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Top Worldwide Leading Stars for Drama Movies
See also: Domestic Leading Drama Stars - International Leading Drama Stars - Worldwide Leading Adventure Stars - Worldwide Leading Action Stars - Worldwide Leading Comedy Stars - Worldwide Leading Thriller/Suspense Stars - Worldwide Leading Horror Stars - Worldwide Leading Romantic Comedy Stars - Worldwide Leading Musical Stars
This chart contains the top 100 stars based on the cumulative worldwide box office of all the Drama movies a star has had a leading role in over their lifetime.
Roles in animated movies and other voice-only roles are included in the calculations in this chart.
1
Leonardo DiCaprio
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 24 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Titanic ($2,223,048,786 in 1997), Catch Me if You Can ($355,612,291 in 2002), The Great Gatsby ($353,497,733 in 2013), The Departed ($289,660,619 in 2006), The Aviator ($208,370,892 in 2004), Gangs of New York ($183,124,621 in 2002), Romeo+Juliet ($147,542,381 in 1996), J. Edgar ($84,606,030 in 2011), Revolutionary Road ($79,604,820 in 2008), The Beach ($39,778,599 in 2000) |
2
Tom Hanks
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 50 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Forrest Gump ($679,835,137 in 1994), Saving Private Ryan ($485,035,085 in 1998), Catch Me if You Can ($355,612,291 in 2002), Apollo 13 ($335,802,271 in 1995), The Green Mile ($290,701,374 in 1999), Sully ($238,524,556 in 2016), Captain Phillips ($220,648,184 in 2013), The Terminal ($218,673,959 in 2004), Philadelphia ($201,324,422 in 1993), Road to Perdition ($183,354,514 in 2002) |
3
Robert Pattinson
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 23 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 ($829,724,737 in 2012), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ($706,101,755 in 2010), The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($687,556,547 in 2009), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 ($682,171,944 in 2011), Twilight ($402,275,769 in 2008), Water for Elephants ($116,809,717 in 2011), Remember Me ($56,506,120 in 2010), Bel Ami ($6,165,119 in 2012), Life ($5,536,354 in 2015), Good Time ($4,137,324 in 2017) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonardo DiCaprio | $3,984,517,944 | 15 | $265,634,530 |
| 2 | Tom Hanks | $3,732,466,278 | 19 | $196,445,594 |
| 3 | Robert Pattinson | $3,497,725,834 | 12 | $291,477,153 |
| 4 | Kristen Stewart | $3,391,505,698 | 19 | $178,500,300 |
| 5 | Taylor Lautner | $3,307,830,752 | 6 | $551,305,125 |
| 6 | Kate Winslet | $2,749,196,131 | 19 | $144,694,533 |
| 7 | Matt Damon | $2,207,330,402 | 18 | $122,629,467 |
| 8 | Shen Teng | $1,843,902,233 | 3 | $614,634,078 |
| 9 | Brad Pitt | $1,819,796,981 | 18 | $101,099,832 |
| 10 | Meryl Streep | $1,449,212,618 | 28 | $51,757,594 |
| 11 | Dakota Johnson | $1,432,406,057 | 11 | $130,218,732 |
| 12 | Bradley Cooper | $1,416,773,419 | 10 | $141,677,342 |
| 13 | Jamie Dornan | $1,375,397,178 | 7 | $196,485,311 |
| 14 | Al Pacino | $1,370,151,555 | 27 | $50,746,354 |
| 15 | Kevin Costner | $1,365,053,039 | 18 | $75,836,280 |
| 16 | Russell Crowe | $1,355,535,139 | 15 | $90,369,009 |
| 17 | Denzel Washington | $1,291,742,682 | 19 | $67,986,457 |
| 18 | Julia Roberts | $1,289,151,296 | 10 | $128,915,130 |
| 19 | Jackson Yee | $1,238,063,015 | 5 | $247,612,603 |
| 20 | Johnny Depp | $1,233,224,267 | 20 | $61,661,213 |
| 21 | Demi Moore | $1,191,874,689 | 12 | $99,322,891 |
| 22 | Sylvester Stallone | $1,161,457,421 | 9 | $129,050,825 |
| 23 | Robert Redford | $1,143,726,715 | 15 | $76,248,448 |
| 24 | Robert De Niro | $1,128,862,159 | 33 | $34,207,944 |
| 25 | George Clooney | $1,119,845,402 | 9 | $124,427,267 |
| 26 | Christian Bale | $1,114,754,141 | 14 | $79,625,296 |
| 27 | Clint Eastwood | $1,054,433,675 | 11 | $95,857,607 |
| 28 | Cillian Murphy | $1,020,413,907 | 8 | $127,551,738 |
| 29 | Jia Ling | $986,435,780 | 2 | $493,217,890 |
| 30 | Cate Blanchett | $984,076,705 | 14 | $70,291,193 |
| 31 | Jack Nicholson | $925,430,541 | 13 | $71,186,965 |
| 32 | Lei Jiayin | $919,195,407 | 2 | $459,597,704 |
| 33 | Nicole Kidman | $892,821,768 | 27 | $33,067,473 |
| 34 | Rami Malek | $889,173,652 | 4 | $222,293,413 |
| 35 | Michelle Pfeiffer | $864,886,776 | 13 | $66,529,752 |
| 36 | Zhang Xiaofei | $839,098,445 | 1 | $839,098,445 |
| 37 | Joel Edgerton | $823,765,273 | 11 | $74,887,752 |
| 38 | Willem Dafoe | $813,617,267 | 24 | $33,900,719 |
| 39 | Patrick Swayze | $806,368,561 | 8 | $100,796,070 |
| 40 | Sandra Bullock | $792,505,245 | 9 | $88,056,138 |
| 41 | Will Smith | $782,733,332 | 10 | $78,273,333 |
| 42 | John Travolta | $782,084,371 | 14 | $55,863,169 |
| 43 | Robin Williams | $781,660,688 | 9 | $86,851,188 |
| 44 | Keira Knightley | $778,299,519 | 15 | $51,886,635 |
| 45 | James Caviezel | $776,794,089 | 7 | $110,970,584 |
| 46 | Mel Gibson | $758,062,597 | 15 | $50,537,506 |
| 47 | Tom Cruise | $754,900,484 | 10 | $75,490,048 |
| 48 | Daniel Day-Lewis | $752,157,777 | 13 | $57,858,291 |
| 49 | Michael B. Jordan | $739,041,550 | 8 | $92,380,194 |
| 50 | Morgan Freeman | $725,874,077 | 14 | $51,848,148 |
| 51 | Helena Bonham Carter | $688,317,474 | 16 | $43,019,842 |
| 52 | Jude Law | $676,362,625 | 12 | $56,363,552 |
| 53 | Richard Dreyfuss | $672,784,548 | 6 | $112,130,758 |
| 54 | Dongyu Zhou | $665,631,883 | 5 | $133,126,377 |
| 55 | Jim Carrey | $664,541,867 | 4 | $166,135,467 |
| 56 | Judi Dench | $659,518,743 | 10 | $65,951,874 |
| 57 | Jennifer Lawrence | $656,827,019 | 10 | $65,682,702 |
| 58 | Josh Gad | $643,806,595 | 5 | $128,761,319 |
| 59 | Diane Lane | $642,757,987 | 12 | $53,563,166 |
| 60 | Tobey Maguire | $639,942,901 | 5 | $127,988,580 |
| 61 | Rachel McAdams | $637,231,706 | 10 | $63,723,171 |
| 62 | Suraj Sharma | $619,310,368 | 1 | $619,310,368 |
| 63 | Matthew McConaughey | $612,186,035 | 11 | $55,653,276 |
| 64 | Nicolas Cage | $605,585,722 | 16 | $37,849,108 |
| 65 | Xu Zheng | $592,943,739 | 4 | $148,235,935 |
| 66 | Richard Gere | $592,457,323 | 19 | $31,181,964 |
| 67 | Kevin Spacey | $584,955,105 | 10 | $58,495,511 |
| 68 | Yue Yunpeng | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 69 | Yi Zhang | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 70 | Jake Gyllenhaal | $580,183,218 | 13 | $44,629,478 |
| 71 | Lady Gaga | $579,148,294 | 2 | $289,574,147 |
| 72 | Annette Bening | $575,854,555 | 13 | $44,296,504 |
| 73 | Sienna Miller | $574,626,909 | 8 | $71,828,364 |
| 74 | Whitney Houston | $573,447,657 | 4 | $143,361,914 |
| 75 | Zhang Hanyu | $569,427,272 | 3 | $189,809,091 |
| 76 | Kristin Scott Thomas | $562,765,370 | 12 | $46,897,114 |
| 77 | Kenneth Branagh | $560,444,874 | 5 | $112,088,975 |
| 78 | Octavia Spencer | $560,398,674 | 4 | $140,099,669 |
| 79 | Dev Patel | $559,956,103 | 4 | $139,989,026 |
| 80 | Kirsten Dunst | $555,216,833 | 9 | $61,690,759 |
| 81 | Susan Sarandon | $547,091,584 | 23 | $23,786,591 |
| 82 | Lily James | $543,185,933 | 4 | $135,796,483 |
| 83 | Liam Neeson | $540,087,732 | 16 | $33,755,483 |
| 84 | Michael Peña | $535,842,293 | 8 | $66,980,287 |
| 85 | Joaquin Phoenix | $531,533,592 | 10 | $53,153,359 |
| 86 | Penélope Cruz | $531,059,688 | 11 | $48,278,153 |
| 87 | Colin Firth | $528,293,572 | 15 | $35,219,571 |
| 88 | Marion Cotillard | $525,061,869 | 10 | $52,506,187 |
| 89 | Chao Deng | $522,573,157 | 4 | $130,643,289 |
| 90 | Dustin Hoffman | $520,799,487 | 14 | $37,199,963 |
| 91 | Geoffrey Rush | $515,153,132 | 8 | $64,394,142 |
| 92 | Xiaoming Huang | $506,322,056 | 4 | $126,580,514 |
| 93 | Ryan Gosling | $505,056,743 | 10 | $50,505,674 |
| 94 | Gina Jin | $504,630,207 | 1 | $504,630,207 |
| 95 | Lay Zhang | $504,630,207 | 1 | $504,630,207 |
| 96 | Amy Adams | $498,228,119 | 8 | $62,278,515 |
| 97 | Edward Burns | $498,055,778 | 5 | $99,611,156 |
| 98 | Paul Newman | $497,521,218 | 15 | $33,168,081 |
| 99 | Carey Mulligan | $489,579,525 | 12 | $40,798,294 |
| 100 | Reese Witherspoon | $489,536,830 | 9 | $54,392,981 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
Image attributions
Leonardo DiCaprio: By Siebbi (Leonardo DiCaprio) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Tom Hanks: By Yeoman 1st Class Donna Lou Morgan [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Pattinson: Georges Biard [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
