According to the Forbes Celebrity 100, Professional wrestler turned Hollywood blockbuster mainstay, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, was officially declared the world’s highest paid actor.
Johnson, who has garnered quite a tally of top-grossing films in recent years, has brought in a total of $64.5m (£49m) earnings in the 15 years since his silver screen debut in The Mummy Returns. He is ranked 19th on Forbes’ coveted list, on which he first appeared in 2012. “Receiving news like this will always serve as my anchoring reminder to continue to work even harder,” the Central Intelligence actor said in his announcement on Instagram. “We not only want to ‘embrace the grind’, but take the grind to new levels.”
His drive, he described, is akin to a "wolf" scratching at the door. "[The wolf is] scratchin' cause he's hungry and never satisfied."
Johnson, 44, has starred in seven films that have grossed more than $100m since he first appeared in the fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious saga in 2011.
The news of Johnson’s global top-earning status comes days before the premiere of the second season of the HBO series Ballers, produced by Seven Bucks Productions, the production company he founded with partner and ex-wife Dany Garcia.
Seven Bucks is named for a pivotal moment in Johnson’s biography when, in 1995, he only had $7 in his pocket after his stint in the Canadian Football League ended.
“I looked in my pocket, and I had seven bucks,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “Wow. Seven bucks to my name.”
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