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Angelina Jolie + Jennifer Aniston = Top-Earning Actresses

Angelina Jolie + Jennifer Aniston = Top-Earning Actresses

Angelina Jolie’s cinematic butt kicking made her the highest-paid actress on Forbes annual Celebrity 100 list. Coming in second behind Angie is Jennifer Aniston, continuing the never-ending tabloid battle between the two actresses. Check out the Top 15 below!

1 - Angelina Jolie, $27 million
2 - Jennifer Aniston, $25 million
3 - Meryl Streep, $24 million
4 - Sarah Jessica Parker, $23 million
5 - Cameron Diaz, $20 million
6 - Sandra Bullock, $15 million
6 - Reese Witherspoon, $15 million
8 - Nicole Kidman, $12 million
8 - Drew Barrymore, $12 million
10 - Renee Zellweger, $10 million
11 - Cate Blanchett, $8 million
12 - Anne Hathaway, $7 million
12 - Halle Berry, $7 million
14 - Scarlett Johansson, $5.5 million
15 - Kate Winslet, $2 million

FYI: The top 10 actors earned $393 million, compared with $183 million for the top 10 actresses.

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@gobruno!: according to Forbes brad pitt only made 1 million more than Angelina.

I’ve come to check if there’s any news about the Jolie-Pitts and I find this silly picture. I don’t like it at all. There’s something wrong with it. Isn’t Angie taller than x or whatever her name is today? LOL

Not impressed by JA @ 07/02/2009 at 2:27 am

marisa @ 07/02/2009 at 12:24 am i have one thing to say and one thing only: angelina should NOT be at the top of that list. Why should she get more pay then actresses that are light years better than her?
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No idiot ! It’s because she is BANKABLE ! You know what that means ? Here is a course of economy and stock exchange earnings for you.
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You can be as as talented as you wish, schools have talented unknown actors more talented than most famous actors are, Still they won’t be paid millions for a movie until they demonstrate their bankability. it’s the ability of draging money on your sole name that makes you bankable, hence a financially stable valuable force.

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Your share value fluctuate around that ability in the movie financial market. Why should Kate Winslet be offered 20 millions + backhands per movie when those movies don’t even generate that amount of money as net value and after all costs paid eventhough she is oftenly the main character ?
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Her actor/art value is very high, her financial one is very low and since it’s about who GENERATE MORE MONEY, it’s totally deserved that she is low ranked. She doesn’t bring the money in the house.
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On the other hand Jolie has an actor value and a financial one in par. This because she is versatile and able to bring the art and the cash in the movies she is making on her sole name. That’s why a movie like Changeling with such a theme has made wordly 2 or 3 times more money than Kate’s same type of movies because Jolie’s name guarantee most of the time maximum financial return in each movie she is making comparing to the same movies done by other actresses.
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The more high your return on interest is on movies you made comparing to movies of the same genre, the more you will be paid the deservdly part of the cash you have been able to bring in on your sole presence.
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And Hollywood is business. They have tools to measure your influence on movie sales, how you pull the cash flow. They know better why they pay such actress X money while another one Y money.

groundcontrol @ 07/02/2009 at 2:28 am

This is a very deceptive list.
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While it is still at best just a guess by Forbes [ they really have NO idea what these actresses have in their contracts ], they could keep it properly comparative among actresses which thye have not done.
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Case in point ALL the 6 Friends co-stars received the same residuals for a term of 5 years. This is the 5th and final year. The amount was $16.1 million per year for each of the 6. Starting in 2010 there will be no more money from Friends for any of them. So Forbes really needs to deduct $16.1 million from Aniston’s total which puts her at $8.9 million for 3 movies. Or they should have Courtney Cox and Lisa Kudrow on that list as will.
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Perhaps Forbes should include the other income the rest of the actresses make as well. Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett do commercials. As do a few others. Angelina and Meryl received back end deals (that is, gross points from the profits) from some of their movies. So all these other extras should be added by Forbes if they insist on showing TV money and for that matter TV money from OLD work which is no indication of one’s worth in today’s market.
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My estimate is that Aniston is pulling in an average of $3 million per picture. That woud place her about 10th place. I am sure there are other actresses who make at least $3 million a picture and are not on that list. Are there any TV actresses making big money today? Glenn Close? Jennifer Love Hewitt? Tina Fey?

Manny is lucky to pull in 3-5mil for her ****-fest rom-coms considering she is 40+.

Funny how the most talented ones are the ones making less money — Kate Blanchet and Kate Winslet. I am glad at least Meryl Streep is among the top three. Well deserved.

deraj tsuj @ 07/02/2009 at 2:53 am

White Power !!! :)

Jenhag is #2 on this list due to $16 million from Friends rerun. But Jenhag is only #55 most bankable while Angie is #2 most bankable.

seriously @ 07/02/2009 at 3:07 am

That is not Aniston. It’s a man!!!

Man is soo overated, untalented stingy bimbo.
Abhor her.Rachel, Racheal, Racheal.
she is only on weeklies because she rides on the coat tails of her ex of 5 yrs & his stunnig, good hearted, evemtremly talented actress.
Man, is a looser w/a good PR guy.

chloe moely @ 07/02/2009 at 3:16 am

JA makes her $ from constant playing ofFriends. Not fair.
JA is a TV actrss & Angie is Brando status,

Forbes doesn’t even have brad this high on the top earning actor list. harrison ford made 65 million to pitt’s 28

Forbes has Angelina topping all of their list from Hollywood’s Most Bankable Actresses to Hollywood’s most powerful. she’s also number two (tied with Pitt) for all around(actors and actresses) most bankable star.

Jennifer Aniston =
Lying, conniving, exploitative, manipulative, empty, despicable, shallow, self absorbed, devious, two faced, power hungry, and egomaniac, who did nothing but used and abuse BP, and anyone else to achieve the ultimate popularity and Power!!!
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Angelina Jolie =
The perfect female fantasy, she is the modern day female hero, fierce, unbelievable independent, the most admired, humanitarian, royalty, generous, kind, perfect partner to BP, she’ s got the HOTTEST guy in the UNIVERSE.. AJ is the multi millions dollars business, people need to keep their job, they have to always keep this this Link to JA… perfect storm to all the delusionals…
AJ

Why is Maniston even on the list? It is a insult to real talents like Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet.

Why the hell did Forbes count money Aniston made from Friends? She only made $9 million from movies. She should be below #10.

@nina:

Telling me nina. I totally agree. Jennnifer Aniston should not even be on the top ten list. It’s ridiculous. I live in europe and I never see her movies. What movies are they talking about. “Dismanagement”???

All the Angie news lately and we get this forbes rubbish.

Angie visited with American service men the other day. The only reason why we found out about the visit is because the USO put pics up

Credit PW
Here’s a link with pics http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=126420&id=114472498355

And how much HUVANE pay you Jarred????
after all the support from all the J-P’s fans all this years..
Thank God the TRUTH speak louder than any words /PR and any BUL*sh*t picture!!!!!!

I love that pic. Mind you I despise Angie, but that pic is lovely! Well put, Jared. ;) I love that Jen is not the dark side. LOL

Remind me again how many oscars nominations No. 2 has had in her life?

american's sweetheart @ 07/02/2009 at 4:06 am

hey angelunatics, dont be so ignorant. ms voight got the 27mill INCLUDING the money she got from people mag for whoring out the twins pic. means she should be at the bottom of the list. As for friends re-run, whats wrong with it? Jen worked hard for it and now all she has to do is just sits ah home making money (brad’s words). It’s a honest job. Instead of pimping out newborns and had their pics taken by some strangers when they couldn’t even open their eyes yet.

american's sweetheart @ 07/02/2009 at 4:16 am

May I add - also as fox’s age, ms voight was famous as heroin user, horse-bestiality, incestuous, hired a hitman to kill her, had sex with everything that breathed, etc etc….

Funny picture for sure, but quite inaccurate, how someone as tall as 5′8” like Angie could be smaller than Jennifer Aniston who is barely 5′4”???
Good for Angie, but I think unlike ChinCHin she is not really a money driven actress.

groundcontrol @ 07/02/2009 at 4:19 am

american’s sweetheart @ 07/02/2009 at 4:06 am hey angelunatics, dont be so ignorant. ms voight got the 27mill INCLUDING the money she got from people mag for whoring out the twins pic. means she should be at the bottom of the list. As for friends re-run, whats wrong with it? Jen worked hard for it and now all she has to do is just sits ah home making money (brad’s words). It’s a honest job. Instead of pimping out newborns and had their pics taken by some strangers when they couldn’t even open their eyes yet.

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Is that more of the garbage they told you at FF? Of course they are wrong as usual. None of the money includes anything other than their salaries. Are you really this stupid? Wait, you’re from FF. Of course you are this stupid.
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Angelina’s money is her $20 million upfront fee for Salt and her gross points from the lovely Box Office that Wanted earned. It might even be more than that because Forbes is just guessing.
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Gross points - you know that lovely share of the profits that Jennifer Aniston will NEVER see in one of her contracts.
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Did they tell you that Aniston’s sum includes $16.1 million for her decades old work on Friends? Money the likes of which she will never see again. Sorry but Aniston isn’t making more than about $3 - 4 million a picture. That’s why she’s churning out one piece of garbage after another. That and she has nothing else to do with her life.
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Now scurry back to FF and discuss the imaginary PLAN that the wannabe insider has you all duped into believing is in the works. ROTFLMAO. You poor dears. Such foolishness. Such delusions.

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