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Highest Grossing Stars of 2021 at the Worldwide Box Office


See also: Top Domestic 2021 Stars - Top International 2021 Stars - Top Worldwide 2019 Stars - Top Worldwide 2023 Stars - Top Worldwide 2024 Stars

This list shows the highest grossing stars of 2021 based on the Worldwide box office of the movies they had a leading role in in 2021 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.

Top Worldwide 2020 Stars Top Worldwide 2022 Stars
  1
Samuel L. Jackson photo
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: Endgame ($2,788,912,285 in 2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home ($1,132,107,522 in 2019), Captain Marvel ($1,129,576,094 in 2019), Glass ($246,999,039 in 2019), The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard ($67,387,455 in 2021)

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Tom Holland
Best known as a Lead Ensemble Member Actor based on credits in that role in 9 films.
Top films contributed to this record: Avengers: Endgame ($2,788,912,285 in 2019), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1,907,836,254 in 2021), Spider-Man: Far From Home ($1,132,107,522 in 2019)

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Dwayne Johnson
Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 28 films.
Top films contributed to this record: Jumanji: The Next Level ($795,356,912 in 2019), Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ($760,732,926 in 2019), Jungle Cruise ($210,469,803 in 2021)

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Complete List

Rank Name Star
Score
Movies Average
Billing
1 Samuel L. Jackson 401 5 7.2
2 Tom Holland 297 3 7.0
3 Dwayne Johnson 262 3 1.0
4 Will Smith 252 4 1.5
5 Margot Robbie 241 4 2.0
6 Zhang Yi 225 3 2.3
7 Scarlett Johansson 205 3 4.7
8 Brie Larson 196 2 5.0
9 Robert Downey, Jr. 194 2 1.0
10 Karen Gillan 191 2 6.0
11 Josh Brolin 191 2 8.5
12 Dave Bautista 191 2 13.5
13 Zendaya 188 2 5.5
14 Oscar Isaac 185 2 4.5
15 Gemma Chan 185 2 7.5
16 Paul Rudd 180 2 6.5
17 Salma Hayek 179 3 3.3
18 Idris Elba 176 3 4.0
19 Michelle Rodriguez 176 2 5.0
20 Angelina Jolie 175 2 1.5
21 Chris Evans 172 2 2.0
22 Woody Harrelson 172 3 3.7
23 Eiza González 170 2 7.5
24 Daniel Craig 169 2 1.0
25 Chris Hemsworth 169 2 2.5
26 Ana de Armas 169 2 3.5
27 Emily Blunt 167 2 1.5
28 Lupita Nyong'o 165 2 6.0
29 Adam Driver 164 3 2.3
30 Tony Jaa 161 2 3.0
31 Djimon Hounsou 157 2 6.0
32 Florence Pugh 148 2 2.5
33 Keanu Reeves 146 2 1.0
34 Jason Statham 146 2 1.5
35 Mckenna Grace 143 2 2.0
36 Jamie Lee Curtis 134 2 2.5
37 James McAvoy 131 2 1.5
38 Michael Peña 131 2 1.5
39 Donnie Yen 131 2 1.5
40 Nick Jonas 131 2 5.0
41 Jack Whitehall 130 2 2.5
42 Kevin Hart 130 2 2.5
43 Ryan Reynolds 129 2 1.0
44 Lea Seydoux 125 2 5.0
45 Liam Neeson 123 3 1.7
46 Emma Stone 122 2 2.0
47 Brad Pitt 120 2 1.5
48 Ed Skrein 120 2 3.0
49 Patrick Wilson 119 2 1.5
50 Timothée Chalamet 119 2 5.0
51 Lei Jiayin 116 2 1.0
52 Lance Reddick 116 2 5.5
53 Ben Whishaw 115 2 7.0
54 Finn Wolfhard 112 2 2.0
55 Lakeith Lee Stanfield 112 2 5.0
56 Anya Taylor-Joy 111 2 1.0
57 Eliza Scanlen 111 2 6.5
58 Colin Farrell 104 2 2.0
59 Keri Russell 103 2 6.5
60 Naomi Scott 102 2 2.0
61 Gerard Butler 101 2 1.0
62 Yu Hewei 101 2 1.5
63 Mark Ruffalo 100 1 3.0
64 Jeremy Renner 100 1 6.0
65 Don Cheadle 100 1 7.0
66 Danai Gurira 100 1 11.0
67 Benedict Wong 100 1 14.0
68 Jon Favreau 100 1 15.0
69 Gwyneth Paltrow 100 1 16.0
70 Evangeline Lilly 100 1 17.0
71 Benedict Cumberbatch 100 1 18.0
72 Chris Pratt 100 1 20.0
73 Sebastian Stan 100 1 22.0
74 Terry Notary 100 1 23.0
75 Anthony Mackie 100 1 24.0
76 Tom Hiddleston 100 1 25.0
77 Letitia Wright 100 1 26.0
78 Pom Klementieff 100 1 28.0
79 Paul Bettany 100 1 29.0
80 Elizabeth Olsen 100 1 30.0
81 Zoe Saldana 100 1 31.0
82 Chadwick Boseman 100 1 32.0
83 Ou Hao 99 1 1.0
84 Jiang Wu 99 1 2.0
85 Qianyuan Wang 99 1 4.0
86 Du Chun 99 1 5.0
87 Li Chen 99 1 6.0
88 Ewan McGregor 98 2 4.5
89 Martin Lawrence 97 1 2.0
90 Naomie Harris 97 1 3.0
91 Rami Malek 97 1 6.0
92 Jake Gyllenhaal 97 1 7.0
93 John David Washington 96 1 1.0
94 Vin Diesel 96 1 1.0
95 Robert Pattinson 96 1 2.0
96 Ben Mendelsohn 96 1 3.0
97 Tyrese Gibson 96 1 3.0
98 Elizabeth Debicki 96 1 3.0
99 Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges 96 1 4.0
100 Michael Caine 96 1 4.0

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

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

Tom Holland: Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Dwayne Johnson: By English: Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons