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The 18 Highest Paid Actresses of 2015

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Jennifer Lawrence tops the list of highest paid actresses, according to Forbes magazine.

Lawrence moved up from number 2 last year to the lead with an estimated $52 million in pay checks starting from June 2014 to June 2015. Jennifer Lawrence made $1 million more than last year’s leader, Sandra Bullock, who dropped to number 15 this time around with only $8 million earnings.

Jennifer Lawrence

Scarlett Johansson was ranked at number 2 with $35.5 million, followed by Melissa McCarthy‘s $23 million. Newcomers on the list include Amanda Seyfried and China’s Bingbing Fan.

Forbes noted that lucrative endorsement deals keep veteran actors Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Angelina Jolie in the top 20 not their movie careers.

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Here’s the top 18, as revealed Thursday on CBS This Morning:

  1. Jennifer Lawrence: $52,000,000
  2. Scarlett Johansson: $35,500,000
  3. Melissa McCarthy: $23,000,000
  4. Bingbing Fan: $21,000,000
  5. Jennifer Aniston: $16,500,000
  6. Julia Roberts: $16,000,000
  7. Angelina Jolie: $15,000,000
  8. Reese Witherspoon: $15,000,000
  9. Anne Hathaway: $12,000,000
  10. Kristen Stewart: $12,000,000
  11. Cameron Diaz: $11,000,000
  12. Gwyneth Paltrow: $9,000,000
  13. Meryl Streep: $8,000,000
  14. Amanda Seyfried: $8,000,000
  15. Sandra Bullock: $8,000,000
  16. Emma Stone: $6,500,000
  17. Mila Kunis: $6,500,000
  18. Natalie Portman: $6,000,000

Jennifer Lawrence is headed to Atlanta to film her new movie ‘Passengers’ alongside Chris Pratt.

Passengers is about a man, to be played by Pratt, who is among thousands of passengers on a colony ship partway through a decades-long interstellar journey. Awakened early from cryogenic sleep by a system malfunction, he finally makes the decision to wake another sleeping passenger, to be played by Lawrence, to avoid spending decades alone on the ship.

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