Top-earning actor
Will Ferrell
$40,000,000
ForbesReported
About $65.9 million in 2025 dollars
Elf and Anchorman made him the busiest comedian in Hollywood.
The Back-End Years · 2000s
2005
Top-earning actress
Drew Barrymore
$22,000,000
ForbesReported
About $36.3 million in 2025 dollars
50 First Dates and Fever Pitch, which she also produced.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2005
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
$896 million
- 2
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
$850 million
- 3
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
$745 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.