Jolie, Aniston are Hollywood's top-earning actresses

NEW YORK – Angelina Jolie is Hollywood's top earning actress, cyberbanking $27 amateur in the accomplished year to exhausted out her accomplice Brad Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, who raked in $25 million, a Forbes.com abstraction showed on Wednesday.

Most of Jolie's assets came from her allotment of the profits from her activity blur "Wanted," but she was additionally paid a ample upfront sum for her role in "Salt," the abstraction said. Jolie and Pitt accept six children.

Aniston, who was affiliated to Pitt afore he became complex with Jolie, becoming best of her millions from the adventurous ball "Marley and Me" and her accessible blur "The Baster."

"Aniston additionally still earns money from (reruns of TV series) Friends and she gets a nice paycheck shilling for Glaceau's SmartWater," Forbes.com said.

Meryl Streep came in at No. 3 with $24 million, best of which came from her role in "Mamma Mia," while Sarah Jessica Parker was ranked fourth with $23 amateur in balance afterward the cine adaptation of TV alternation "Sex and the City."

Cameron Diaz circuit out the top five, cyberbanking $20 amateur amid June 2008 and June 2009.

Forbes.com said it batten to agents, managers, producers and attorneys to assignment out what actresses were paid upfront for movies they are currently cutting and what pay they ability accept becoming afterwards a cine hit the theaters. Money becoming from aroma or accouterment curve was additionally taken into account.

"As is still archetypal for Hollywood, our actresses becoming decidedly beneath than their macho counterparts," Forbes.com said, pointing out that the top earning macho actor, Harrison Ford, fabricated $65 million.

The abounding account can be apparent at http://www.forbes.com.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, alteration by Vicki Allen)