Most bankable Hollywood leading actress

According to The-Numbers.com, the most bankable leading actress in Hollywood is currently Emma Watson (UK), whose value to the industry was rated at $10,158,997 (£8,208,340) per movie, as of 1 April 2020.

Watson's most recent theatrical outing was her role as Meg March in Little Women (USA, 2019), which grossed $205,710,796 (£166,212,000) at the worldwide box office. The highest-grossing movie of her career to date has been Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (UK/USA, 2011), which took $1,341,693,157 (£1,084,070,000) worldwide, although running a close second was Beauty and the Beast (USA, 2017), which grossed $1,263,521,126 (£1,020,910,000).

This analysis draws on the Hollywood Creative Graph, which assesses more than 6 million connections between 130,000 creative individuals within Hollywood in terms of box-office grosses and hence the overall value that they added to the movie industry. To quote the website: "In simple terms, if the film business returned to the studio system that existed in the 1950s, this is how much we would pay everyone each year.”