Which 6 Marvel superhero actors are among world’s top-paid celebrities?
- Actor Robert Downey Jr started the franchise off with 2008’s Iron Man – but he’s not the highest-ranked star in new Forbes 2019 Celebrity list
Playing the role of a Marvel superhero has its perks.
Six actors who have played characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are among the highest-paid celebrities in the world, according to the new Forbes 2019 Celebrity 100 list.
They include Thor actor Chris Hemsworth, who earned more in the past year than the other five MCU actors on the list, including Iron Man himself Robert Downey Jr and Bradley Cooper, who voices Guardians of the Galaxy's talking raccoon, Rocket.
The Forbes Celebrity 100 list, published on Wednesday ranks entertainers around the world based on their pre-tax earnings from June 1 last year up to to June 1 this year.
Chris Hemsworth started out with a fee of US$150,000 for 2011's Thor, but has earned US$15 million per film since 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok
Marvel actors usually earn more the longer they star in the franchise.
Downey Jr was paid US$500,000 for playing the title role in the first film, Iron Man, in 2008, but earned US$75 million a decade later for his 2018 turn in Avengers: Infinity War, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Hemsworth started out with a fee of US$150,000 for 2011’s Thor, but has earned US$15 million per film since 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok.
Check out the six MCU actors who landed on Forbes’ 2019 Celebrity 100 list:
Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) – US$41 million
Forbes ranking: 83/100
Rudd earned a percentage of the profits from last year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and this year’s Avengers: Endgame, according to Forbes.
Chris Evans (Captain America) – US$43.5 million
