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Highest Grossing Stars of 2016 at the Worldwide Box Office


See also: Top Domestic 2016 Stars - Top International 2016 Stars - Top Worldwide 2020 Stars - Top Worldwide 2021 Stars - Top Worldwide 2022 Stars - Top Worldwide 2023 Stars - Top Worldwide 2024 Stars - Top Worldwide 2025 Stars

This list shows the highest grossing stars of 2016 based on the Worldwide box office of the movies they had a leading role in in 2016 and the two preceeding years (voice-only roles excluded).

The Star Score in this list represent points assigned to each of the leading stars of top 100 (based on worldwide box office) movies in the current year and two preceding years. For appearing in the number one movie in a year a star gets 100 points, the number two movie 99 points and so on. This rewards actors for appearing in a number of hit films over the course of three years more than starring in just one monster hit over the same time period.

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Jennifer Lawrence
Best known as a Leading Actress based on credits in that role in 23 films.
Top films contributed to this record: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 ($766,575,131 in 2014), X-Men: Days of Future Past ($747,862,775 in 2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 ($646,219,954 in 2015), X-Men: Apocalypse ($542,537,546 in 2016), Passengers ($302,239,672 in 2016), Joy ($101,134,059 in 2015)

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Samuel L. Jackson
Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 56 films.
Top films contributed to this record: Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1,395,316,979 in 2015), Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($714,401,889 in 2014), Kingsman: The Secret Service ($404,561,724 in 2015), Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ($295,986,876 in 2016), The Hateful Eight ($151,813,358 in 2015)

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Scarlett Johansson
Best known as a Lead Ensemble Member Actress based on credits in that role in 18 films.
Top films contributed to this record: Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1,395,316,979 in 2015), Captain America: Civil War ($1,151,899,586 in 2016), Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($714,401,889 in 2014), Lucy ($457,507,776 in 2014)

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Complete List

Rank Name Star
Score		 Movies Average
Billing
1 Jennifer Lawrence 466 6 2.0
2 Samuel L. Jackson 393 5 6.0
3 Scarlett Johansson 374 4 2.8
4 Chris Pratt 311 4 1.5
5 Matt Damon 299 4 1.3
6 Chris Evans 291 3 2.0
7 Shailene Woodley 270 4 1.0
8 Mark Wahlberg 266 4 1.3
9 Jeremy Renner 254 3 4.3
10 Michael Fassbender 246 3 2.0
11 Margot Robbie 227 3 2.7
12 Chris Hemsworth 225 4 2.8
13 Tom Cruise 218 3 1.0
14 Ben Affleck 218 3 1.3
15 Dwayne Johnson 211 3 1.0
16 Donnie Yen 205 3 2.0
17 Robert Downey, Jr. 202 3 1.3
18 Theo James 201 4 2.5
19 Felicity Jones 199 3 1.7
20 Elizabeth Olsen 197 2 10.0
21 Sebastian Stan 194 2 3.5
22 Emily Blunt 188 4 1.8
23 Mads Mikkelsen 188 2 5.0
24 Mark Ruffalo 187 3 2.0
25 Dylan O’Brien 185 3 2.3
26 Aaron Taylor-Johnson 184 2 5.5
27 Kevin Hart 183 5 1.8
28 James McAvoy 182 2 1.5
29 Tom Hanks 180 3 1.0
30 Benedict Cumberbatch 179 3 1.7
31 Channing Tatum 177 3 1.3
32 Rebel Wilson 177 3 4.3
33 Hugh Jackman 176 3 1.7
34 Jai Courtney 175 2 4.5
35 Zoe Saldana 173 2 3.5
36 Tom Hardy 169 2 1.5
37 Jason Statham 160 3 2.0
38 Will Smith 158 3 1.0
39 Sofia Boutella 158 2 7.5
40 Joel Kinnaman 157 3 2.3
41 Liam Neeson 157 4 2.5
42 Michael Peña 157 3 4.3
43 Michael Caine 156 2 5.5
44 Melissa McCarthy 154 4 1.0
45 Kaya Scodelario 153 2 2.0
46 Thomas Brodie-Sangster 153 2 3.0
47 Amy Adams 151 2 2.0
48 Jason Clarke 150 2 1.5
49 Alicia Vikander 149 3 3.3
50 Chris Pine 147 3 3.3
51 Ben Foster 144 2 4.0
52 Eva Green 143 2 1.5
53 Emilia Clarke 143 2 2.5
54 Arnold Schwarzenegger 143 2 9.0
55 Charlize Theron 142 3 2.0
56 Vin Diesel 141 2 1.0
57 Colin Firth 141 2 1.5
58 Zhang Hanyu 141 2 3.0
59 Tilda Swinton 141 2 10.0
60 Chao Deng 140 3 1.0
61 Dakota Johnson 140 3 3.0
62 Morgan Freeman 140 3 6.0
63 Andrew Garfield 139 2 1.0
64 Chadwick Boseman 137 2 7.0
65 Brad Pitt 134 3 2.0
66 Eddie Redmayne 132 2 1.0
67 Jeff Goldblum 132 2 4.0
68 Chow Yun-Fat 131 4 1.0
69 Owen Wilson 131 2 9.5
70 Baihe Bai 129 2 1.0
71 George Clooney 128 3 1.0
72 Henry Cavill 128 2 1.0
73 Ryan Gosling 128 2 2.0
74 Anne Hathaway 128 2 2.0
75 Huang Bo 128 2 2.5
76 Aaron Kwok 127 3 1.7
77 Willem Dafoe 126 2 4.5
78 Rachel McAdams 124 3 3.0
79 Xu Zheng 123 2 1.0
80 Johnny Depp 121 3 1.0
81 Jude Law 119 2 5.0
82 Sylvester Stallone 118 2 1.5
83 Keira Knightley 116 3 3.0
84 Michael B. Jordan 115 2 1.5
85 Zac Efron 115 4 1.8
86 Bradley Cooper 115 2 2.0
87 Christian Bale 114 2 1.0
88 Lu Han 113 2 4.0
89 Corey Stoll 113 2 5.5
90 Adam Sandler 111 2 1.0
91 Mila Kunis 111 2 1.5
92 Emma Stone 111 2 4.0
93 Eddie Peng 111 3 4.3
94 Skyler Gisondo 109 2 8.0
95 Robert De Niro 108 3 1.3
96 Will Ferrell 104 2 1.0
97 Wallace Chung 104 2 2.5
98 Kevin Costner 104 2 3.0
99 Cara Delevingne 104 2 6.5
100 Kevin James 103 2 1.5

The Average Billing column contains the average billing position of this cast/crew member for the selected films.

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.

Image attributions

Jennifer Lawrence: By Jennifer_Lawrence_at_the_83rd_Academy_Awards.jpg: Mingle MediaTV derivative work: Tabercil (Jennifer_Lawrence_at_the_83rd_Academy_Awards.jpg) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommons.org)], via Wikimedia Commons

Samuel L. Jackson: By pinguino k (originally posted to Flickr as samuel l jackson) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Scarlett Johansson: Foto: © JCS / , via Wikimedia Commons