7. Stana Katic – Castle – $12 million
After seven successful seasons, Stana Katic worked the popularity of the TV show Castle into a big payout going into the show’s eighth season. Earning about $12 million is a big increase from what Katic was bringing in for the majority of the show’s run. For seven seasons, Castle averaged about 10 million viewers an episode, but that was cut down by about 40% in the eighth season.
There were rumors that the show was going to get an additional season, but the drop in ratings didn’t help encourage the showrunners to keep it going. While Katic has a couple of smaller film roles in production as we speak, she doesn’t have much on the slate long run, so don’t expect her to appear on this list in 2017.
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