This Year's Top-Grossing Actor Is...

Jennifer Lawrence, thanks to 'Hunger Games,' 'X-Men'

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 27, 2014 5:23 PM CST

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This Year's Top-Grossing Actor Is... — Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Monday, Nov. 17, 2014 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

If you headed to the movies to see the latest Hunger Games or X-Men flicks, you witnessed the year's biggest global box-office star in action. Films featuring Jennifer Lawrence, who played Katniss in Mockingjay and Mystique in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, brought in $1.8 billion, putting her at the top of Forbes' list of the actors who did the best at this year's box office. Among the runners-up:

Chris Pratt starred in Guardians of the Galaxy and The Lego Movie, making him a $1.2 billion actor.
Scarlett Johansson's films, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Lucy, and Under the Skin, brought in $1.18 billion.

Mark Wahlberg was at the center of Transformers: Age of Extinction, and he boasts a $1 billion year at the box office.
Chris Evans can also thank Captain America, along with Snowpiercer; he had an $801 million 2014.
Emma Stone's films, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight, managed $764 million.

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