Meet the highest paid actresses in Hollywood

(Reuters Life!)

Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker, with annual salaries of $ 30 million each, are the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, according to a newly released ranking.

Angelina Jolie topped the list compiled by Forbes.com thanks to the worldwide success of her $ 300 million action movie "Salt" and "The Tourist", also starring Johnny Depp, which sold $ 280 million in tickets around the world.

Much of Sarah Jessica Parker's lavish salary is due to the reruns of her hit TV series "Sex and the City, " which she produced and starred in, and the profits from the second feature film in the series, which generated $ 290 million. dollars.

"People may be surprised to see Sarah Jessica Parker at the top of the rankings, but they may not know that, besides acting, she makes a lot of money from her perfumes and her advertising contracts, " said Forbes.com journalist Dorothy Pomerantz. "In addition, she recently did 'Sex and the City 2' which was profitable."

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon were not far behind in the rankings: each of them took home $ 28 million. "Little Wife" with Jennifer Aniston is the fourth-best-grossing actress movie in the United States.

The top ten actresses with the highest incomes earned a total of $ 218 million between May 2010 and May 2011, according to Forbes.com, who, to compile the list, talked to producers, lawyers, agents and knowledgeable people about Hollywood to estimate how much each actress received.

The highest-paid actress last year, Sandra Bullock, spent 12 months without making films and dropped to ninth place, earning $ 15 million.

(Report by Paula Rogo)