Top-earning actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
$37,000,000
Forbes, $74M over 1995–96 (half shown)Reported
About $75.9 million in 2025 dollars
True Lies, Eraser and Jingle All the Way.
The $20 Million Club · 1990s
1996
Top-earning actress
Roseanne Barr
$20,000,000
Forbes, $40M over 1995–96 (half shown)Reported
About $41.1 million in 2025 dollars
Television again: her sitcom's ninth season.
The show that paid
Box office champions of 1996
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Independence Day
$817 million
- 2
Twister
$499 million
- 3
Mission: Impossible
$458 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.