The Highest-Paid Actresses 2019: Scarlett Johansson Leads With $56 Million

Black Widow’s most lucrative superpower? Her negotiating skills. For the second year in a row, Scarlett Johansson tops Forbes’ list of the highest-paid actresses, earning $56 million.

That includes a lot of Marvel money, like an eight-figure check for her upcoming Black Widow film and an impressive back-end payment of about $35 million for the $2.8 billion-grossing Avengers: Endgame.

Johansson is joined on the list by newcomers Elisabeth Moss and Margot Robbie, as well as returnees like Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon. Together, the world’s ten highest-paid actresses tallied a combined $314.6 million between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019, before fees and taxes. That’s 69% more than last year’s cumulative total, but still far less than the top ten actors’ $588.3 million.

Stay tuned for more next week on how these actresses managed to increase their earnings by taking Hollywood into their own hands.

The full list is below. Earnings estimates are based on data from Nielsen, ComScore, Box Office Mojo and IMDB, as well as interviews with industry insiders. All figures are pretax; fees for agents, managers and lawyers (generally 10%, 15% and 5%, respectively) are not deducted.

The World’s Highest-Paid Actresses Of 2019

10. Ellen Pompeo
Earnings: $22 million

9. Charlize Theron
Earnings: $23 million

8. Margot Robbie
Earnings: $23.5 million

7. Elisabeth Moss
Earnings: $24 million

6. Kaley Cuoco
Earnings: $25 million

5. Jennifer Aniston
Earnings: $28 million

4. Nicole Kidman
Earnings: $34 million

3. Reese Witherspoon
Earnings: $35 million

2. Sofia Vergara
Earnings: $44.1 million

1. Scarlett Johansson
Earnings: $56 million

(Forbes)