Scarlett Johansson is the highest-grossing actress ever
Black Widow is making bank.
Scarlett Johansson ranks as the highest-grossing actress according to Box Office Mojo, which notes her films have brought in over $3.3 billion.
She's the first woman to break into the top 10 list of highest-grossing stars. Harrison Ford ($4.8 billion), Samuel L. Jackson ($4.6 billion) and Morgan Freeman ($4.4 billion) nabbed the top three spots.
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Johansson's box office success is largely due to the insanely lucrative Avengers franchise. She plays Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow. She last played the role in Captain America: Civil War, which quickly earned the second-highest box office of 2016, with a cumulative total of $940.9 million.
Johansson also voiced a role in the wildly successful The Jungle Book, which earned a staggering $930 million worldwide.
After Johansson, actresses on the top 50 are sparse. Cameron Diaz settles in at 19, Helena Bonham Carter at 26, Cate Blanchett at 29 and Julia Roberts at 30.
There are only four other women on the list: Elizabeth Banks, Emma Watson, Sandra Bullock and Anne Hathaway.
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Topics Marvel
Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.
