Scarlett Johansson tops Forbes’ 2018 list of top female earner in Hollywood. (Photo: WENN)
From June 2017 to June 2018, Johansson grossed a whopping $40.5 million in pretax earnings. (Photo: WENN)
Her role as Black Widow in” Avengers: Infinity War” was Scarlett’s biggest salary bump. (Photo: WENN)
Angelina Jolie is in a distant second place with $28 million. (Photo: WENN)
Most of Jolie’s earnings this year come from her upfront pay for “Maleficent 2”, se to be released in 2020. (Photo: WENN)
Jennifer Aniston is third, with $19.5 million, though most of her money comes from endorsements and residual income from Friends. (Photo: WENN)
“Mother!” and “Red Sparrow” star Jennifer Lawrence comes in fourth place with $18 million. (Photo: WENN)
Reese Witherspoon rounds up the top 5 with $16.5 million, thanks to her high-profile projects that include “Big Little Lies” and “A Wrinkle In Time.” (Photo: WENN)
Last year’s highest-paid actress Emma Stone, fell out of the top 10. (Photo: WENN)
In 2016 Scarlett Johansson managed to become the highest paid actor among both men and women with $1.2 billion. (Photo: WENN)
Scarlett Johansson recently dropped out of the transgender biopic “Rub and Tug” after public scrutiny. (Photo: WENN)
“I learned a lot from the community since making my first statement about my casting and realize it was insensitive,” she said. (Photo: WENN)
Being a talented Russian spy/assassin definitely pays off the bills.
Scarlet Johansson leads this year’s Forbes’ list of top female earners in Hollywood with $40.5 million in pretax earnings between June 1, 2017 and June 1, 2018, quadrupling her income from the previous year, according to the publication’s calculations.
In that time, Johansson, 33, was a bride-to-be in Rough Night, played a deadly superhero in Avengers: Infinity War—her biggest salary bump—, and voiced a dog in Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs.
Scarlett romp past Angelina Jolie, 43, who is a distant second on the list with $28 million, thanks largely to her upfront pay for Maleficent 2, set to be released in May 29, 2020. Brad Pitt’s other former wife, Jennifer Aniston, 49, is third, with $19.5 million, though most of her money comes from endorsements and residual income from Friends.
This is not Johansson’s first time atop Hollywood’s financial pedestal, having topped her Marvel co-stars Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. in 2016 with $1.2 billion, making her the top paid actor among both men and women.
