Top-earning actor
Will Smith
$60,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $105 million in 2025 dollars
Men in Black II and Bad Boys II.
The Back-End Years · 2000s
2003
Top-earning actress
Jennifer Aniston
$35,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $61.3 million in 2025 dollars
$1 million an episode for the last seasons of Friends, plus Bruce Almighty.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2003
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
$1,119 million
- 2
Finding Nemo
$871 million
- 3
The Matrix Reloaded
$739 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.