Vin Diesel named 2017’s top grossing actor
The global success of The Fate Of The Furious helped the American top Forbes’ annual list.
Vin Diesel has beaten his Fast And Furious co-star Dwayne Johnson to be named this year’s top grossing actor.
The action star’s latest addition to the xXx franchise, xXx: Return Of Xander Cage, topped up the 1.2 billion dollars (£897 million) that The Fate Of The Furious raked in worldwide to see his films make 1.6 billion dollars (£1.2 billion) combined in 2017, according to Forbes.
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot came in third after her films, also including Justice League, made 1.4 billion dollars (£1.05 billion) globally.
Britons are well represented in the annual list, with Harry Potter favourite Emma Watson stepping out of Hermione’s shadow to star as Belle in Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty And The Beast – the year’s highest grossing film so far with global takings of 1.26 billion dollars (£942 million).
The Last Jedi’s takings of nearly 800 million dollars (£597 million) in its first two weeks helped Boyega, who also starred in smaller movies Circle and Detroit, place 10th.
Tom Holland made it to seventh place with global earnings of 888 million dollars (£664 million) mostly bolstered by his revival of a comic book hero in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Forbes calculated the ranking by adding up global ticket sales of top actors’ films using data from Box Office Mojo, and animated movies with voiceovers or actors in minor roles were excluded.
