ENTERTAINMENT NEWS … HOW MUCH IS YOUR FAVOURITE ACTOR WORTH?

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS …

HOW MUCH IS YOUR FAVOURITE

ACTOR WORTH?

Tom Cruise: $250 Million [Katie is worth $25 Million]

Actor Tom Cruise was born Thomas Cruise Mapother and has an estimated net worth of $250 million. Cruise spent his early years moving around the country, with a brief stint in Canada. His first taste of acting came in high school when, after a knee injury rendered him off of the wrestling team, Cruise won the lead role in Guys and Dolls. After high school, Cruise moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. After a handful of minor and supporting roles, Cruise had his big break with Risky Business, and secured Cruise as an up and coming star and earned him his first Golden Globe nomination.

His next big hits were the 1986 film Top Gun, which grossed $356 million worldwide and 1989’s Rain Man, which won four Academy Awards. Cruise’s first Oscar nomination came a year later with Born on the Fourth of July, followed by a Golden Globe nomination for A Few Good Men. Cruise simultaneously starred in and produced the blockbuster hit Mission: Impossible, which grossed worldwide at $457 million and produced two more successful sequels. Other films produced by Cruise include The Last Samurai, The Others, and Shattered Glass. Cruise’s second and third Academy Award nominations came with the critically and commercially successful films Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, for which he did earn a Golden Globe Award. To date, over twenty of Cruise’s films have grossed well over $100 million worldwide. Tom is currently married to actress Katie Holmes.

Leonardo DiCaprio: $200 Million

Actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio was born and raised in Los Angeles and has a net worth estimated at $200 million. After appearing in a smattering of commercials and television roles, including a reoccurring role on the last season of Growing Pains, DiCaprio landed the lead in biopic This Boy’s Life and received much critical praise for his performance. His next role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? earned DiCaprio an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. Dicaprio garnered acclaim for his performances in the intense dramas, Total Eclipse and The Basketball Diaries.

In 1996, DiCaprio starred in the box office hit William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet which grossed $147.5 million worldwide. Following this success came the 1997 film Titanic, a record-breaking, multi-award winning film that secured DiCaprio as a leading man. DiCaprio moved forward with a string of successful movies, including Catch Me if You Can (grossed $352 million worldwide), Gangs of New York (grossed $193.7 million worldwide), The Aviator (grossed $211.7 million worldwide), The Departed ($289 million worldwide), and award-winning film Revolutionary Road. DiCaprio’s credits as a producer include The Aviator and Orphan. Among DiCaprio’s awards are two Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, one Golden Globe Award and numerous critics’ groups’ awards.

Johnny Depp: $200 Million

Johnny Depp is an American actor whose films have grossed $2.3 billion in America and $4.8 billion worldwide. His personal net worth is $200 million, his annual salary is over $25 million. Depp was born in Kentucky and moved frequently as a child; at the age of fifteen, he dropped out of school and joined a band, and later moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of a record contract. He decided to pursue acting instead, and took minor film roles throughout the 1980s, including a role in Nightmare on Elm Street. In 1987, he won a starring role on the TV show 21 Jump Street, and in 1990 he collaborated for the first time with Tim Burton, playing the title role in Edward Scissorhands. The two would go on to collaborate on a total of seven films, including Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

In 2003, Depp appeared in the first of three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, playing eccentric pirate captain Jack Sparrow; his performance earned him an Academy Award nomination, which he followed up with another nominated performance as the author J.M. Barrie in 2004’s Finding Neverland. He was nominated again in 2008 for his role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Depp married Lori Anne Allison in 1983, though the couple divorced in 1985. He has been in a relationship with French actress Vanessa Paradis; they have two children and split their time between Los Angeles and the south of France.

Will Smith: $188 Million

[It didn't say how much Jada is worth]

Will Smith is an actor, film producer and rapper with a net worth estimated at $188 million. With modest beginnings as the son of a school administrator and refrigerator engineer in west Philadelphia, Smith became recognized as the vocals for the radio-friendly rap group DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince, earning the first Grammy ever won for the newly formed Rap category in 1988. Smith’s acting debut came in 1990 starring in the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which spanned six seasons and won several awards.

Smith’s film debut with the drama Where the Day Takes You, but kicked his career into high gear with a rapid succession of action films including Bad Boys, Independence Day, and Men in Black, the latter two earning worldwide revenues at $817.4 million and $589.3 million, respectfully. Smith never left music, though, and while working simultaneously on his films released four solo albums, two which have gone platinum. Smith had numerous hit singles, among them Men in Black, and Gettin’ Jiggy wit It, earning Smith two consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Rap Solo Performance. Smith was twice nominated for an Academy Award, both for portraying real people, Muhammad Ali in Ali and Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness. In addition to acting in, Smith has also produced several of his films including I Am Legend, Seven Pounds and Hitch. Among his awards, Smith has two BET Awards, one Image Award, four MTV movie Awards, and two People’s Choice Awards.

George Clooney: $160 Million

George Clooney is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and activist. One of most sought-after actors in Hollywood, he has a net worth of $160 million. Clooney was born in Kentucky and raised there and in Ohio, and upon moving to Los Angeles won minor roles in television shows such as The Facts of Life, Roseanne, and The Golden Girls. His first major role was on the sitcom E/R in 1984—not to be confused with his star-making role on the NBC drama ER, which began ten years later. While still on ER, he appeared in a number of films, including From Dusk til Dawn, One Fine Day, and Out of Sight; he also succeeded Val Kilmer as Batman, though he appeared only in Batman & Robin.

He left the show in 1999 and had a spate of box office successes, including his most popular to date, Ocean’s 11. In 2005, Clooney appeared in the film Syriana, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; the same year, he was also nominated both for writing and directing Good Night, and Good Luck, and became the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for directing one film and acting in another in the same year. Clooney is active in a variety of political causes, including the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, and fundraising for relief after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He married Talia Balsam in 1989; they divorced in 1993, and Clooney went on to live with his pet pig, Max, until the pig’s death in 2006.

Brad Pitt: $150 Million

[Angelina Jolie is worth $90 Million]

Award-winning film actor and producer Brad Pitt has an estimated net worth of $150 million. Raised in Springfield Missouri, Pitt left the University of Missouri for Los Angeles two weeks prior to his graduation in order to pursue his dreams of a career in acting. After various guest appearances and minor roles, Pitt gained notoriety for his supporting role in Thelma and Louise before going on to star in the Academy-Award winning film A River Runs Through It. Pitt received tremendous praise for his performance in the highly successful 1995 crime drama Seven, which grossed $327 million worldwide. Pitt received a Golden Globe award as well as an Academy Award nomination for his next film, Twelve Monkeys.

Pitt’s dedication to his roles has taken him up the Alps, in the boxing ring, and in the depths of startlingly accurate accents. Other noteworthy films of Pitt’s career are: Oceans Eleven, Troy, Pitt’s highest grossing film to date, award-winning Babel, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which garnered Pitt his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. As a producer, Pitt co-found Plan B Entertainment with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, which has helped produce such films as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Departed, which earned the 2007 Academy Award for Best Picture. Additionally, Pitt is involved with humanitarian causes, specifically the ONE Campaign, Make It Right Foundation, and global humanitarian aid fund, Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which he co-founded with partner Angelina Jolie.

Tom Hanks: $130 Million

Tom Hanks is one of the most famous, highest-regarded, and best-paid actors in Hollywood. With a net worth of $130 million and a worldwide total box office gross of $3.521 billion, he is also the number-one box office star in the world. Hanks was born and raised near San Francisco, and studied drama in community college and at California State University at Sacramento until he was encouraged to join the Great Lakes Theater Festival, an internship that stretched into a three-year commitment. In 1980, he moved to New York City and landed the cross-dressing sitcom Bosom Buddies, which lasted two seasons, and which he followed up with a series of minor film roles.

He gained major recognition in 1988 for his role in the hit movie Big, and has since made a career of defying genre constraints: he went on to appear in Sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13, Toy Story, You’ve Got Mail, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels and Demons, among others. In 1993 and 1994, Hanks became the second actor in history to win back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actor: in 1993 for Philadelphia, in which he played an HIV-positive attorney, and in 1994 for Forrest Gump, in which he played the title role. In 1996, Hanks wrote and directed That Thing You Do!, kicking off his career behind the camera; he has since directed and/or produced several more movies, including Cast Away and The Polar Express. Hanks was married to Samantha Lewes from 1978 – 1987, and he married actress Rita Wilson in 1988. He has four children, including actor Colin Hanks.

Bruce Willis: $80 Million

Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and musician with a net worth of $80 million. Born in Germany to a bank teller and an American serviceman, Willis moved to Penns Grove, New Jersey as a child and attended the drama program at Montclair State University until he left to pursue acting in New York City. He has appeared in over sixty films, and although he is best known as an action star, he got his first big break (and several major awards) on the TV comedy Moonlighting, in which he flirted with Cybill Shepherd for five seasons.

Willis’s critical reception has been inconsistent, but he has also delivered several box-office hits: he starred in four Die Hard movies, grossing a total of $1.1 billion worldwide, as well as Armageddon—the highest-grossing film of 1998, at $553 million—and The Sixth Sense. He won two Emmys (for Moonlighting and for a guest-starring role on Friends) and a Golden Globe (for Moonlighting). Willis is also a musician, with three rock albums and favorable reviews to his name. Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987 and had three daughters (Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Belle) before their divorce in 2000; he subsequently married model Emma Heming in 2009.

Matt Damon: $65 Million

Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor, writer and philanthropist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 8, 1970. One of America’s most successful and sought-after actors, he currently earns approximately $24 million a year. Damon has one brother and briefly attended Harvard University before launching his career in show business. His big break came when he and his good friend Ben Affleck wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting. They each received an Oscar for Best Screenplay and Damon also won the Oscar for Best Actor. Other important film roles quickly followed in such films as Saving Private Ryan,The Talented Mr. Ripley and featured parts in the Bourne Series and the “Ocean’s” Series. Matt Damon already has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, has received many award nominations, including 4 from the Screen Actors Guild and was voted Sexiest Man Alive in 2007 by People Magazine. He also owns his own movie production company, Live Planet.

Why these two don't get a little snippet, I don't know, but here you go :

Christian Bale: $60 Million

Robert Downey Jr.: $55 Million