12) Cate Blanchett (Worldwide Gross: $7,473.5 million)

Highest Grossing Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1,119.1 million)

Australian actress Cate Blanchett is one of the most versatile and acclaimed actresses in Hollywood. She has won two Academy Awards, most recently for Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, and in 2005 for her take on Hollywood legend Katherine Hepburn in the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator. Blanchett’s highest grossing film is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1,119.1 million).