Forbes compiled a (perhaps inexact) list of the highest paid women in Hollywood, and oh my gosh it's bleak! Oh my gosh! Specifically, the list highlights actresses who earned the most money from May, 2010 to May, 2011, which means plenty of tween starlets and longtime, fast-staling breadwinners make the grade. Gawk with us.
1. Angelina Jolie, $30 million
1. Sarah Jessica Parker, $30 million
3. Jennifer Aniston, $28 million
3. Reese Witherspoon, $28 million
5. Julia Roberts, $20 million
5. Kristen Stewart, $20 million
7. Katherine Heigl, $19 million
8. Cameron Diaz, $18 million
9. Sandra Bullock, $15 million
10. Meryl Streep, $10 million
First, the good news: You'll be delighted (or shocked) to learn that half of these women are Oscar-winners. Besides Streep, they're not exactly the worthiest Oscar winners ever -- with Bullock in particular giving the softest Best Actress performance of the past 50 years -- but they're more respectable than most. Far as I'm concerned, Reese Witherspoon deserves every bit of her paychecks, though she should keep depositing them in Tracy Flick and Vanessa Lutz's saving accounts.
And now, the rancor: Oh, Sarah Jessica Parker. You were once a hard-busking actress punching through the '90s with so-so roles and grade-A defiance, and now you are... a clotheshanger in a film series that ruins all the good of its HBO beginnings. Oh, you. Oh, us. Cameron Diaz, your definitive film is still Charlie's Angels, which is a misfortune that speaks for itself. So, boo. As far as omissions on the list go, the untouchable Helen Mirren worked her ass off last year, and where is she? Glowering in the $5 mil range with Tom Felton and the surlier Michalka? Plenty of you Black Swan enablers will wonder why Natalie Portman isn't here, and I will allow you that delusion. I'm sad not to see Marion Cotillard either, but I'm mostly holding out hope for Jennifer Lawrence and Mia Wasikowska to crack the list in coming years.
So, who's missing? Who's not? And who's worried?
ยท Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actresses [Forbes]