Wednesday, December 21, 2011

MOST RICHEST ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD


#10 - Adam Sandler

Estimated Net Worth: $29.5 million
Adam Sandler is Mr. Funny these days. Known for such hilarious movies as
Adam Sandler is famous for two things; making funny movies and getting paid tons of money to make said movies. Through his acting and producing, Sandler has been able to amass a personal net worth of $300 million. He is one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars which allows him to command $20 million per movie along with very impressive percentages of a films GROSS profits. That’s gross profits not net profits. FYI that is a gross amount of money when you consider some of those films earned over $150 million at the US box office alone. For the movie Anger Management Sandler earned $25 million plus 25% of the gross which was roughly $150 million. That’s an extra $37.5 million in the Sandman’s pocket.


Will Ferrell
#9 - Will Ferrell
Estimated Net Worth: $31 million
Will Ferrell is an American comedian, actor, and writer with an estimated net worth of $80 million dollars. Ferrell is best known for his many comic movies and his years as a sketch comedy artist on Saturday Night Live. Ferrell became interested in acting during his high school year’s, creating comic voices for the school’s daily morning announcements. Ferrell attended the University of Southern California, studying Sports Broadcasting and graduating with a degree in Sports Information. Ferrell joined the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings and developed his improvisation skills.
Ferrell became a featured player at Saturday Night Live in 1995, where his improv skills and impressions over seven years culminated in him being one of the few cast members to be nominated for an Emmy for an SNL performance. Ferrell guest hosted Saturday Night Live on May 14, 2005, and May 16, 2009, reprising a number of his popular SNL roles. Ferrell foray into movies after SNL was highly successful, where he starred in such films as: Old School, A Night at the Roxbury, Drowning Mona, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Superstar, The Ladies Man, Dick, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Zoolander, Anchorman, Elf, Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction, Blades of Glory, and The Other Guys. Ferrell received two Golden Globe nominations for his performances in the movies The Producers, and Stranger than Fiction. Along with his film work, Ferrell has provided voice work for a number of animated television programs and movies.
In April 2007, Ferrell and his comedy partner Adam McKay founded Funny or Die, a streaming video website featuring user generated comedy films which are voted on by website visitors. In January 2009, Ferrell made his Broadway debut with his one-man show featuring his impression of President Bush called You̥re Welcome America РA Final Night with George W. Bush.


 

Nicholas Cage
#8 - Nicolas Cage
Estimated Net Worth:  $38 million 
Nicholas Cage is one of America’s best-known and most successful actors, a man whose net worth of $18 million. He was born on January 7, 1964 in Long Beach, California and was given the name Nicholas Kim Coppola by his parents. He changed his name when he embarked on an acting career because his uncle, famed director Francis Ford Coppola was already using the family surname. After graduating from high school, Cage enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater and, in time, landed his first acting job. It didn’t take too long before he was nominated for – and won – the Best Actor Oscar for his starring role in the filmLeaving Las Vegas. Cage has also been honored with the Toronto Film Critics’ Association Award for Best Actor for his staring role in a more recent film – the 2002 release of Adaptation. While still a young man, Nicholas Cage has already appeared in sixty films. He continues to read scripts that he regularly receives from producers and film studios interested in his services.


Ben Stiller 

#7 - Ben Stiller
Estimated Net Worth: $39.5 million
Ben Stiller (born Benjamin Edward Stiller on November 30, 1965), is an American actor, comedian, writer, film director and producer with an estimated net worth of approximately $120 million. He is the son of two famous acting parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and has often said that he was “born for a career in show business.” Stiller began his career writing “mockumentaries” (spoofs of documentaries). Although still young, his body of work is prolific. To date, he has written, starred in, directed or produced over 50 films. These films have grossed more than $2.1 billion … an average per film of $76 million. There are very few, if any, failures in Stiller’s portfolio. He has won an Emmy for Best Writer for a TV Show, The Ben Stiller Show, several MTV Movie Awards and a Teen Choice Award, as well.


Bruce Willis 

#6 - Bruce Willis
Estimated Net Worth: $41 million
Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and musician with a net worth of $150 million. Born in Germany to a bank teller and an American serviceman, Willis moved to Penns Grove, New Jersey as a child and attended the drama program at Montclair State University until he left to pursue acting in New York City. He has appeared in over sixty films, and although he is best known as an action star, he got his first big break (and several major awards) on the TV comedy Moonlighting, in which he flirted with Cybill Shepherd for five seasons.
Willis’s critical reception has been inconsistent, but he has also delivered several box-office hits: he starred in four Die Hard movies, grossing a total of $1.1 billion worldwide, as well as Armageddon—the highest-grossing film of 1998, at $553 million—and The Sixth Sense. He won two Emmys (for Moonlighting and for a guest-starring role on Friends) and a Golden Globe (for Moonlighting). Willis is also a musician, with three rock albums and favorable reviews to his name. Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987 and had three daughters (Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Belle) before their divorce in 2000; he subsequently married model Emma Heming in 2009.


 

Leonardo Di Caprio
#5 - Leonardo DiCaprio
Estimated Net Worth: $43 million
Actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio was born and raised in Los Angeles and has a net worth estimated at $200 million. After appearing in a smattering of commercials and television roles, including a reoccurring role on the last season of Growing Pains, DiCaprio landed the lead in biopic This Boy’s Life and received much critical praise for his performance. His next role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? earned DiCaprio an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. Dicaprio garnered acclaim for his performances in the intense dramas, Total Eclipse and The Basketball Diaries.
In 1996, DiCaprio starred in the box office hit William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet which grossed $147.5 million worldwide. Following this success came the 1997 film Titanic by James Cameron, a record-breaking, multi-award winning film that secured DiCaprio as a leading man. DiCaprio moved forward with a string of successful movies, including Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me if You Can” (grossed $352 million worldwide), Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” and the award-winning film Revolutionary Road. He has starred in several films by acclaimed director Martin Scorsese: Gangs of New York (grossed $193.7 million worldwide), The Aviator (grossed $211.7 million worldwide), The Departed ($289 million worldwide) and Shutter Island. DiCaprio’s credits as a producer include The Aviator and Orphan. Among DiCaprio’s awards are two Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, one Golden Globe Award and numerous critics’ groups’ awards.


Mike Myers
#4 - Mike Myers
Estimated Net Worth: $55 million 
Canadian-born and bred actor, comedian, writer and producer Mike Myers has a net worth estimated at $175 million. His career began in childhood with a string of commercials, one of which he appeared in with Saturday Night Live alum Gilda Radner. Myers spent time with Second City comedy troupe Toronto and Chicago, appeared on Citytv show City Limits became a founding member of London-based Comedy Store Players and joined comedian Neil Mullarkey on the British children’s program Wide Awake Club. In 1989, Myers joined the cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live and performed legendary characters Linda Richman, Dieter and Wayne Campbell. The latter character landed Myers and fellow SNL cast member Dana Carvey their own movie adaptation, Wayne’s World, which was released in 1992. Wayne’s World was a critical and commercial success, grossing $183 million worldwide. After two more films and another three years on Saturday Night Live, Myers took a temporary hiatus before reemerging with the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, which was followed up by the wildly successful Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (grossed $312 million worldwide) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (grossed $296.6 million worldwide). Myers voices the title lead of the Shrek franchise, with Shrek grossing $484.4 million worldwide, Shrek 2 grossing $919.8 million worldwide (DreamWorks most successful film to date) and Shrek the Third, grossing $798.9 million worldwide. Among his awards are four MTV Movie Awards, an Emmy Award and two Canadian Comedy Awards.


Eddie Murphy
#3 - Eddie Murphy
Estimated Net Worth: $56 million
Eddie Murphy is an American actor, comedian, producer, and director; he is the second-highest grossing actor in film history, and has a net worth of $75 million. Murphy was born and raised in Brooklyn, and began writing stand-up routines, heavily influenced by Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor, while still a teenager. His career began with stand-up comedy, but in 1980, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. He remained there until 1984, eventually became the only cast member ever to also host the show.
In 1982, while still on SNL, he made his big-screen debut in 48 Hrs., which he followed up with Trading Places, two star-making Beverly Hills Cop films, Coming to America, Harlem Nights, and Another 48 Hrs. Murphy’s box-office value dropped in the 1990s, only to be revived with a series of family-friendly movies, notably Mulan, Shrek, and the Nutty Professor movies. In 2006, Murphy was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for his role in Dreamgirls. He has also produced a number of his own films, including Vampire in Brooklyn, Life, and Harlem Nights, which he also directed. Murphy married longtime girlfriend Nicole Mitchell in 1993; the two divorced in 2006.


Jonny Depp
#2 - Johnny Depp
Estimated Net Worth: $72 million
Johnny Depp is an American actor and musician known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters in a wide variety of dramas and fantasy films. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for major roles in recent films. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $2.6 billion at the United States box office and over $6 billion worldwide.

NetWorth: $300 million(2011)


ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $100 MILLION

$40 million: Alice in Wonderland (back-end for starring in Tim Burton film, based on worldwide gross of $1.02 billion)
$35 million: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (up-front money for starring in next installment of Jerry Bruckheimer’s waterlogged but ludicrously profitable franchise)
$20 million: The Tourist (fee for co-starring in one of the year’s bigger flops alongside Angelina Jolie)
$5 million: Older film revenue


 

Will Smith
#1 - Will Smith
Estimated Net Worth: $80 million


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Smith's $20 million-per-role fee is sky-high, but this movie star earns his keep. The futuristic thriller I, Robot and the romantic comedy Hitch each brought in $350 million at the box office, netting their lead actor a healthy portion of the profits on top of his initial paychecks. Audiences love Smith on screens both large and small: DVD sales for the Asimov sci-fi flick padded his wallet, already bulging at the seams.

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