Dwayne Johnson is Hollywood’s highest-paid actor
Forbes recently listed their highest-paid actors in Hollywood from June 2015 to June of this year. Dwayne Johnson was No. 1 on the money list.
After gaining worldwide popularity and notoriety as The Rock in World Wrestling Entertainment, Dwayne Johnson has become an even bigger cultural icon with his acting career.
According to Forbes’ list of athletes and entertainment, Johnson topped the list for actors with $64.5 million made from June 2015 to June of this past year.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the world's highest paid actor: https://t.co/k7j9aSIntj #Celeb100 pic.twitter.com/4kbIDbPP5K
— Forbes (@Forbes) July 18, 2016
That’s a lot of money.
After it was announced that Rock topped Forbes’ list, Johnson shared with the Twitterverse the proper way to spend it all.
https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/754384736743718913
When you have more money than you know what to do with, you go to Waffle House. It’s that simple.
In terms of the full Forbes list itself of the highest-paid people in the world for the last year, Johnson ranked the highest of every actor and actress and came in at 19th overall on the full list breakdown.
During the time span for this list, Johnson had just one film released and that was Central Intelligence with Kevin Hart (who came in at No. 6 on Forbes’ list), where Johnson plays an overweight high school kid-turned-CIA agent in the film.
However, during that span, Johnson was announced as the voice role of Maui in the new animated film, Moana, appeared at WWE’s WrestleMania 32 in front of 100,000 people at AT&T Stadium and confirmed that he’ll once again take the role of Hobbs in Fast 8 , which is set to hit theaters in 2017.
Throw in the success of HBO’s Ballers, a Baywatch movie and a Jumanji remake and The Great One’s revenue stream never seems to stop.
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