Box Office Star Records > International > Creative Types > International Leading Historical Fiction Stars
Top International Leading Stars for Historical Fiction Movies
See also: Domestic Leading Historical Fiction Stars - International Leading Contemporary Fiction Stars - International Leading Science Fiction Stars - International Leading Kids Fiction Stars - International Leading Super Hero Stars - International Leading Fantasy Stars - International Leading Dramatization Stars - International Leading Factual Stars - Worldwide Leading Historical Fiction Stars
This chart contains the top 100 stars based on the cumulative international box office of all the Historical Fiction 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
Johnny Depp
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 43 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($804,642,000 in 2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($651,576,067 in 2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($642,863,913 in 2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ($622,302,918 in 2017), Murder on the Orient Express ($248,940,604 in 2017), The Lone Ranger ($170,700,000 in 2013), Sleepy Hollow ($106,000,000 in 1999), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ($100,431,771 in 2007), Chocolat ($81,190,583 in 2000), Finding Neverland ($63,359,502 in 2004) |
2
Leonardo DiCaprio
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 23 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Titanic ($1,548,588,773 in 1997), Django Unchained ($287,036,132 in 2012), The Great Gatsby ($208,657,314 in 2013), Shutter Island ($171,448,848 in 2010), Blood Diamond ($114,000,000 in 2006), Gangs of New York ($105,394,121 in 2002), Killers of the Flower Moon ($88,397,430 in 2023), Revolutionary Road ($56,653,480 in 2008), The Man in the Iron Mask ($0 in 1998), This Boy's Life ($0 in 1993) |
3
Geoffrey Rush
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 15 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($804,642,000 in 2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($651,576,067 in 2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ($622,302,918 in 2017), The Book Thief ($54,598,230 in 2013), The Warrior's Way ($2,847,985 in 2010), The Eye of the Storm ($2,143,322 in 2012) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | International Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Depp | $3,544,006,975 | 17 | $208,470,999 |
| 2 | Leonardo DiCaprio | $2,580,176,098 | 10 | $258,017,610 |
| 3 | Geoffrey Rush | $2,138,110,522 | 6 | $356,351,754 |
| 4 | Orlando Bloom | $1,935,069,968 | 5 | $387,013,994 |
| 5 | Kate Winslet | $1,700,029,213 | 8 | $212,503,652 |
| 6 | Keira Knightley | $1,678,002,463 | 9 | $186,444,718 |
| 7 | Harrison Ford | $1,295,991,541 | 9 | $143,999,060 |
| 8 | Russell Crowe | $1,282,985,645 | 10 | $128,298,565 |
| 9 | Brad Pitt | $1,207,276,300 | 12 | $100,606,358 |
| 10 | Penélope Cruz | $1,093,483,000 | 4 | $273,370,750 |
| 11 | Jude Law | $1,047,724,583 | 11 | $95,247,689 |
| 12 | Tom Hanks | $1,025,830,088 | 13 | $78,910,007 |
| 13 | Cate Blanchett | $1,025,476,702 | 10 | $102,547,670 |
| 14 | Willem Dafoe | $864,452,130 | 16 | $54,028,258 |
| 15 | Matt Damon | $845,190,541 | 11 | $76,835,504 |
| 16 | Liu Haoran | $836,378,219 | 2 | $418,189,110 |
| 17 | Ian McShane | $804,642,000 | 2 | $402,321,000 |
| 18 | Tom Cruise | $793,882,109 | 6 | $132,313,685 |
| 19 | Javier Bardem | $738,524,976 | 3 | $246,174,992 |
| 20 | Donnie Yen | $707,849,538 | 10 | $70,784,954 |
| 21 | Bill Nighy | $706,502,977 | 6 | $117,750,496 |
| 22 | Hugh Jackman | $682,876,595 | 5 | $136,575,319 |
| 23 | Jack Davenport | $651,576,067 | 1 | $651,576,067 |
| 24 | Robert Downey, Jr. | $643,757,911 | 8 | $80,469,739 |
| 25 | Karen Allen | $629,300,129 | 3 | $209,766,710 |
| 26 | Christoph Waltz | $616,913,633 | 5 | $123,382,727 |
| 27 | Shia LaBeouf | $612,545,047 | 5 | $122,509,009 |
| 28 | Nicole Kidman | $594,919,467 | 13 | $45,763,036 |
| 29 | Helena Bonham Carter | $591,321,203 | 13 | $45,486,246 |
| 30 | Shen Teng | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 31 | Yue Yunpeng | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 32 | Jackson Yee | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 33 | Yi Zhang | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 34 | Lei Jiayin | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 35 | Pedro Pascal | $580,316,696 | 4 | $145,079,174 |
| 36 | Diane Kruger | $547,367,348 | 5 | $109,473,470 |
| 37 | Chow Yun-Fat | $540,747,296 | 4 | $135,186,824 |
| 38 | Andy Lau | $539,866,404 | 7 | $77,123,772 |
| 39 | Xuan Huang | $514,527,060 | 2 | $257,263,530 |
| 40 | Rosie O'Donnell | $505,068,792 | 2 | $252,534,396 |
| 41 | Annabelle Wallis | $502,436,494 | 2 | $251,218,247 |
| 42 | Suraj Sharma | $494,323,346 | 1 | $494,323,346 |
| 43 | John Goodman | $491,777,794 | 5 | $98,355,559 |
| 44 | John Rhys-Davies | $486,502,327 | 4 | $121,625,582 |
| 45 | Kevin Costner | $485,088,793 | 7 | $69,298,399 |
| 46 | Ray Winstone | $477,508,315 | 2 | $238,754,158 |
| 47 | Eddie Peng | $467,970,331 | 3 | $155,990,110 |
| 48 | Christian Bale | $462,842,396 | 13 | $35,603,261 |
| 49 | Zhang Ziyi | $456,474,134 | 6 | $76,079,022 |
| 50 | Wang Baoqiang | $454,950,143 | 1 | $454,950,143 |
| 51 | Sean Connery | $446,790,134 | 5 | $89,358,027 |
| 52 | Antonio Banderas | $445,253,844 | 3 | $148,417,948 |
| 53 | Ralph Fiennes | $445,205,012 | 12 | $37,100,418 |
| 54 | Denzel Washington | $435,425,529 | 7 | $62,203,647 |
| 55 | Kenneth Branagh | $432,915,604 | 5 | $86,583,121 |
| 56 | Anthony Hopkins | $430,499,890 | 8 | $53,812,486 |
| 57 | Rachel McAdams | $422,628,573 | 3 | $140,876,191 |
| 58 | Eva Green | $416,839,623 | 6 | $69,473,271 |
| 59 | Ken Watanabe | $415,271,413 | 3 | $138,423,804 |
| 60 | Joel Edgerton | $414,214,866 | 4 | $103,553,717 |
| 61 | Eric Bana | $402,744,666 | 6 | $67,124,111 |
| 62 | Jamie Foxx | $393,675,910 | 3 | $131,225,303 |
| 63 | Mel Gibson | $393,429,489 | 9 | $43,714,388 |
| 64 | Bill Skarsgård | $377,744,821 | 4 | $94,436,205 |
| 65 | Jaeden Lieberher | $375,300,000 | 1 | $375,300,000 |
| 66 | Catherine Zeta-Jones | $371,854,282 | 3 | $123,951,427 |
| 67 | Jet Li | $359,698,471 | 5 | $71,939,694 |
| 68 | Jackie Chan | $357,611,993 | 8 | $44,701,499 |
| 69 | Judi Dench | $355,713,209 | 5 | $71,142,642 |
| 70 | Mads Mikkelsen | $350,024,499 | 6 | $58,337,417 |
| 71 | Noomi Rapace | $349,292,978 | 4 | $87,323,245 |
| 72 | Jared Harris | $348,815,025 | 1 | $348,815,025 |
| 73 | Gerard Butler | $347,878,318 | 3 | $115,959,439 |
| 74 | Koyuki Kato | $345,700,000 | 1 | $345,700,000 |
| 75 | Armie Hammer | $345,458,457 | 7 | $49,351,208 |
| 76 | Kevin Kline | $341,724,458 | 3 | $113,908,153 |
| 77 | Amanda Seyfried | $330,089,904 | 2 | $165,044,952 |
| 78 | Sofia Boutella | $329,852,780 | 1 | $329,852,780 |
| 79 | Adrien Brody | $329,301,061 | 10 | $32,930,106 |
| 80 | Zhang Hanyu | $322,217,695 | 2 | $161,108,848 |
| 81 | Margot Robbie | $318,825,195 | 7 | $45,546,456 |
| 82 | Richard Gere | $316,660,960 | 7 | $45,237,280 |
| 83 | Anne Hathaway | $289,890,296 | 5 | $57,978,059 |
| 84 | John Travolta | $289,609,559 | 5 | $57,921,912 |
| 85 | Rodrigo Santoro | $289,459,171 | 2 | $144,729,586 |
| 86 | Junkai Wang | $289,329,747 | 1 | $289,329,747 |
| 87 | Jian Tian | $289,329,747 | 1 | $289,329,747 |
| 88 | Zheng Kai | $289,329,747 | 1 | $289,329,747 |
| 89 | Lu Han | $289,329,747 | 1 | $289,329,747 |
| 90 | Cheney Chen | $289,329,747 | 1 | $289,329,747 |
| 91 | Kenny Lin | $289,329,747 | 1 | $289,329,747 |
| 92 | Connie Nielsen | $289,022,963 | 4 | $72,255,741 |
| 93 | Emily Blunt | $288,880,323 | 4 | $72,220,081 |
| 94 | Paul Mescal | $287,942,395 | 3 | $95,980,798 |
| 95 | Joseph Quinn | $287,942,395 | 1 | $287,942,395 |
| 96 | Fred Hechinger | $287,942,395 | 1 | $287,942,395 |
| 97 | Glenn Close | $287,693,978 | 5 | $57,538,796 |
| 98 | Sacha Baron Cohen | $286,032,312 | 2 | $143,016,156 |
| 99 | Eddie Redmayne | $286,032,312 | 1 | $286,032,312 |
| 100 | Edward Norton | $282,956,695 | 6 | $47,159,449 |
The International Market is defined as all territories excluding the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
Image attributions
Johnny Depp: By Arnold WellsUploaded by MyCanon (Johnny Depp) [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Leonardo DiCaprio: By Siebbi (Leonardo DiCaprio) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
