Top-earning actor
Tyler Perry
$175,000,000
Forbes Highest-Paid EntertainersReported
About $193 million in 2025 dollars
He owns his studio in Atlanta and everything he makes there, from Madea to the TV series Sistas.
The Streaming Money · 2020s
2022
Top-earning actress
Margot Robbie
≈ $12,500,000
Fee for BarbieEstimate
About $13.8 million in 2025 dollars
No actress made Forbes' top 10. On Variety's salary report the first woman was Robbie, 18th overall, with $12.5 million for Barbie.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2022
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Avatar: The Way of Water
$2,320 million
- 2
Top Gun: Maverick
$1,496 million
- 3
Jurassic World Dominion
$1,002 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.