Top-earning actor
Dwayne Johnson
$270,000,000
Forbes Highest-Paid EntertainersReported
About $321 million in 2025 dollars
Tequila again, this time his own brand Teremana, on top of Jungle Cruise and Red Notice.
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2021
Top-earning actress
Reese Witherspoon
$115,000,000
Forbes Highest-Paid EntertainersReported
About $137 million in 2025 dollars
She sold a stake in her production company Hello Sunshine at a $900 million valuation, plus about $20 million from The Morning Show.
The shows that paid
Box office champions of 2021
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Spider-Man: No Way Home
$1,921 million
- 2
The Battle at Lake Changjin
$910 million
- 3
Hi, Mom
$842 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.