Highest Paid Actor

Someone you never think of as being the highest paid actor given his low-keyed demeanor and non-limelight life style, but Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is that person.

The 'Rock', with now famous brow-raiser.

Dubbed the 'hardest working man in Hollywood' by his peers, Johnson made over $70 million last year.  Audiences love Johnson because he is a 'normal guy'.  If you are a studio exec and want your movie to make mega-bucks hire Johnson.

Starting his career in the Worldwide Wrestling Federation, wrestling promoters didn't know if they should cast 'The Rock' as a good guy or bad guy, so they told him to just be himself. So, he branded himself a potty-mouthed, brow-raising, people's champ.  Then, when the WWF started dallying around with musical acts, their then, biggest star was there to perform and would-up making a hit song called, 'It Doesn't Matter'.

Slowly, Johnson has turned into an actor that blockbusters are made for.  An actor that's not striving for critical acclaim in serious message movies but who just wants to have fun making movies and he's obviously become quite good at it.

With non-stop energy and a goal-driven personality, this year he will complete another series of episodes of the HBO hit-show, 'Ballers', star in the reboots of 'Jumanji' and 'Baywatch', and is now shooting for 'Fast & Furious 8'.

Johnson commands $20+ million per film and has worked himself into a position where he can also get a piece of the film's gross take.  Johnson's salary puts him into the elite, not of Hollywood, but of sports - where he started out as a football player in the Canadian Football League.

Dwayne Johnson is half Black Nova Scotian, and half Somoan and comes from a long-line of professional wrestlers. He was born and raised in Hayward, CA where he still lives.