Just look at Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa McCarthy, and Scarlett Johansson, who have been revealed as the three highest paid actresses of 2016.
But how did Jennifer Lawrence manage to make so much money over the last 12 months?
It turns out that being an actress can be quite a lucrative racket.
Forbes have confirmed that for the second year in a row Jennifer Lawrence pocketed the most amount of cash of anyone else in her field, and it turns out that she took home several millions dollars more than her closest rivals.