrownAt 22, the youngest actor on the list in twenty years · United Kingdom$26MEarnings, one year

These are one year's earnings, not a fortune. Forbes ranked twenty and the top twenty took $590 million between them, a fifth less than the year before.

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