N6. Julia Roberts – $16 million
The American actress and producer has become a movie star after getting the main character role in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman from 1990. The film grossed $464 million worldwide.
Her films have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.6 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.
In 2013, she appeared in August: Osage County, for which she received her fourth Academy Award nomination.
Roberts was the highest-paid actress in the world throughout the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s.
Her fee for 1990’s Pretty Woman was $300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003).
In 2011, she was named one of the “100 Hottest Women of All-Time” by Men’s Health.
