Scarlett Johansson tops Forbes' best-paid actresses list

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American actress Scarlett Johansson garnered the top place on Forbes' 2018 list of the world's highest-paid actresses, which was released Thursday.

Johansson, 33, raked in $ 40.5 million in pre-tax earnings from June 1, 2017 to June 1, 2018 thanks to her role as Black Widow in this year's hit movie Avengers: Infinity War, Forbes said.

Her latest annual income quadrupled her earnings from the previous year and bumped last year's top-ranked Emma Stone from No. 1.

Angelina Jolie, with pre-tax earnings of $ 28 million, ranked the second on the list. Her turn in the forthcoming Maleficent 2 accounts for the majority of her payday.

Jennifer Aniston is third with $19.5 million. The former Friends star made most of her money by endorsing the likes of Emirates airlines, Smartwater and Aveeno.

Jennifer Lawrence and Reese Witherspoon claimed fourth and fifth place respectively, with a pre-tax income of $18 million and $16.5 million, followed by Mila Kunis, Julia Roberts, Cate Blanchett, Melissa McCarthy and Gal Gadot.