The highest paid TV actors
October 21st, 2012 at 9:00 am by David FarrarAlways interesting to see how much individual actors are deemed essential to the ongoing success of a show, and accordingly paid. Forbes list the highest paid:
- Ashton Kutcher US$24m, Two and a half men
- Sofia Vergera, $19m, Modern Family
- Hugh Laurie $18m, House
- Ray Romano $18m, Men of a Certain Age
- Kim Kardashian, $18m
- Eva Longoria, $15m, Desperate Housewives
- Alec Baldwin $15m, 30 Rock
- Mark Harmon $15m, NCIS
- Tim Allen, $14m, Last Man Standing
- Jon Cryer, $13m, Two and a half men
- Bethenny Frankel, $12m, Bethenny
- Patrick Dempsey, $12m, Grey’s Anatomy
- Khloe Kardishian, $11m
- Tina Fey, $11m, 30 Rock
- Mariska Hargitay, $10m, Law & Order:SVU
- Zooey Deschanel, $9m, New Girl
- Felicity Huffman, $9m, Desperate Housewives
- Ellen Pompeo, $9m, Grey;s Anatomy
- Jim Parsons, $8m, Big Bang Theory
- Johnny Galecki, $8m, Big Bang Theory
Personally I am not a Ray Romano fan. Annoying.
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October 21st, 2012 at 9:22 am
I’m not a fan of any of them and haven’t watched one of those shows from beginning to end.(Laurie was excellent in Blackadder though)
The Kardashians aren’t even actresses (a female cannot be an actor) and as the saying goes ,are famous for being famous.
It is a sad reflection on modern society that this list of over paid nobodies is who and what so many in the west aspire to.
Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 9:39 am
You look at the talented, beautiful people on the list and wonder… why is Kim Kardashian earning $18m?
Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 9:43 am
A sad reflection of the shallow times we live in. Personally, I do not watch any TV.
Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 9:50 am
They forgot to include Obama on that list.
Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 10:03 am
All these shows are prime examples of Gramsci’s theory that the way forward for the left is by means of subliminal cultural induction.
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The sooner liberal Hollywood is broke, the sooner we will see the end of these overpaid under talented charlatans, whose main employ is as propagandists for progressivism.
Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 10:09 am
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Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 10:49 am
Spot-on, Redbaiter.
Vote:Media, teachers’ colleges, universities, schools. They’ve all been subverted by leftist crap.
October 21st, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Sofia Vergera- Giggidy…
Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 1:23 pm
The bizarre obsessions of the neo-facist Kiwiblog commenters are out on display again.
Vote:October 21st, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Hi.. I’m a student from Waikato University and I’d like to see them all paid a maximum wage of $200K. Then the world can start revolving properly. (KB inside joke)
One small point with some folks on the list: They aren’t just paid for onscreen work.
Tina Fey owns 30Rock I’m fairly certain. I’d guess that Ray Romano and Tim Allen are similarly tied to their shows.
TRIVIA: If you think acting salaries are bad… Sam Simon of Simpsons fame makes around US$30M per year in royalties. His involvement with the show ended in 1993. He also keeps an eternal credit on every new episode as part of his departing deal. WOW!!
I went off Friends a bit when I found out they ended up on a million per episode. Really?? Far out.
TRIVIA: Not only is Julia Louis-Dreyfus a highly successful actress of Seinfeld fame worth millions, but also stands to inherit a fortune from her father who has an estimated net worth of $2.9B (US I assume?).
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