Top-earning actor
Mark Wahlberg
$68,000,000
ForbesReported
About $89.3 million in 2025 dollars
Transformers and Daddy's Home 2, plus his own TV productions.
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Top-earning actress
Emma Stone
$26,000,000
ForbesReported
About $34.1 million in 2025 dollars
La La Land's Oscar year; the top 10 actresses made $172.5 million, the top 10 actors $488.5 million.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2017
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
$1,333 million
- 2
Beauty and the Beast
$1,264 million
- 3
The Fate of the Furious
$1,236 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.