Who is 2018’s World’s Highest Paid Actress?

 The Black Widow is reigning this year.

Hollywood actresses lifestyles are the embodiment of living large and bring justice to the word diva. I bet many of you are wondering, out of all the glitzy and glamorous ladies out there in hollywood land, who gets the biggest paycheck? Who is the lucky gal who beat the likes of Gal Gadot, Mila Kunis, Cate Blanchett, and legends like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Anniston?

 

The answer is Scarlett Johansson. At 33 years old she is living the limelight and can literally bathe in money with the whopping $40.5 million she made in the past year. Forbes ranked her number 1, while Angelina Jolie came in second with $28 million thanks to her role in “Maleficent 2” and Jennifer Anniston came in at third with $19.5 million which she earned from her Emirates, Smartwear, and Aveeno endorsements. Jennifer Lawrence, 28, was fourth on the list with continued earnings from her role in the “X-Men” series and an endorsement contract with Christian Dior. J Law’s USD 18 million income was USD 6 million less than the prior year. Reese Witherspoon, 42, is at fifth with $16.5 million. The rest of the top 10 were Mila Kunis, Cate Blanchett, Melissa McCarthy and Gal Gadot. The combined earnings of the top 10 women this year is USD 186 million. In a surprising turn of events, the world’s highest paid actress last year (2017), Emma Stone, was not part of the top ten list.

 

How did Scarlett Johansson beat the likes of Angelina Jolie? She may not have a Black Widow movie of her own but her role is integral to the Marvel cinematic universe. The massive success of the Marvel movie franchise with her recurring roles in it made her the world’s highest paid actress. Scarlett has quadrupled her previous year’s income thanks to her role in the Avengers film, Avegers: Infinity War, not to mention her return in 2019’s Avengers latest installment thanks to her surviving the now infamous “finger snap” Thanos did to wipe out half of all life in the universe. She career kicked off way back in 1996 with “Manny & Lo” and got her big break in 1998’s “Horse Whisperer”. Her lead roles in “Ghost In The Shell” and the first “Avengers” film firmly established her status as a femme fatale with a depth of character rarely seen.

 

But to her credit, she would eventually top this chart even without the Marvel franchise backing her up. Scarlett is an incredibly talented actress, with a beauty that has established her not only as an international sex symbol, but truly an extremely bankable addition to any Hollywood production. We are looking forward to Scarlett’s next movie and she is indeed deserving of her title of the world’s highest paid actress.