Highest salary - debut starring role
- Who
- Dwayne Johnson
- What
- 5500000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- United States
- When
- 2002
Billed as Dwayne Johnson, WWF star The Rock (USA, b. 2 May 1972) was paid US$5.5 million (then £3.7 million) for playing the title role in The Scorpion King (USA 2002).
Having appeared in a number of WWF vidoes, he had previously taken fifth billing in The Mummy Returns (US 2001), playing the same character.