10. Halle Berry $10m
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Halle Berry Highest Paid Actresses in Hollywood
New mother and X-Men star
Halle Berry became the first (and only, so far) African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress when she scooped the award for Monster\'s Ball in 2002. The former beauty queen has been a Bond Girl in Die Another Day, and a superhero twice; Storm in the X-Men series and Catwoman (a flop which earned her a Razzie for Worst Actresss). 2009 sees 41-year-old Halle starring in Frankie And Alice, a film about a woman struggling with multiple personality disorder.
9. Jodie Foster $10- $12m
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Jodie Foster highest paid actresses
At the age of 14,
Jodie Foster played a child prostitute in the 1976 Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver, which also starred Robert De Niro - Jodie was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1998 for her potrayal of a rape victim in The Accused. She\'s probably most famous for playing FBI trainee Clarice Starling opposite Sir Antony Hopkins in The Silence Of The Lambs in 1991. Last year, 45-year-old Jodie caused a stir when she played a vigilante in The Brave One. She\'s also one of the few openly gay women in Hollywood, although she didn\'t publicly speak about it until December 2007, when she thanked her (
now ex) partner in an awards speech.
8. Drew Barrymore $10-$12m
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Drew Barrymore highest paid actresses
Charlie\'s Angels star
Drew Barrymore was just six years old when she appeared in Steven Spielberg\'s sci-fi fantasy E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. She endured a turbulent childhood, and was admitted to rehab for drugs and alcohol when she was only 13. Now 33, Drew\'s one of Hollywood\'s heavy hitters, with over 30 box office hits in her portfolio. In 2009 she directs and stars in roller derby comedy Whip It!, also starring
Ellen Page
7. Julia Roberts $10 - $15m
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Julia Roberts highest paid actresses
Former highest paid actress title holder
Julia Roberts pioneered the way for women to earn as much as their male counterparts in Hollywood. Julia scored her first big hit at a tender 19 years of age, when she played a prostitute in the 1990 romcom
Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere - a box office smash that\'s still a girlie favourite today. The 40-year-old
mother of three now boasts over 40 films under her belt, and an Oscar for her potrayal of legal assistant and struggling single mother Erin Brokovich. 2009 sees Julia starring alongside Clive Owen in the thriller Duplicity.
6. Sandra Bullock $10-$15
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Sandra Bullock highest paid actresses
In the 1990s, Speed star
Sandra Bullock battled Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts for the title of Queen Of Romantic Comedy - she made 22 films in that decade including romcoms While You Were Sleeping, Practical Magic, Hope Floats and Forces Of Nature. In 2000 she starred in the box office smash Miss Congeniality, the story of a frumpy FBI agent turned beauty pageant winner. 2009 sees her starring alongside Definitely Maybe star
Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal - 44-year-old Sandra plays a pushy boss who forces her employee to marry him so she won\'t be deported.
5. Renee Zellweger $10 - $15m
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Renee Zellweger highest paid actresses
Another not-so-dumb blonde, Oscar winner
Renee Zellweger is a woman of considerable talent. She held her own opposite Hollywood A-lister
Tom Cruise in her breakout role in Jerry Maguire back in 1996, delivering the infamous line "You had me at \'hello\'". In 2002 she proved that she could sing and dance up a storm in Chicago and the following year her portrayal of Ruby Thewes in Cold Mountain won her an Oscar, but she\'ll always be Bridget Jones to us!
4. Nicole Kidman $10 - $15m
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Nicole Kidman highest paid actresses in Hollywood
New mum Nicole Kidman topped the list of highest earning actresses in 2006, but has to make do with the No.4 spot these days.
Ms Kidman only really started to show how very talented and versatile she is as an actor after her marriage to Hollywood heavyweight
Tom Cruise ended in 2001, and has enjoyed a meteoric career rise over the past seven years. Her portrayal of novelist Virginia Wolf in The Hours won her an Oscar and sealed her A-list status. Look out for her and X-Men star
Hugh Jackman in the 2009 movie Australia - an epic movie focusing on Nicole\'s homeland in the \'30s, directed by Baz Luhrmann.
3. Cameron Diaz $15m
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Cameron Diaz highest paid actresses in Hollywood
35-year-old
Cameron Diaz started her career as a model, but shot to fame in 1994 when she was cast as Hollywood comedian Jim Carrey\'s leading lady in the slapstick comedy The Mask. Since then she\'s played opposite
Tom Cruise, Daniel Day Lewis and an ogre - Mike Myer\'s Shrek, that is! The fourth installment of the Dreamworks animated series, Shrek Goes Fourth is scheduled for 2010.
2. Angelina Jolie $15 - $20m
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Angelina Jolie Highest Paid Actresses in Hollywood
If juggling career and family were an Olympic sport, Hollywood star
Angelina Jolie would be a gold medalist! Her brood with megastar
Brad Pitt expanded to six children when she gave birth to twins Vivienne and Knox on 12 July 2008, but even with such a large family, Angelina\'s never let go on the reigns of her A-list career. She starred alongside Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted in 1999 and stole the movie - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider followed and Ms Jolie became an unstoppable force. Coming up - The Changeling, directed by Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood and The
Mercenary: Love And Honor, the story of Russia\'s empress Catherine The Great.
1. Reese Witherspoon $15 - $20m
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Reese Witherspoon highest paid actress in Hollywood
Ironically, it was playing a dippy blonde with a big heart in the romantic comedy Legally Blonde in 2001 that catapulted Reese Witherspoon onto the Hollywood A-list. But much like her character in that movie, there\'s more to 32-year-old Reese than her bubbly blonde persona. The southern belle and mother of two has a head for business, running her own film company Type A Films, and produces films as well as acting in them. Although the political thriller Rendition didn\'t do well at the box office last year, Reese did find romance with co-star Jake Gyllenhaal and the couple now live in London. Look out for Reese and Vince Vaughn in Four Christmases at the end of this year, a romcom which sees a couple juggling their time between divorced parents.
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