World's Highest Paid Actresses

Forbes reveals highest paid actresses of 2015

First on "CBS This Morning," Forbes magazine reveals this year's list of the world's highest paid actresses.

At number three, Melissa McCarthy, star of this summer's comedy "Spy." She earned $23 million in the 12 months from June 2014 to June 2015. Scarlett Johansson comes in second at $35.5 million. "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence moves up a notch to number one, pulling in $52 million. That's $1 million more than last year's top earner, Sandra Bullock.

1. Jennifer Lawrence $52,000,000
Jennifer Lawrence attends the premiere of Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Nov. 17, 2014, in Los Angeles. Jason Merritt/Getty Images
2. Scarlett Johansson $35,500,000
Scarlett Johansson arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" on April 13, 2015. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
3. Melissa McCarthy $23,000,000
Melissa McCarthy attends the premiere of "Spy" at AMC Loews Lincoln Square on Monday, June 1, 2015, in New York. Andy Kropa/Invision/AP
4. Bingbing Fan $21,000,000
Hugh Jackman, Fan Bingbing and Peter Dinklage pose as they arrive at the Australian premiere of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past" on May 16, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. Graham Denholm/Getty Images
5. Jennifer Aniston $16,500,000
Actress Jennifer Aniston attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 22, 2015. Jason Merritt/Getty Images
6. Julia Roberts $16,000,000
Julia Roberts arrives at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Los Angeles. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
7. Angelina Jolie $15,000,000
Angelina Jolie stands during a visit to a camp for displaced Iraqis in Khanke, a few miles from the Turkish border in Iraq's Dohuk province, on January 25, 2015. Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images
8. Reese Witherspoon $15,000,000
Reese Witherspoon arrives at the Oscars on Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
9. Anne Hathaway $12,000,000
Anne Hathaway arrives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating "China: Through the Looking Glass" on May 4, 2015, in New York. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
10. Kristen Stewart $12,000,000
Kristen Stewart poses prior to attend Chanel 2015 Haute Couture Spring-Summer collection fashion show on Jan. 27, 2015 at the Grand Palais in Paris. Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images
11. Cameron Diaz $11,000,000
Cameron Diaz attends a "Sex Tape" screening on July 14, 2014 in New York. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images
12. Gwyneth Paltrow $9,000,000
Gwyneth Paltrow attends a party in Highland Park Village on November 20, 2014 in Dallas, Texas, for her blog "Goop." The lifestyle website frequently includes health and wellness advice from the actress. Layne Murdoch Jr./Getty Images
13. Meryl Streep $8,000,000
Actress Meryl Streep attends the 86th Academy Awards nominee luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 10, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
14. Amanda Seyfried $8,000,000
Actress Amanda Seyfried attends the 19th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner at Skylight Modern on Dec. 10, 2014, in New York. Thos Robinson/Getty Images for ACRIA
15. Sandra Bullock $8,000,000
Sandra Bullock attends the Oscars held at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 2, 2014, in Hollywood, California. Jason Merritt/Getty Images
16. Emma Stone $6,500,000
Emma Stone attends a VIP screening of 'Aloha' at Soho Hotel on May 16, 2015 in London, England. Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images
17. Mila Kunis $6,500,000
Mila Kunis speaks at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on April 13, 2014, in Los Angeles. Getty Images for MTV
18. Natalie Portman $6,000,000
Natalie Portman smiles on stage before addressing the Class of 2015 during Harvard University's Class Day Exercises in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 27, 2015. Reuters

Newcomers include Bingbing Fan and Amanda Seyfried, while Forbes list veterans like Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Angelina Jolie continue to make the list through lucrative endorsements.

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