next »

[imran]

04. Jennifer Aniston - $20 Million
Thanks to Friends, Aniston would be fine if she never worked another day in her life. Instead, she's mostly doing movies that appeal to her artistic side. The actress takes pay cuts to appear in films like Horrible Bosses and We're the Millers. She still earns big from her deals with Vitamin Water and Aveeno skin care and she's never out of the press. Her recent engagement to actor Justin Theroux was one of the biggest tabloid stories of 2012.

[imran]

03. Kristen Stewart - $22 Million
The Twilight money is still rolling in, for now. Stewart topped our list of Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actresses last year and is third this year, but she likely won't be on it again for a while. While she helped make Snow White and the Huntsman a hit, a sequel is still a ways off and the actress doesn't seem terribly interested in doing more big-budget movies.

[imran]

02. Jennifer Lawrence - $26 Million
Hollywood's new It girl walked away from 2012 with an Oscar for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook and one of the top-grossing movies of the year with The Hunger Games. Lawrence was paid under $1 million for the first Hunger Games movie but Lionsgate was happy to pay more to secure her for the second installment: Catching Fire. As Katniss, Lawrence has shown that action heroes don't always have to be played by men for a film to turn a profit.

[imran]

01. Angelina Jolie - $33 Million
Never one to shy away from controversy, Jolie recently shared with the world that she had undergone a voluntary double mastectomy because she carries a gene that puts her at a high risk for breast cancer. Her revelation sparked plenty of debate and showed again why Jolie is one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. It also explained her recent time out of the limelight but she's back in full force now with a big payday under her belt for Maleficent, Disney's new spin on the Sleeping Beauty story.