Top-earning actor
Leonardo DiCaprio
$77,000,000
ForbesReported
About $110 million in 2025 dollars
Inception and Shutter Island, both with back-end deals.
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2011
Top-earning actress
Angelina Jolie
$30,000,000
ForbesReported
About $42.9 million in 2025 dollars
Tied with Sarah Jessica Parker.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2011
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
$1,342 million
- 2
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
$1,124 million
- 3
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
$1,046 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.