Surpassing a series of expensive stars: Tom Cruise, Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston… Adam Sandler becomes the highest-paid actor to date!
On March 26 (local time), Forbes magazine just announced the list of highest-paid actors at the present time. The 10 highest-paid stars earned a total of 549 million USD, in which the number of male actors was overwhelming (8/10).
Adam Sandler surprised everyone when he surpassed a series of famous Hollywood names to take the top spot with 73 million USD in his pocket last year. The 57-year-old star earned this “huge” salary mainly thanks to a lucrative contract with the “giant” Netflix.
Adam Sandler becoming the highest-paid actor in 2025 surprised many people, especially when the actor surpassed a series of famous names in Hollywood: Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie… On X, many viewers were surprised by this ranking. Someone even expressed: “The fact that Adam Sandler earns more money than Tom Cruise leaves me speechless”.
The next name on the list of actors who earned the most money in the past year is Margot Robbie. Forbes estimates that the star born in 1990 earned 59 million USD in 2023. This amount of money is mainly thanks to her participation in producing and starring in the blockbuster Barbie (earning more than 1.4 billion USD) as well as appearing in Asteroid City and being one of the producers of the Saltburn project.
Tom Cruise ranked third in the list just announced by Forbes. Hollywood’s top action star earned $45 million last year thanks to starring in the blockbuster Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One as well as streaming revenue for Top Gun: Maverick.
Fourth place belongs to Ryan Gosling (left) and Matt Damon (right) with each star earning $43 million. In 2023, Gosling made a fortune playing the Ken doll in the global blockbuster Barbie.
Jennifer Aniston follows the two colleagues above with $42 million earned last year. The 55-year-old star has a dream income mainly thanks to starring alongside Adam Sandler in Murder Mystery 2 and continuing to lead the new season of the hit series The Morning Show while still receiving profits from Friends.
Seventh place on this list is the presence of two stars Leonardo DiCaprio (left) and Jason Statham (right) with an income of $41 million each. Last year, Hollywood’s most glamorous actor earned a fortune mainly from starring in the film Killers of the Flower Moon by famous director Martin Scorsese.