Box Office Star Records > Worldwide > Per Year Acting > Top Worldwide 2021 Stars
Highest Grossing Stars of 2021 at the Worldwide Box Office
See also: Top Domestic 2021 Stars - Top International 2021 Stars - Top Worldwide 2023 Stars - Top Worldwide 2024 Stars - Top Worldwide 2025 Stars
This list shows the highest grossing stars of 2021 based on the Worldwide box office of the movies they had a leading role in in 2021 and the two preceeding years (voice-only roles excluded).
The Star Score in this list represent points assigned to each of the leading stars of top 100 (based on worldwide box office) movies in the current year and two preceding years. For appearing in the number one movie in a year a star gets 100 points, the number two movie 99 points and so on. This rewards actors for appearing in a number of hit films over the course of three years more than starring in just one monster hit over the same time period.
| Top Worldwide 2020 Stars | Top Worldwide 2022 Stars |
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 56 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Avengers: Endgame ($2,717,503,922 in 2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home ($1,132,298,674 in 2019), Captain Marvel ($1,129,576,094 in 2019), Glass ($246,999,039 in 2019), The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard ($67,387,455 in 2021) |
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 8 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Hi, Mom (你好, 李焕英) ($839,098,445 in 2021), Crazy Alien (疯狂的外星人) ($302,561,677 in 2019), Fei Chi Ren Sheng ($255,832,826 in 2019), Wen Nuan De Bao Bao ($132,213,520 in 2020) |
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 5 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: The Eight Hundred (八佰) ($436,779,294 in 2020), Xuan Ya Zhi Shang (悬崖之上) ($177,454,106 in 2021), Pan Deng Zhe ($174,008,804 in 2019), Jin gang chuan ($167,007,608 in 2020) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Star Score |
Movies | Average Billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samuel L. Jackson | 401 | 5 | 7.2 |
| 2 | Shen Teng | 326 | 4 | 2.3 |
| 3 | Zhang Yi | 313 | 4 | 2.0 |
| 4 | Tom Holland | 297 | 3 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Dwayne Johnson | 262 | 3 | 1.0 |
| 6 | Will Smith | 261 | 4 | 1.5 |
| 7 | Margot Robbie | 244 | 4 | 2.0 |
| 8 | Wu Jing | 235 | 3 | 1.3 |
| 9 | Donnie Yen | 213 | 3 | 1.3 |
| 10 | Zhang Hanyu | 208 | 3 | 1.7 |
| 11 | Scarlett Johansson | 206 | 3 | 4.7 |
| 12 | Chao Deng | 205 | 3 | 2.7 |
| 13 | Andy Lau | 198 | 3 | 1.0 |
| 14 | Brie Larson | 196 | 2 | 5.0 |
| 15 | Robert Downey, Jr. | 194 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 16 | Xiaoming Huang | 194 | 3 | 2.0 |
| 17 | Karen Gillan | 191 | 2 | 6.0 |
| 18 | Josh Brolin | 191 | 2 | 8.5 |
| 19 | Dave Bautista | 191 | 2 | 13.5 |
| 20 | Zendaya | 188 | 2 | 5.5 |
| 21 | Oscar Isaac | 185 | 2 | 4.5 |
| 22 | Gemma Chan | 185 | 2 | 7.5 |
| 23 | Paul Rudd | 179 | 2 | 6.5 |
| 24 | Qianyuan Wang | 178 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 25 | Salma Hayek | 178 | 3 | 3.3 |
| 26 | Louis Koo | 177 | 5 | 1.4 |
| 27 | Idris Elba | 177 | 3 | 4.0 |
| 28 | Michelle Rodriguez | 177 | 2 | 5.0 |
| 29 | Angelina Jolie | 175 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 30 | Chris Evans | 173 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 31 | Woody Harrelson | 172 | 3 | 3.7 |
| 32 | Eiza González | 171 | 2 | 7.5 |
| 33 | Daniel Craig | 170 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 34 | Ana de Armas | 170 | 2 | 3.5 |
| 35 | Chris Hemsworth | 169 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 36 | Emily Blunt | 167 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 37 | Jia Ling | 167 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 38 | Adam Driver | 164 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 39 | Lupita Nyong'o | 164 | 2 | 6.0 |
| 40 | Li Qin | 161 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 41 | Tony Jaa | 161 | 2 | 3.0 |
| 42 | Liu Haoran | 158 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 43 | Gong Li | 158 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 44 | Djimon Hounsou | 157 | 2 | 6.0 |
| 45 | Jackson Yee | 155 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 46 | Florence Pugh | 148 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 47 | Keanu Reeves | 146 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 48 | Jason Statham | 145 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 49 | Mckenna Grace | 141 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 50 | Huang Bo | 140 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 51 | Jack Whitehall | 137 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 52 | Peng Yuchang | 135 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 53 | Jamie Lee Curtis | 135 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 54 | Michael Peña | 133 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 55 | Zhang Zifeng | 132 | 4 | 2.0 |
| 56 | James McAvoy | 131 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 57 | Dongyu Zhou | 131 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 58 | Nick Jonas | 131 | 2 | 5.0 |
| 59 | Kevin Hart | 130 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 60 | Ryan Reynolds | 129 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 61 | Zhang Ruonan | 129 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 62 | Liam Neeson | 124 | 3 | 1.7 |
| 63 | Lea Seydoux | 124 | 2 | 5.0 |
| 64 | Emma Stone | 122 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 65 | Brad Pitt | 121 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 66 | Ed Skrein | 121 | 2 | 3.0 |
| 67 | Patrick Wilson | 120 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 68 | Timothée Chalamet | 118 | 2 | 5.0 |
| 69 | Lance Reddick | 116 | 2 | 5.5 |
| 70 | Anya Taylor-Joy | 113 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 71 | Lakeith Lee Stanfield | 113 | 2 | 5.0 |
| 72 | Ben Whishaw | 113 | 2 | 7.0 |
| 73 | Finn Wolfhard | 111 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 74 | Eliza Scanlen | 110 | 2 | 6.5 |
| 75 | Zhu Yilong | 109 | 2 | 3.0 |
| 76 | Lei Jiayin | 108 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 77 | Colin Farrell | 105 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 78 | Naomi Scott | 103 | 2 | 2.0 |
| 79 | Keri Russell | 103 | 2 | 6.5 |
| 80 | Yu Hewei | 102 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 81 | Gerard Butler | 101 | 2 | 1.0 |
| 82 | Mark Ruffalo | 100 | 1 | 3.0 |
| 83 | Rami Malek | 100 | 2 | 4.0 |
| 84 | Ewan McGregor | 100 | 2 | 4.5 |
| 85 | Jeremy Renner | 100 | 1 | 6.0 |
| 86 | Don Cheadle | 100 | 1 | 7.0 |
| 87 | Danai Gurira | 100 | 1 | 11.0 |
| 88 | Benedict Wong | 100 | 1 | 14.0 |
| 89 | Jon Favreau | 100 | 1 | 15.0 |
| 90 | Gwyneth Paltrow | 100 | 1 | 16.0 |
| 91 | Evangeline Lilly | 100 | 1 | 17.0 |
| 92 | Benedict Cumberbatch | 100 | 1 | 18.0 |
| 93 | Chris Pratt | 100 | 1 | 20.0 |
| 94 | Sebastian Stan | 100 | 1 | 22.0 |
| 95 | Terry Notary | 100 | 1 | 23.0 |
| 96 | Anthony Mackie | 100 | 1 | 24.0 |
| 97 | Tom Hiddleston | 100 | 1 | 25.0 |
| 98 | Letitia Wright | 100 | 1 | 26.0 |
| 99 | Pom Klementieff | 100 | 1 | 28.0 |
| 100 | Paul Bettany | 100 | 1 | 29.0 |
The Average Billing column contains the average billing position of this cast/crew member for the selected films.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
Image attributions
Samuel L. Jackson: By pinguino k (originally posted to Flickr as samuel l jackson) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
