These are the 50 highest-grossing actors of all time
Including some really unexpected box-office gold.
The movie industry has gone crazy, with the top movies easily making more than a billion. But who are the stars that bank the bucks? These are the actors who back the right horses, as sourced from industry fact checkers Box Office Mojo.
Note that it's not adjusted for inflation, it doesn't include movies where the actor is considered to have a cameo role, is based on US box office only, and not every single movie on an actor's roster is necessarily included (ie, if they make no difference to the ranking, they're not included).
For each we've given the number of movies the actor has made and their highest-grossing film. Guess what Tom Cruise's biggest money-making movie in the US is? Nope. Wrong.
50th. Helena Bonham Carter
Total: $2,966.7bn. Number of films: 38
Highest-grossing movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
49th. Natalie Portman
Total: $2,969.2bn. Number of films: 33
Highest-grossing movie: Avengers: Endgame
48th. Simon Pegg
Total:$2,978bn. Number of films: 24
Highest-grossing movie: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
47th. Orlando Bloom
Total: $2,988.4bn. Number of films: 18
Highest-grossing movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
46th. Mark Wahlberg
Total: $3,005.9bn. Number of films: 43
Highest-grossing movie: Transformers 4
45th. Cameron Diaz
Total: $3,031.7bn. Number of films: 34
Highest-grossing movie: Shrek 2
44th. Steve Carrell
Total: $3,054.1bn. Number of films: 32
Highest-grossing movie: Despicable Me
43rd. Elizabeth Banks
Total: $3,060.4bn. Number of films: 40
Highest-grossing movie: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
42nd. Jon Favreau
Total: $3,128.1bn. Number of films: 22
Highest-grossing movie: Avengers: Endgame
41st. Liam Neeson
Total: $3,146.8bn. Number of films: 70
Highest-grossing movie: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
40th. Matt Damon
Total: $3,190.5bn. Number of films: 42
Highest-grossing movie: The Martian
39th. Emma Watson
Total: $3,207.9bn. Number of films: 18
Highest-grossing movie: Beauty and the Beast
38th. Tom Hiddleston
Total: $3,211.9bn. Number of films: 17
Highest-grossing movie: Avengers: Endgame
37th. Robert DeNiro
Total: $3,233.7bn. Number of films: 81
Highest-grossing movie: Meet the Fockers
36th. Robin Williams
Total: $3,279.3bn. Number of films: 50
Highest-grossing movie: Night at the Museum
35th. Stellan Skarsgård
Total: $3,296.3bn. Number of films: 46
Highest-grossing movie: The Avengers
34th. Bruce Willis
Total: $3,335bn. Number of films: 62
Highest-grossing movie: Sixth Sense
33rd. Gwyneth Paltrow
Total: $3,370.9bn. Number of films: 35
Highest-grossing movie: Avengers: Endgame
32nd. Michael Caine
Total: $3,440.1bn. Number of films: 61
Highest-grossing movie: The Dark Knight
31st. Gary Oldman
Total: $3,450.3bn. Number of films: 42
Highest-grossing movie: The Dark Knight
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