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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 2019 Stars - Top Worldwide 2020 Stars - Top Worldwide 2021 Stars - Top Worldwide 2022 Stars - Top Worldwide 2023 Stars - Top Worldwide 2024 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 21 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 55 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 265 4 1.3
9 Jeremy Renner 254 3 4.3
10 Michael Fassbender 247 3 2.0
11 Margot Robbie 226 3 2.7
12 Chris Hemsworth 221 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 Robert Downey, Jr. 202 3 1.3
17 Felicity Jones 199 3 1.7
18 Theo James 199 4 2.5
19 Elizabeth Olsen 197 2 10.0
20 Sebastian Stan 194 2 3.5
21 Emily Blunt 189 4 1.8
22 Mark Ruffalo 188 3 2.0
23 Mads Mikkelsen 188 2 5.0
24 Kevin Hart 185 5 1.8
25 Dylan O’Brien 184 3 2.3
26 Aaron Taylor-Johnson 184 2 5.5
27 James McAvoy 182 2 1.5
28 Tom Hanks 179 3 1.0
29 Benedict Cumberbatch 178 3 1.7
30 Channing Tatum 177 3 1.3
31 Hugh Jackman 176 3 1.7
32 Jai Courtney 175 2 4.5
33 Zoe Saldana 173 2 3.5
34 Tom Hardy 169 2 1.5
35 Rebel Wilson 169 3 4.3
36 Jason Statham 160 3 2.0
37 Joel Kinnaman 159 3 2.3
38 Liam Neeson 158 4 2.5
39 Sofia Boutella 158 2 7.5
40 Michael Caine 156 2 5.5
41 Will Smith 153 3 1.0
42 Kaya Scodelario 153 2 2.0
43 Thomas Brodie-Sangster 153 2 3.0
44 Melissa McCarthy 152 4 1.0
45 Michael Peña 152 3 4.3
46 Amy Adams 151 2 2.0
47 Donnie Yen 151 2 2.5
48 Jason Clarke 150 2 1.5
49 Alicia Vikander 149 3 3.3
50 Chris Pine 147 3 3.3
51 Ben Foster 145 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 Vin Diesel 142 2 1.0
56 Zhang Hanyu 142 2 3.0
57 Colin Firth 141 2 1.5
58 Charlize Theron 141 3 2.0
59 Tilda Swinton 141 2 10.0
60 Chao Deng 140 3 1.0
61 Andrew Garfield 139 2 1.0
62 Morgan Freeman 138 3 6.0
63 Chadwick Boseman 137 2 7.0
64 Brad Pitt 134 3 2.0
65 Eddie Redmayne 132 2 1.0
66 Jeff Goldblum 132 2 4.0
67 Dakota Johnson 131 3 3.0
68 Owen Wilson 131 2 9.5
69 Baihe Bai 129 2 1.0
70 Henry Cavill 128 2 1.0
71 Ryan Gosling 128 2 2.0
72 Anne Hathaway 128 2 2.0
73 Huang Bo 128 2 2.5
74 George Clooney 126 3 1.0
75 Rachel McAdams 126 3 3.0
76 Willem Dafoe 126 2 4.5
77 Xu Zheng 123 2 1.0
78 Johnny Depp 120 3 1.0
79 Jude Law 119 2 5.0
80 Sylvester Stallone 118 2 1.5
81 Christian Bale 115 2 1.0
82 Michael B. Jordan 115 2 1.5
83 Bradley Cooper 115 2 2.0
84 Lu Han 113 2 4.0
85 Zac Efron 112 3 2.0
86 Corey Stoll 112 2 5.5
87 Adam Sandler 111 2 1.0
88 Mila Kunis 111 2 1.5
89 Keira Knightley 111 3 3.0
90 Emma Stone 110 2 4.0
91 Eddie Peng 110 3 4.3
92 Skyler Gisondo 109 2 8.0
93 Robert De Niro 107 3 1.3
94 Kevin Costner 105 2 3.0
95 Cara Delevingne 105 2 6.5
96 Will Ferrell 104 2 1.0
97 Kevin James 103 2 1.5
98 Bill Murray 103 2 6.0
99 Denzel Washington 101 2 1.0
100 Nicola Peltz 100 1 2.0

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