Sandra Bullock Tops 7 Highest-Paid Actresses in Hollywood

Hollywood's leading ladies are competing fiercely to make the biggest bucks.

— -- intro: What's the secret to a woman's success in Hollywood? Being in an Oscar-winning action film seems to help.

"Gravity" star Sandra Bullock is the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, at least from between June 2013 and June 2014, according to Forbes.

Though women are making less than men, even in Hollywood, female-led action movies are making just as much as those starring men. But women have a long way to go. Forbes' most recent top 10 highest-paid actresses earned a combined total of $226 million, compared to the $419 million that the top men earned.

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Here are the seven highest-paid actresses in Hollywood.

quicklist:title: Angelina Jolie, $18 million (tie)media: 24838765text: Jolie, 39, starred in another Disney film, "Maleficent," while advocating for the prosecution of war rape.

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Johansson's sci-fi/action film "Lucy" was released after the time frame of Forbes' analysis, but there were plenty of gigs that contributed to the 29-year-old's income in the last year. She was the voice of a computer system named Samantha in "Her" and played the Black Widow in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."