Top 10 highest paid actors in the world 2025
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Ernest SundayFreelance football and education writer
The giant streaming network Netflix has heaped some actor's earnings. These top 10 highest-paid actors had once collected a combined $545.5 million, paid by Netflix. The streaming giant, in fact, had once paid $140.5 million worth of checks to six of these top ten.
Dwayne Johnson tops the list of highest-paid actors for the second year in a row with $87.5 million, collected $23.5 million for his role as an art-thief-chasing Interpol agent in Netflix original film Red Notice.
Also, Netflix had once paid out $85 million to Ryan Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck and Vin Diesel, all among the top ten highest-paid actors in the world.
These are the top 10 highest-Paid Actors in the world in 2025:
1. Dwayne Johnson - Earnings - $87.5 million
Johnson, who is an American-Canadian actor and also a producer, has topped the list of the highest paid actors in the world with a huge amount of money due to his good role in his films.
Jonhson is popularly known as The Rock due to his wrestling career, which he has retired from.
This is the second time Dwayne Johnson is topping the list of highest-paid actors after receiving a huge amount of money from Netflix.
Dwayne Johnson made over $50 million as upfront payment and 8% profit participation from the movie "Red One'.
The movie’s estimated box office profit was around $600 million and Dwayne Johnson pocketed approximately $48 million from the movie's box office profit just for these movie.
The former wrestler has shown many talents in acting at different stages, taking up different roles in acting.
2. Ryan Reynolds - Earnings - $71.5 million
Ryan Reynolds follows Dwayne Johnson as the second-highest paid actor in the top ten highest-paid actors in the world in 2025.
Ryan Reynolds is a Canadian-American actor and a movie producer that started his acting career in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside.
The famous actor got the biggest success in his career with the superhero films Deadpool in 2016 and Deadpool 2 in 2018, in which he played the major role.
The role he played in the movie earned him nominations at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.
Ryan Reynolds made his highest-earning worth over $20 million in the movies Six Underground and Red Notice.
Additionally, Ryan got an upfront fee of $52 million for featuring in “Deadpool & Wolverine’ with a profit participation of 6%. The movie made a profit of about $500 million in box office earning him additional $30 million.
These earnings have helped him earn a spot in the top ten highest-paid actors in the world.
3. Mark Wahlberg - Earnings - $58 million
Famous actor Mark Wahlberg is the 3rd highest paid actor in the list of top highest-paid actors in the world.
Mark Wahlberg is an American actor and a film producer who started his early career as a rapper with the stage name Marky Mark and released the album "Music for the People and You Gotta Believe".
Mark Wahlberg has been nominated in many awards over the years, including Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama. The GoldenGlobe Award for Best Actor for the biographical sports drama The Fighter.
Mark Wahlberg was once the highest-paid actor in 2017. Wahlberg's action-comedy Spenser Confidential was Netflix’s third-most-watched original film after it debuted, the movie has earned him lots of money to become the 3rd highest-paid actor in the world.
Mark made lot of money from the movie "Instant Family". He was paid an upfront fee of $10 million with a participation profit of 5% adding to his earnings.
4. Ben Affleck - Earning - $55 million
Ben Affleck, an American actor, producer, and film director, is the fourth highest paid actor among the top ten highest-paid actors in the world.
The prolific movie star started his career as a child when he was featured in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi.
Ben Affleck gained notable recognition when he won both Academy Award and three GoldenGlobe Awards with his childhood friend Matt Damon for Best Original Screenplay for writing and acting in Good Will Hunting.
In 2004 Affleck took a break in his career and stopped acting for a while. After a brief break, he returned to acting and gained more popularity in The Way Back and Netflix’s The Last Thing He Wanted.
Ben Affleck made approximately $15 million upfront fee and a participation profit of about 10% for the movie Paycheck.
Paycheck had about $52 million box office gross adding to Ben Affleck wealth and earnings ranking him #4 on our list of top 10 highest paid actors in 2025.
5. Vin Diesel - Earnings - $54 million
Famous action movie actor Vin Diesel is the fifth highest paid actor in the list of top highest-paid actors in the world.
Mark Sinclair, who is popularly known with the stage name Vin Diesel is a popular American actor and film producer. He is the CEO of Sinclair Industries inc.
Van Diesel began his career in 1990 but did not gain early public notice as he struggled to gain important roles in movies until he wrote and starred in the movie Multi-Facial.
Van Diesel's most popular movies that helped him earn big money to be among the highest-paid actors in the world are Fast & Furious, XXX Return of Xander Cage, and The Chronicles of Riddick.
The F9 star missed out on the chance to collect a massive back-end payday after the film’s release was pushed.
Van Diesel kept the franchise embers burning by acting as producer on the animated Netflix series Fast & Furious Spy Racers.
Vin Diesel also featured in the movie Furious 7 with his base fee approximately $15 million and participation profit approximately 5%.
The movie's box office gross was about $1.5 billion earning Vin Diesel a huge amount from the movie.
6. Akshay Kumar - Earnings - $48.5 million
Professional actor Akshay Kumar is the sixth highest paid actor among the top ten highest-paid actors in the world in 2025.
Akshay Kumar is an India-born adopted Canadian actor, producer and television personality that works in Bollywood, a movie industry in Mumbai, India.
He is the only Bollywood star on the list of top highest-paid actors in the world in 2025. Though most of his money comes from endorsement deals, he is a very talented actor loved by his fans.
Kumar has appeared in more than 100 different movies and played a leading role in many of them, including Ajnabee, Khiladi, Garam Masala, etc.
Kumar has also won many awards, including National Film Award for Best Actor and two Filmfare Awards from 13 nominations. The Indian Government also awarded him the Padma Shri.
Kumar is the first Bollywood actor whose movie Domestic Net Lifetime Collections in 2013 crossed a sale of $280 million and $420 million in 2016.
Kumar featured in the movie Sooryavanshi. He was paid an upfront fee of ₹35–40 crore which is about $5–6 million USD.
He also got a participation profit estimated to be about 10% from the movie's ₹350 crore (roughly $50 million) box office gross.
7. Lin Manuel Miranda - Earnings - $45.5 million
Lin Manuel Miranda is the 7th highest-paid actor in the list of top highest-paid actors in the world in 2025.
Miranda is an American composer, actor, film producer and singer. He has created many songs and movies, including Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton.
Miranda has won several awards, including three Tonys Awards, three Grammys Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Honor.
Disney, an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment mix acquired worldwide movie rights to the original Broadway production of Hamilton for $75 million, putting Miranda on the list of top highest-paid actors in 2025..
Lin‑Manuel Miranda also made a lot of money from the movie In the Heights. Lin‑Manuel Miranda was paid an upfront fee of about $20 million and a participation profit of about 10% from the movie's box office gross of $48 million.
All these has added to his massive earnings ranking him #7 on the list of top 10 highest paid actors in 2025.
8. Will Smith - Earnings - $44.5 million
Famously known Willard Carroll Smith Jr is the 8th highest paid actor in the list of top highest-paid actors in the world in 2025.
Willard Carroll Smith Jr, popularly known by his stage name Will Smith is an American actor, producer and rapper.
Will Smith has been nominated in many awards including the Golden Globe Awards five times and Academy Awards two times and has won four Grammy Awards.
It is no surprise to many people that Will made the world's top highest-paid actors list.
In terms of movie roles, the all-round-actor is one of the most talented Hollywood stars and has once been called the most powerful actor in Hollywood by Newsweek.
Will Smith got his popularity in the movie industry when he starred in the NBC television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Will Smith also featured in the movie Bad Boys for Life charging about $20 million upfront with a 10% participation profit.
The movie which garnered up to $426 million box office gross has contributed immensely to Will Smith's massive earnings.
9. Adam Sandler - Earnings - $41 million
Adam Sandler is an American actor, comedian, and film producer currently under a Netflix contract. He is the 9th highest-paid actor among the top ten highest-paid actors in the world in 2025.
The comedian has found his home at Netflix. He signed a deal to create four movies for the platform after his film Murder Mystery became one of the streamer’s most-popular films of all time.
The former Saturday Night Live funny actor was peaked in 1998 when he sold $240 million worth of tickets at the domestic box office.
Since then, he started trending. In 2019 Sandler’s movie Uncut Gems was a hit, even though the film received critical acclaim, especially for Sandler's performance, which several critics described as the best of his career; it made $51 million; Sandler earned just about $5 million.
Sandler received $31 million from Netflix, just 75% of his contract with the industry, for the $250 million deal he signed in 2014.
Additionally, Sandler made over $40 million and a participation profit of 15% from the movie Hubie Halloween, adding to his earnings.
10. Jakie Chan - Earnings - $40 million
Popular Chinese movie martial art actor Jakie Chan is the 10th highest paid actor in the list of top highest-paid actors in the world in 2025.
Chan Kong-sang, popularly known as Jakie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor and film producer. He is known for his comic role in action movies and has appeared in over 100 films.
Jakie Chan made approximately $10 million from the movie Rush Hour. He was also paid a participation profit of 10% from the movie's box office gross of $156 million.
Jakie Chan is also known for his comedy pattern of acting in martial art movies and hiss kind heart.
Jakie Chan has once been rated one of Forbes magazine's top ten most charitable celebrities. He was ranked Forbes number two highest-paid actor in the world in 2015.