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Top Worldwide Leading Stars for Sony Pictures Classics Movies
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This chart contains the top 100 stars based on the cumulative worldwide box office of all the Sony Pictures Classics 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
Zhang Ziyi
| Best known as a Leading Actress based on credits in that role in 9 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ($213,966,221 in 2000), House of Flying Daggers ($92,863,945 in 2004), 2046 ($19,278,598 in 2004) |
2
Chow Yun-Fat
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 11 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ($213,966,221 in 2000), Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia ($76,904,429 in 2006) |
3
Penélope Cruz
| Best known as a Leading Actress based on credits in that role in 17 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Volver ($87,226,613 in 2006), To Rome with Love ($74,290,305 in 2012), Dolor y gloria ($39,790,164 in 2019), Madres paralelas ($11,217,056 in 2021) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhang Ziyi | $326,108,764 | 3 | $108,702,921 |
| 2 | Chow Yun-Fat | $290,870,650 | 2 | $145,435,325 |
| 3 | Penélope Cruz | $212,524,138 | 4 | $53,131,035 |
| 4 | Owen Wilson | $162,051,975 | 1 | $162,051,975 |
| 5 | Antonio Banderas | $123,662,347 | 4 | $30,915,587 |
| 6 | Cate Blanchett | $109,755,541 | 2 | $54,877,771 |
| 7 | Anthony Hopkins | $104,678,219 | 4 | $26,169,555 |
| 8 | Gong Li | $99,077,120 | 4 | $24,769,280 |
| 9 | Julianne Moore | $87,297,819 | 7 | $12,471,117 |
| 10 | Greta Gerwig | $82,705,930 | 3 | $27,568,643 |
| 11 | Christopher Plummer | $80,803,988 | 3 | $26,934,663 |
| 12 | Daniel Brühl | $79,384,533 | 1 | $79,384,533 |
| 13 | Katrin Sass | $79,384,533 | 1 | $79,384,533 |
| 14 | Chulpan Khamatova | $79,384,533 | 1 | $79,384,533 |
| 15 | Elliot Page | $74,290,305 | 1 | $74,290,305 |
| 16 | Alec Baldwin | $74,290,305 | 1 | $74,290,305 |
| 17 | Judy Davis | $74,290,305 | 1 | $74,290,305 |
| 18 | Roberto Benigni | $74,290,305 | 1 | $74,290,305 |
| 19 | Woody Allen | $74,290,305 | 1 | $74,290,305 |
| 20 | Jesse Eisenberg | $74,290,305 | 1 | $74,290,305 |
| 21 | Thomas Kretschmann | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 22 | Oleg Volku | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 23 | Mariya Smolnikova | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 24 | Sergey Bondarchuk | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 25 | Yanina Studilina | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 26 | Dmitry Lisenkov | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 27 | Petr Fedorov | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 28 | Andrey Smolyakov | $68,707,119 | 1 | $68,707,119 |
| 29 | Cecilia Roth | $67,864,530 | 1 | $67,864,530 |
| 30 | Ricardo Darin | $67,521,273 | 2 | $33,760,637 |
| 31 | John C. Reilly | $67,174,828 | 2 | $33,587,414 |
| 32 | Leonardo Sbaraglia | $66,783,718 | 2 | $33,391,859 |
| 33 | Jude Law | $66,565,498 | 2 | $33,282,749 |
| 34 | Yordanos Shiferaw | $65,233,793 | 1 | $65,233,793 |
| 35 | Zain Al Rafeea | $65,233,793 | 1 | $65,233,793 |
| 36 | Olivia Colman | $64,358,623 | 3 | $21,452,874 |
| 37 | Colin Farrell | $64,352,607 | 1 | $64,352,607 |
| 38 | Heath Ledger | $64,352,607 | 1 | $64,352,607 |
| 39 | Andrew Garfield | $64,352,607 | 1 | $64,352,607 |
| 40 | Verne Troyer | $64,352,607 | 1 | $64,352,607 |
| 41 | Tom Waits | $64,352,607 | 1 | $64,352,607 |
| 42 | Johnny Depp | $64,352,607 | 1 | $64,352,607 |
| 43 | Lily Cole | $64,352,607 | 1 | $64,352,607 |
| 44 | Gael Garcia Bernal | $57,565,591 | 3 | $19,188,530 |
| 45 | Colin Firth | $56,092,932 | 3 | $18,697,644 |
| 46 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | $55,455,488 | 3 | $18,485,163 |
| 47 | Fernanda Montenegro | $52,504,452 | 2 | $26,252,226 |
| 48 | Timothy Spall | $50,995,427 | 2 | $25,497,714 |
| 49 | Audrey Tautou | $50,813,834 | 1 | $50,813,834 |
| 50 | Maggie Smith | $50,292,218 | 2 | $25,146,109 |
| 51 | Stephen Chow | $47,300,771 | 1 | $47,300,771 |
| 52 | Xu Jiao | $47,300,771 | 1 | $47,300,771 |
| 53 | Lambert Wilson | $46,263,525 | 1 | $46,263,525 |
| 54 | Michael Lonsdale | $46,263,525 | 1 | $46,263,525 |
| 55 | Naomi Watts | $45,072,927 | 2 | $22,536,464 |
| 56 | Armie Hammer | $43,286,981 | 2 | $21,643,491 |
| 57 | Steve Coogan | $42,914,570 | 3 | $14,304,857 |
| 58 | Alex Jennings | $42,320,503 | 1 | $42,320,503 |
| 59 | Timothée Chalamet | $41,561,140 | 1 | $41,561,140 |
| 60 | Soledad Villamil | $40,527,719 | 1 | $40,527,719 |
| 61 | Pablo Rago | $40,527,719 | 1 | $40,527,719 |
| 62 | Guillermo Francella | $40,527,719 | 1 | $40,527,719 |
| 63 | Miles Teller | $39,804,243 | 1 | $39,804,243 |
| 64 | Julieta Serrano | $39,790,164 | 1 | $39,790,164 |
| 65 | Asier Etxeandia | $39,790,164 | 1 | $39,790,164 |
| 66 | Nora Navas | $39,790,164 | 1 | $39,790,164 |
| 67 | Freida Pinto | $38,535,748 | 1 | $38,535,748 |
| 68 | Lucy Punch | $38,535,748 | 1 | $38,535,748 |
| 69 | Josh Brolin | $38,535,748 | 1 | $38,535,748 |
| 70 | Gemma Jones | $38,535,748 | 1 | $38,535,748 |
| 71 | Elena Anaya | $38,156,027 | 1 | $38,156,027 |
| 72 | Jodie Foster | $38,112,154 | 2 | $19,056,077 |
| 73 | Kate Winslet | $38,112,154 | 1 | $38,112,154 |
| 74 | Christoph Waltz | $38,112,154 | 1 | $38,112,154 |
| 75 | Emmanuelle Riva | $36,787,044 | 1 | $36,787,044 |
| 76 | Selton Mello | $35,498,294 | 1 | $35,498,294 |
| 77 | Fernanda Torres | $35,498,294 | 1 | $35,498,294 |
| 78 | Evan Rachel Wood | $35,106,706 | 1 | $35,106,706 |
| 79 | Larry David | $35,106,706 | 1 | $35,106,706 |
| 80 | Jim Broadbent | $34,334,936 | 2 | $17,167,468 |
| 81 | François Bégaudeau | $34,114,067 | 1 | $34,114,067 |
| 82 | Helen Mirren | $33,669,861 | 2 | $16,834,931 |
| 83 | Emma Stone | $33,518,508 | 1 | $33,518,508 |
| 84 | Harry Shearer | $31,279,211 | 1 | $31,279,211 |
| 85 | Catherine Deneuve | $30,640,724 | 2 | $15,320,362 |
| 86 | Ethan Hawke | $30,622,342 | 3 | $10,207,447 |
| 87 | Tilda Swinton | $30,581,611 | 4 | $7,645,403 |
| 88 | Peter Sarsgaard | $29,652,736 | 1 | $29,652,736 |
| 89 | Carey Mulligan | $29,652,736 | 1 | $29,652,736 |
| 90 | Marion Cotillard | $29,393,634 | 1 | $29,393,634 |
| 91 | Matthias Schoenaerts | $29,393,634 | 1 | $29,393,634 |
| 92 | Joaquin Phoenix | $29,083,597 | 1 | $29,083,597 |
| 93 | Robert Redford | $27,930,340 | 2 | $13,965,170 |
| 94 | Rita Cortese | $26,993,554 | 1 | $26,993,554 |
| 95 | Oscar Martinez | $26,993,554 | 1 | $26,993,554 |
| 96 | Julieta Zylberberg | $26,993,554 | 1 | $26,993,554 |
| 97 | Dario Grandinetti | $26,993,554 | 1 | $26,993,554 |
| 98 | Erica Rivas | $26,993,554 | 1 | $26,993,554 |
| 99 | Don Cheadle | $26,733,323 | 2 | $13,366,662 |
| 100 | Vanessa Redgrave | $26,354,917 | 1 | $26,354,917 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
Image attributions
Penélope Cruz: By TabercilUploaded by MyCanon (Penélope Cruz) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
