8. Dakota Fanning – $4 Million for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, 2009 (Age 15) and Part 2 (Age 18)
Dakota Fanning is probably the busiest child star on this list. She has appeared almost everywhere, and is one of the few child stars that could open movies and draw crowds on her star power. Since theTwilight Saga movies, she’s been a little quiet, but this year at the age of 21 she came back in a big way, earning a reported $58 million in 2015, making her America’s highest paid actress of this year. Not only has she made money acting, but in modelling as well. Her modelling career started in 2009 when she made the cover of various magazines like Elle, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. She first found success as a 5 year old in commercials, and by the age of 6, she guest starred on shows like ER, CSI and ThePractice. She got her first Award at the age of 7 in the movie I am Sam. For the next 4 years she worked beside many A-List Hollywood stars including Tom Cruise in War of The Worlds (2005). By age 12 she was reportedly commanding $4 million a film. Her current net worth as a 22 year-old, not including what she made this year, is $16 million.
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