Mark Wahlberg, $68 million

Mark Wahlberg takes the cake for the highest paid actor of 2017, bringing in a whopping $68 million last year. Wahlberg starred in a number of large-scale movies throughout 2017, including Patriots Day, oil spill biopic Deepwater Horizon and Transformers: The Last Knight. While these movies did not wind up being major box office successes as planned, being the big actor he is, Wahlberg receives upfront compensation, meaning he gets paid the big bucks whatever the outcome of a movie.