Angelina Jolie & Jennifer Aniston – Top Earning Actresses

Paul @ Gone Hollywood | Thursday, July 2, 2009

It’s that time of again, when we all (or most of us) read articles like this and then think of our bank accounts and cry ourselves to sleep, because Forbes have just released Hollywood’s Top-Earning Actresses.

Brad Pitt must do something good to women because Angelina Jolie tops the list while his ex wife Jennifer Aniston is right behind her.

Most of Angelina’s money came from the $341 million that her movie Wanted made, plus she got a chunk of money from her next movie, Salt.

As for Jennifer’s money, her film Marley & Me made abotu $244 million, she gets money from being the spokesperson for SmartWater, she got money for her next film The Baster and of course she still rakes in cash from Friends residuals.

The top 15 list looks like this:
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

According to Forbes, The Top 10 women earned a combined $183 million compared to $393 million for the Top 10 men. And they said sexism was dead?