The Big Bang Theory? More like The Big Bucks Theory.
Forbes has revealed that the top four best paid TV actors in the world at the moment are the funny nerds from CBS’ The Big Bang Theory. Jim Parsons ($25.5 million) and Johnny Galecki ($24 million) are the two best paid actors, followed closely by their fellow Big Bangers Simon Helberg ($22.5 million) and Kunal Nayyar ($22 million).
Rounding off the top five is Mark Harmon, star of CBS’s NCIS who’s being paid $20 million for his role as star and executive producer on the show.
Kevin Spacey, star of Netflix’s House of Cards is raking in $10.5 million, making him the twelfth best paid “TV” actor in the world at the moment.
The bottom half of the top ten is, in ascending order, Ed O’Neill (Jay from Modern Family), Ray Romano (yes, from Everybody Loves Raymond), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitch from Modern Family), Nathan Fillion from Castle (and the cancelled-too-soon Firefly), and Ty Burrell, the third star from Modern Family in the top ten.
Eric Stonestreet, who plays Cam in Modern Family, just narrowly missed out on the top ten – finishing in eleventh place.
You can read the entire top 15 here at Forbes.
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