Top-earning actor
Tom Cruise
$41,000,000
Forbes, $82M over 1996–97 (half shown)Reported
About $82.2 million in 2025 dollars
He produced Mission: Impossible and took a share of the gross that paid about $70 million.
The $20 Million Club · 1990s
1997
Top-earning actress
Roseanne Barr
$27,500,000
Forbes, $55M over 1996–97 (half shown)Reported
About $55.2 million in 2025 dollars
The final season of Roseanne.
The show that paid
Box office champions of 1997
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Titanic
$1,843 million
- 2
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
$619 million
- 3
Men in Black
$589 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.