Ranking The World's 10 Highest-Paid Actresses From Worst To Best

7. Reese Witherspoon ($15 Million)

Rank On List: 8 Reese Witherspoon was once lauded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, but it seems fair to say that her career slumped somewhat in the aftermath of her Oscar win for Walk the Line in a performance that she's yet to beat. That doesn't mean that she isn't capable of near-unrivalled charisma whenever the right role comes her way, though. There have been lots of terrible films since Walk the Line, many of which have been forgotten: bores such as Just Like Heaven, Water for Elephants and How Do You Know, and unforgivable travesties in movies such as Four Christmases and This Means War. The actress's most recent hit was the critically-acclaimed Wild, though it makes little sense how Witherspoon has cemented herself as the 8th highest-paid actress in the world based on that fairly modest movie alone. Consider, however, that Witherspoon likes to play producer, too, and she just so happened to be one on a little film called Gone Girl, which raked in $386 million. Acting and producing: now there's a way to make big money.