Who Are Fan Bingbing & Deepika Padukone?
The Forbes list of the world’s richest actresses provides a heaven-sent opportunity to slaver over photos of beautiful women and very large sums of money: solemnly recorded figures that can really be no more than intelligent guesswork. This year, Jennifer Lawrence is top of the actress list, with a supposed pre-tax income of $46m. Melissa McCarthy comes in second with a putative $33m and Scarlett Johansson gets bronze with what could plausibly be $25m. But wait. This list features actors who many people will never have heard of: No 5 is Fan Bingbing (left) ($17m) and Deepika Padukone (right) ($10m) is No 10. Such is our Hollywood-centric world, these names may be unfamiliar. But the former is a colossal star of the Chinese film industry, while Padukone enjoys a similiar status in India. Learn more.