No.2 Highest-Paid Actor for a Single Role: Keanu Reeves
Paid: $262 million (The Matrix I, II, and III)
The reason Keanu Reeves made so much money with the Matrix movies is that he did not receive only a salary for the 3 installments, but also a percentage of the sales. For the second movie in the trilogy alone, Reeves cashed in a whopping $126 million, making him the highest paid actor for a single movie.
