The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2024

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This is what movie stardom looks like in 2025. For the top tier of Hollywood talent, acting in a film has become just one element of a multi-year, multi-platform partnership between a studio and an actor to develop, produce, and most importantly market a project to audiences.

Those who have proven their ability to personally convert fans into customers have become more valuable than ever before. Johnson’s contract for Red One, which included up-front fees for acting and producing—as well as a buyout of back-end participation for both roles—will pay him an estimated $50 million, believed to be the highest fee-plus-buyout total in history for a single movie.

When combined with Johnson’s impressive deal for Moana 2 and his catalog of older titles, he earned an estimated $88 million last year (after paying fees to his agent and lawyer), making him the highest-paid actor of 2024.

Right on his heels is Ryan Reynolds, who, similarly, was the lead producer, co-writer and star of the year’s biggest live-action theatrical hit, Deadpool & Wolverine. He even produced commercials for the movie through his marketing agency, Maximum Effort. Reynolds’ busy year was rewarded with an estimated $85 million (after fees), though in the end 2024 might be remembered for the swarm of lawsuits between his wife, Blake Lively, and It Ends With Us filmmaker Justin Baldoni, which have seen his name littered throughout court documents.

Close behind Johnson and Reynolds, in third place, is another power promoter—Kevin Hart, whose unrivaled volume of self-produced movies, TV shows, podcasts and stand-up comedy continues to reinforce his status as the hardest-working man in show business, and brought in an estimated $81 million.

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10 highest paid actors of 2024

1. Dwayne Johnson — $88M
2. Ryan Reynolds — $85M
3. Kevin Hart — $81M
4. Jerry Seinfeld — $60M
5. Hugh Jackman — $50M
6. Brad Pitt — $32M
7. George Clooney — $31M
8. Nicole Kidman — $31M
9. Adam Sandler — $26M
10. Will Smith — $26M

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