Top-earning actor
Dwayne Johnson
$64,500,000
ForbesReported
About $86.5 million in 2025 dollars
From wrestler to the world's best-paid actor: San Andreas, Central Intelligence and HBO's Ballers.
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2016
Top-earning actress
Jennifer Lawrence
$46,000,000
ForbesReported
About $61.7 million in 2025 dollars
Including $20 million up front for Passengers.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2016
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Captain America: Civil War
$1,153 million
- 2
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
$1,056 million
- 3
Finding Dory
$1,029 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.