Top-earning actor
Tom Cruise
$75,000,000
ForbesReported
About $105 million in 2025 dollars
Ghost Protocol, the highest-grossing Mission: Impossible yet.
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2012
Top-earning actress
Kristen Stewart
$34,500,000
ForbesReported
About $48.4 million in 2025 dollars
The last two Twilight films, at 22.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2012
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
The Avengers
$1,519 million
- 2
Skyfall
$1,109 million
- 3
The Dark Knight Rises
$1,081 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.