Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Actor

It’s Official: Robert Downey Jr. is Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Actor
Iron Man? More like 'gold man'

How much green does it take to be the highest-paid actor in Hollywood? This year, that magic number is $75 million—and the man who brought home the big bucks (accrued between June 2012 and June 2013) was … Robert Downey Jr. The Iron Man actor topped this year’s Forbes list of the highest paid actors.

Though Forbes points out that Downey had a long history of failure in the years before he went superhero, his franchises (Iron Man and The Avengers) are proven box-office winners — and the actor’s bank accounts show it. The list looks only at estimated earnings, unlike the magazine’s other rankings; their power list, for example, takes into consideration factors like social-media visibility.

Here are the rest of this year’s top ten:

Channing Tatum ($60 million), Hugh Jackman ($55 million), Mark Wahlberg ($52 million), Dwayne Johnson ($46 million), Leonardo DiCaprio ($39 million), Adam Sandler ($37 million), Tom Cruise ($35 million), Denzel Washington ($33 million) and Liam Neeson ($32 million).

Worth noting: another result of this list looking at earnings alone is that fortunes can change rapidly. Though he still squeezed out a top-ten spot, thanks to Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise was last year’s leading earner with—you guessed it—$75 million coming in between May 2011 and May 2012.