Top 10 Richest Actors In The World
Who are the richest actors in the world? This is the very popular question that many people always ask. With the passage of time money has become integral part of every successful personalities. It is not only to earn sufficient money but also to get millions of dollars along with the fame. This is what celebrity makes possible themselves whether it’s Hollywood or Bollywood too much busy in more and more each passing day. To answer this popular question, we have listed one and only for YOU.
10Jackie Chan - $350M
Chan Kong-sang,(born 7 April 1954), known professionally as
Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer,
stuntman, and singer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting
style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, which he
typically performs himself. Chan has been training in Kung fu and Wing Chun. He
has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in over 150 films.
Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a cultural icon, Chan has been referenced in
various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. An operatically trained vocalist,
Chan is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums
and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred. He is
also a notable philanthropist. In 2015, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth
to be $350 million.
9Tom Hanks - $350M
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and a filmmaker.His films have grossed more than $4.3 billion at United States and Canadian box offices and more than $8.5 billion worldwide, making him the 4th highest-grossing actor in North America.
8Sylvester Stallone - $400M
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an
American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is well known for his
Hollywood action roles, particularly boxer Rocky Balboa, the title character of
the Rocky series' seven films from 1976 to 2015; soldier John Rambo from the
four Rambo films, which ran from 1982 to 2008; and Barney Ross in the three The
Expendables films from 2010 to 2014. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films
in all three franchises, and directed many of the films.
Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film
Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum.
7Jack Nicholson - $400M
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937)
is an American actor and filmmaker, having performed for nearly 60 years. He is
known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including
satirical comedy, romance and dark portrayals of excitable and psychopathic
characters. In many of his films, he has played the "eternal outsider, the
sardonic drifter", and someone who rebels against the social structure.
Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most
nominated male actor in the Academy's history.
6Johnny Depp – $400M
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (born June 9,
1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe
Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. He rose to prominence on
the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol.
Depp has taken on challenging and
"larger-than-life" roles, starting with a supporting role in Oliver
Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon in 1986, then playing the title character in
the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990). He later found box office
success in the fantasy adventure film Sleepy Hollow (1999), the fantasy
swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
and its sequels, the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(2005), the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010) and voicing the title
character in the animated action comedy western Rango (2011). He has
collaborated on eight films with director and friend Tim Burton.
5Mel Gibson - $425M
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956) is an
Australian-American actor and filmmaker (screenwriter, producer, and director).
Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney,
Australia, when he was 12 years old.
Gibson is most well known as an action hero, for
roles such as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon buddy cop film series, and Max
Rockatansky in the first three films in the Mad Max post-apocalyptic action
series
4Amitabh Bachchan - $425M
Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan (born 11 October 1942) is an
Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies
like Zanjeer and Deewar, and was dubbed India's first "angry young
man" for his on-screen roles in Bollywood. Referred to as the
"Shahenshah of Bollywood", "Star of the Millennium" or
"Big B", he has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career
spanning more than four decades. Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the
greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. So total
was his dominance of the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French
director François Truffaut called him a "one-man industry. Bachchan has
won numerous accolades in his career, including four National Film Awards as
Best Actor and many awards at international film festivals and award
ceremonies.
The Government of India honored him with the Padma Shri in
1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015 for his
contributions to the arts. The Government of France honored him with its
highest civilian honor, Knight of the Legion of Honor, in 2007 for his
exceptional career in the world of cinema and beyond.
3Tom Cruise - $480M
Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker. Cruise has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. He started his career at age 19 in the 1981 film Endless Love. After portraying supporting roles in Taps (1981) and The Outsiders (1983), his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, released in August 1983. Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun (1986). One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, Cruise starred in several more successful films in the 1980s, including the dramas The Color of Money (1986), Cocktail (1988), Rain Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).with the net worth of $480M, he deserves 3rd place in this list.
2Shahrukh Khan – $600M
Shah Rukh Khan (born Shahrukh Khan, 2 November 1965), also known as SRK, is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood", "King of Bollywood" or "King Khan", he has appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Film fare Awards. Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income, he has been described as one of the most successful film stars in the world. With the net worth of $600M, he deserves 2nd place in this list.
1Merv Griffin – $1B
Merv Griffin was born on 6th July 1925 in San Mateo, California, USA. He played a different roles in his lifetime like Singer, Band leader, TV Host, Movie actor and Business magnet. Griffin was best known for creating the two most popular game shows in television syndication history, Wheel of Fortune (1983) and Jeopardy! (1984) that are watched by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. He was acted in “The Boy from Oklahomaâ€,†This Is Love†and many more movies. At the age of 82 he died on August 12, 2007 due to prostate cancer. With his net worth of $1B, he deserves the title richest actor in the world.
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