Top 10 highest-paid actresses of 2020

As you all know, there's no way the prominent actors will be talked about in the movie industry that a need to talk about the beautiful, attractive but yet professional actresses will not rise. Not talking about them is like doing injustice to the movie industry as a whole as they play a very irrefutable and irresistible part that their role in the movie industry can never be denied. Though it's common and (should I say) natural that the male are commonly topping as far as most proffesion is concerned (talk away from movie industries) but come on, some of these female actors known as actresses have actually made a name for themselves in the movie industry that some actors can only dream of.

How will you ever want to talk about the best actors and actresses in the movie industry and you'll not make mention of the likes of Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Angelina Jolie (my fav!), Sofia Vergara, Scarlet Johanson, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence to mention a few even before mentioning some known actors which the ladies are definitely doing better than in the movie industry. These professional actresses have in one way or the other caught the attention of their fans through their acting and are always rated till date. For example, Angelina Jolie stands to be one of the most rated actresses in the movie industry because of the very unique style of acting and the ability to switch as much as she wants. She's good at romance and she can be a bad ass as well such as the style she displayed in the famous Tomb Raider, talk about Mr and Mrs Smith and co. She's such an actress that always stand to try what most men does in most of her movies and I believe this style has paved way for some other actresses after her.

Another example is Milla Jovovich who's known for her rated and very long role as Alice in the Resident Evil series which has been alive since the year 2002 till the last chapter was released in 2016. The list can go on and on and on to show us that these beauties have more than just their amazing face to offer in the movie industry as their expertise cannot be unnoticed. In fact, they serve as one of the reasons the movie industry is still very interesting. And that explain why some of them are being paid beautifully well than some other actors and will definitely cost you a fortune to invite and get them display their professional acting ability in your movie.

Remember we talked about the top 10 highest paid actors recently, here is to see how their female counterparts are paid as well and we're going to be following the same top 10 tradition in a countdown style. So below we're going to be talking about the Top 10 highest-paid actresses but of the year 2020. Don't be disappointed if your favorite actress didn't make the list or is not in the position you expected them to be. Things change every year and they might be where you expect them to be in the following year. So let's begin the countdown!

10) VIOLA DAVIS - $15.5 million

Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer. Having won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award (Primetime), and two Tony Awards, she is the first African-American actress to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. In 2020, The New York Times ranked Davis ninth on its list of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century".

Davis makes the list for the first time thanks to seven-figure checks from her roles as Annalise Keating on How to Get Away with Murder and Ma Rainey in Netflix’s film adaption of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

9) ELISABETH MOSS - $16 million

Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor and producer. She has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Her extensive television work led Vulture to name her the "Queen of Peak TV. Moss began acting in the early 1990s and first gained recognition for playing Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, in the NBC political drama series The West Wing (1999–2006). Wider recognition came for playing Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for portraying Detective Robin Griffin in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake (2013), and she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series for producing and starring as June Osborne in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present).

Hulu paid her $1 million per episode to star in the dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale. She shared in the profits of Invisible Man, a surprise hit that cost just $7 million and grossed $134.3 million.

8) ELLEN POMPEO - $19 million

Ellen Kathleen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is an American actress and producer. One of the world's highest paid actors since 2017, she has made multiple appearances on the Forbes’ year-end lists. Pompeo is also the recipient of such accolades as a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Special Achievement in Entertaining by the National Italian American Foundation, and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.

After a contract renegotiation in 2017, Pompeo is earning about $550,000 per episode for her starring role on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. She reportedly adds about $6 million a year from her share of syndication profits.

7) NICOLE KIDMAN - $22 million

Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian-American actress, singer, and producer. She has received an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. She was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2006, 2018 and 2019. Time magazine twice named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2004 and 2018. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her fifth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Kidman will join Streep in Ryan Murphy’s The Prom on Netflix, which will pay her an eight-figure upfront salary. She will earn about $1 million per episode for her upcoming miniseries on HBO, The Undoing.

6) EMILY BLUNT - $22.5 million

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Educated at Hurtwood House in Dorking, Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family. She went on to appear in the television film Boudica (2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII (2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love (2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

The first A Quiet Place grossed $341 million on a $17 million budget, and Blunt negotiated an eight-figure upfront salary on the sequel, due out next year. Her role in Jungle Cruise will earn her a check in the high seven figures.

5) MERYL STREEP - $24 million

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the "best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accents. She has received a number of accolades, including being nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, of which she has won three, and receiving a record 33 Golden Globe nominations, winning nine.

The screen legend joined director Steven Soderbergh for the comedy Let Them All Talk, which was sold to HBO Max for $33 million. Streep’s cut of the action: at least $5 million. The rest came from The Prom and last year’s Little Women.

4) MELISSA McCARTHY - $25 million

Melissa Ann McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and fashion designer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. McCarthy was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016, and she has been featured multiple times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #22 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.

The comedic actress stars in two streaming films directed by husband Ben Falcone—one on HBO Max and one on Netflix—and hosts NBC’s Little Big Shots. Next year: her role as Ursula in the live-action version of The Little Mermaid.

3) GAL GADOT - $31.5 million

Gal Gadot (born 30 April 1985) is an Israeli actress, producer, and model. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a fitness/combat readiness instructor, after which she began studying law and international relations at IDC Herzliya college while building her modelling and acting careers. Gadot's first international film role came as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious (2009), a role she reprised in subsequent installments of the film franchise. She went on to gain worldwide recognition for portraying Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), followed by the solo film Wonder Woman and the ensemble Justice League (both 2017). In 2018, Time magazine named Gadot one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses.

With Wonder Woman 1984 on ice, Gadot turned to Netflix, collecting $20 million for her role in Red Notice. It’s a steep price, insiders say, but a tiny part of the streamer’s $17 billion content budget.

2) ANGELINA JOLIE - $35.5 million

Angelina Jolie (formerly Jolie Pitt, born June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), and her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted. Her starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading Hollywood actress.

One of the few actresses on the list to pocket nearly all of her money from traditional films, Jolie’s biggest paycheck comes from her starring role in The Eternals, the upcoming Marvel movie that has a $200 million budget.

1) SOFIA VERGARA - $43 million

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara (born July 10, 1972) is a Colombian-American actress, television producer, comedian, presenter and model. She has been the highest paid actress in American television for 7 consecutive years, from 2013-2019. Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). She subsequently appeared in Four Brothers (2005) and the comedies Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. In 2009, she began playing Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC comedy series Modern Family, for which she was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Vergara concluded her run on ABC’s Modern Family and began her tenure as a judge on America’s Got Talent. She pads those earnings with endorsement and licensing deals, including a line of jeans at Walmart and furniture at Rooms To Go.

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