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Records were made to be broken, and these actors have proven their worth with their movies earning millions in the box office worldwide. The highest grossing actor of all time may be Samuel L. Jackson with his cumulative box office revenue of all the movies he has done, but Robert Downey Jr. came on top with the highest amount of money he has brought in per movie in the last years. With billions of of dollars brought in by several actors in the movie industry, listed below are the top ten actors who have brought in the highest amount of movie per movie in the last years.
Ian McKellen
Best known as a supporting actor based on his movie credits, Ian McKellen has garnered a total of $4,335,831,907 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 20 movies. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Mckellen has brought in $10,169,324 box office gross per movie in the last year. He is best known for his role as Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past, Gandalf in The Hobbit, and Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast.
Matt Damon
Best known as a leading actor based on his movie credits, Matt Damon has garnered a total of $5,682,124,474 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 36 films. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Damon has brought in $11,065,514 box office gross per movie in the last year. He is best known for his role as Jason Bourne in the movie of the same name, Mark Watney in The Martian and Dr. Mann in the movie Interstellar.
Bradley Cooper
Best known as a leading actor based on his movie credits, Bradley Cooper has garnered a total of $2,887,179,670 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 17 movies. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Cooper has brought in $11,265,684 box office gross per movie. He is best known for his role as Rocket in Avengers series of movies and Guardians of the Galaxy and Chris Kyle in American Sniper.
Julia Roberts
Best known as a leading actress based on her movie credits, Julia Roberts has garnered a total of $3,871,464,906 worldwide aggregate box office for her roles in 28 movies. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Roberts has brought in $11,563,453 box office gross per movie in the last year. She is best known for her roles in the recent movies as Tess Ocean in Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve and Captian Kate Hazeltine in Valentine’s Day.
Denzel Washington
Best known as a leading actor based on his movie credits, Denzel Washington has garnered a total of $4,081,092,550 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 46 movies. . Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Washington has brought in $11,772,758 box office gross per movie in the last years. He is best known for his roles as Robert McCall in The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Best known as a leading Actor based on movie credits, Leonardo DiCaprio has garnered a total of $6,684,197,473 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 23 films. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, DiCaprio has brought in $11,892,257 box office gross per movie in the last years. He is best known for his roles as Jack Dawson on the film Titanic.
Jon Favreau
Best known as a supporting actor based on his movie credits, Jon Favreau has garnered a total of $8,601,694,486 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 23 movies. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Favreau has brought in $12,575,803 box office gross per movie in the last years. He is best known for his roles as Happy Hogan in numerous Marvel movies.
Clint Eastwood
Best known as a leading Actor based on his movie credits, Clint Eastwood has garnered a total of $2,448,585,090 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 48 movies. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Eastwood has brought in $13,000,290 box office gross per movie in the last years. Eastwood is best known for his movie roles as Earl Stone in the movie The Mule, Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino, and Frankie Dunn in Million Dollar Baby.
Will Smith
Best known as a leading actor based on his movie credits, Will Smith has garnered a total of $6,562,865,250 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 29 films. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Smith has brought in $13,260,788 box office gross per movie in the last years. He is best known for his roles as Detective Mike Lowrey for Bad Boys, John Hancock in Hancock and Deadshot in Suicide Squad.
Robert Downey, Jr.
Best known as a leading actor based on his movie credits, Robert Downey, Jr. has garnered a total of $2,460,320,068 worldwide aggregate box office for his roles in 29 movies. Based on the Hollywood Creative Graph from The Numbers, Downey has brought in $16,706,061 box office gross per movie in the last years. He is best known for his roles as Tony Stark/Iron Man in numerous Marvel movies.
Sources: Statista, The Numbers, Cinema Blend