Top-earning actor
Bruce Willis
$70,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $131 million in 2025 dollars
Mostly back-end: he took a share of The Sixth Sense that paid about $100 million.
The Back-End Years · 2000s
2000
Top-earning actress
Julia Roberts
$18,900,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $35.3 million in 2025 dollars
Erin Brockovich made her the first actress paid $20 million for a film.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2000
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Mission: Impossible II
$546 million
- 2
Gladiator
$466 million
- 3
Cast Away
$430 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.