Hollywood's biggest paydays weren't just for Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio—some actors landed checks so massive, it's almost criminal. In this countdown, you'll see the usual suspects, but also deals so wild you've probably never heard of them — like an actor who made more than four million dollars for every minute on screen, or Jackie Chan pocketing his own fortune plus all the money from Chinese theaters. And at number one is the single biggest payday in acting history: over $500 million, for just one movie.
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0:20 - Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
1:37 - Tom Hanks – Saving Private Ryan (1998)
2:42 - Jackie Chan – Rush Hour 3 (2007)
3:40 - Leonardo DiCaprio – Inception (2010)
4:47 - Robert Downey Jr. – Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
5:55 - Robert Downey Jr. – Avengers: Endgame (2019)
7:09 - Sandra Bullock – Gravity (2013)
8:33 - Harrison Ford – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
9:47 - Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 3 (2013)
10:47 - Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
11:36 - Will Smith – Men in Black 3 (2012)
12:45 - Tom Cruise – Mission: Impossible (1996)
13:39 - Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump (1994)
14:39 - Jack Nicholson – Batman (1989)
15:47 - Tom Cruise – War of the Worlds (2005)
16:38 - Tom Cruise – Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
17:32 - Bruce Willis – The Sixth Sense (1999)
18:27 - Keanu Reeves – The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions (2003)
19:12 - Sir Alec Guinness – Star Wars (1977)
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