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Hollywood’s Highest Paid Actresses
The 2010 Highest Paid Hollywood Actresses by Forbes Magazine
1. Sandra Bullock - $56 million
This amount of money by Sandra Bullock has been derived primarily on her two hit movies – The Blind Side and The Proposal. She may be the highest paid actress but on the other aspect of her life, Sandra is not lucky in love. The same time that she was on top of the world because of box-office movies, the news regarding her break-up with her husband, Jesse James has also surfaced. Bullock eventually overcame this adversity and still gained the respect of the public.
2-3. Reese Witherspoon - $32 million
While Reese has not been on the movies lately, she still gets the second spot. After her last movie, Four Christmases, Reese is reportedly appearing on two movies – How Do You Know and Water for Elephants. The pay for these upcoming movies enabled Reese to earn more than the other more active Hollywood actresses. Reese is also Avon’s ambassador.
2-3. Cameron Diaz - $32 million
Together with Reese on the second spot is Cameron Diaz. We all know that a great part of the income of Cameron is from the movie Shrek. But aside from this movie, a significant amount of money was also earned by Cameron on her movie with Tom Cruise entitled Knight & Day as well as the upcoming movie with his ex, Justin Timberlake, entitled Bad Teacher.
4. Jennifer Aniston - $27 million
Because of her numerous romantic comedy films, Jennifer Aniston continues to hit the box office (e.g. The Bounty Hunter, Just Go With It and Love Happens). Aside from her movies, Aniston has lucrative deals with Smartwater and still even earns from the re-runs of Friends.
5. Sarah Jessica Parker - $25 million
When we hear of Sarah Jessica Parker, the first thing that comes to mind is Sex and the City. Indeed, both the series and the movie has helped increased the financial status of Parker. But aside from acting, SJP has diverse sources of income, which includes her line of perfume and the clothing she designs.
6-7. Julia Roberts - $20 million
6-7. Angelina Jolie - $20 million
8. Drew Barrymore - $15 million
9. Meryl Streep - $13 million
10. Kristen Stewart - $12 million
Here are few of the films of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses:
1. Sandra Bullock - $56 million
This amount of money by Sandra Bullock has been derived primarily on her two hit movies – The Blind Side and The Proposal. She may be the highest paid actress but on the other aspect of her life, Sandra is not lucky in love. The same time that she was on top of the world because of box-office movies, the news regarding her break-up with her husband, Jesse James has also surfaced. Bullock eventually overcame this adversity and still gained the respect of the public.
2-3. Reese Witherspoon - $32 million
While Reese has not been on the movies lately, she still gets the second spot. After her last movie, Four Christmases, Reese is reportedly appearing on two movies – How Do You Know and Water for Elephants. The pay for these upcoming movies enabled Reese to earn more than the other more active Hollywood actresses. Reese is also Avon’s ambassador.
2-3. Cameron Diaz - $32 million
Together with Reese on the second spot is Cameron Diaz. We all know that a great part of the income of Cameron is from the movie Shrek. But aside from this movie, a significant amount of money was also earned by Cameron on her movie with Tom Cruise entitled Knight & Day as well as the upcoming movie with his ex, Justin Timberlake, entitled Bad Teacher.
4. Jennifer Aniston - $27 million
Because of her numerous romantic comedy films, Jennifer Aniston continues to hit the box office (e.g. The Bounty Hunter, Just Go With It and Love Happens). Aside from her movies, Aniston has lucrative deals with Smartwater and still even earns from the re-runs of Friends.
5. Sarah Jessica Parker - $25 million
When we hear of Sarah Jessica Parker, the first thing that comes to mind is Sex and the City. Indeed, both the series and the movie has helped increased the financial status of Parker. But aside from acting, SJP has diverse sources of income, which includes her line of perfume and the clothing she designs.
6-7. Julia Roberts - $20 million
6-7. Angelina Jolie - $20 million
8. Drew Barrymore - $15 million
9. Meryl Streep - $13 million
10. Kristen Stewart - $12 million
Here are few of the films of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses:
Of all the new millennium's young female movie stars, only one has proved herself capable of single-handedly headlining a series of major box-office h
Biography
Of all the new millennium's young female movie stars, only one has proved herself capable of single-handedly headlining a series of major box-office hits. Not Julia Stiles, not Kirsten Dunst, not Sarah Michelle Gellar. They are successful, but still mostly team-players. Only Reese Witherspoon has gone beyond that. Breaking through with Legally Blonde and making a $100 million hit of Sweet Home Alabama, then winning a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk The Line, she separated herself entirely from the new Brat Pack and supplanted Julia Roberts as the most popular female star in Hollywood. And this was wholly deliberate as Witherspoon could well rival Madonna in terms of blonde ambition.
She was born Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon in New Orleans on the 22nd of March, 1976. She'd spend the first four years of her life in Wiesbaden, Germany where her father, John, was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves, there to fulfil his Vietnam draft obligation. After this, the family - John, wife Betty, first child John Jr and little Laura Jean - would return to America to settle in Nashville.
This was a predictable move for the Witherspoons, being deeply rooted in the South. Their earliest American ancestor, another John, had crossed the pond from Scotland, becoming President of the prestigious Princeton University. Such was his standing that he was asked to sign the original Declaration of Independence. Eventually the family would migrate to the southern states, where they'd be a paragon of the region's genteel aristocracy.
Many decades later, John, who'd graduate top of his class at Yale, would meet Betty while the pair were studying at the University of Tennessee. They'd marry, but their studies would continue, John becoming a surgeon specialising in the ear, nose and throat, while Betty, who'd earn five separate degrees, would become a Ph.D in pediatric nursing, winding up as a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University.
Hailing from such stock, Laura Jean was bound to either hit the heights or crash and burn. Sensible from the start, she chose the former. At school, as a self-confessed "huge book dork", she achieved excellent grades, and would be taken on at the famous Harpeth Hall School For Girls in Nashville (former alumni including the Grand Ole Oprey's Minnie Pearl and pop singer Amy Grant). She'd be both a cheerleader and a debutante, though in later years she'd complain whenever this was mentioned, clearly believing that it undermined her reputation for intelligence and professionalism (her part in Legally Blonde would be close to her heart). Coming from such an academic family, and never having been considered exceptionally good-looking, she was always driven to achieve.
She was born Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon in New Orleans on the 22nd of March, 1976. She'd spend the first four years of her life in Wiesbaden, Germany where her father, John, was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves, there to fulfil his Vietnam draft obligation. After this, the family - John, wife Betty, first child John Jr and little Laura Jean - would return to America to settle in Nashville.
This was a predictable move for the Witherspoons, being deeply rooted in the South. Their earliest American ancestor, another John, had crossed the pond from Scotland, becoming President of the prestigious Princeton University. Such was his standing that he was asked to sign the original Declaration of Independence. Eventually the family would migrate to the southern states, where they'd be a paragon of the region's genteel aristocracy.
Many decades later, John, who'd graduate top of his class at Yale, would meet Betty while the pair were studying at the University of Tennessee. They'd marry, but their studies would continue, John becoming a surgeon specialising in the ear, nose and throat, while Betty, who'd earn five separate degrees, would become a Ph.D in pediatric nursing, winding up as a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University.
Hailing from such stock, Laura Jean was bound to either hit the heights or crash and burn. Sensible from the start, she chose the former. At school, as a self-confessed "huge book dork", she achieved excellent grades, and would be taken on at the famous Harpeth Hall School For Girls in Nashville (former alumni including the Grand Ole Oprey's Minnie Pearl and pop singer Amy Grant). She'd be both a cheerleader and a debutante, though in later years she'd complain whenever this was mentioned, clearly believing that it undermined her reputation for intelligence and professionalism (her part in Legally Blonde would be close to her heart). Coming from such an academic family, and never having been considered exceptionally good-looking, she was always driven to achieve.
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