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Top Domestic Leading Stars for Thriller/Suspense Movies
See also: Domestic Leading Adventure Stars - Domestic Leading Action Stars - Domestic Leading Comedy Stars - Domestic Leading Drama Stars - Domestic Leading Horror Stars - Domestic Leading Romantic Comedy Stars - Domestic Leading Musical Stars - International Leading Thriller/Suspense Stars - Worldwide Leading Thriller/Suspense Stars
This chart contains the top 100 stars based on the cumulative domestic box office of all the Thriller/Suspense movies a star has had a leading role in over their lifetime.
Roles in animated movies and other voice-only roles are included in the calculations in this chart.
1
Matt Damon
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 37 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: The Bourne Ultimatum ($227,471,070 in 2007), Ocean's Eleven ($183,417,150 in 2001), The Bourne Supremacy ($176,087,450 in 2004), The Bourne Identity ($121,468,960 in 2002), The Talented Mr. Ripley ($81,292,135 in 1999), Contagion ($75,658,097 in 2011), The Adjustment Bureau ($62,495,645 in 2011), The Instigators ($0 in 2024), The King of Oil ($0 in 2019) |
2
Morgan Freeman
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 38 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Now You See Me ($117,723,989 in 2013), Se7en ($100,125,643 in 1995), Olympus Has Fallen ($98,927,592 in 2013), Oblivion ($89,107,235 in 2013), Along Came a Spider ($74,058,698 in 2001), Angel Has Fallen ($69,030,436 in 2019), Outbreak ($67,823,573 in 1995), Now You See Me 2 ($65,075,540 in 2016), London Has Fallen ($62,524,260 in 2016), Kiss the Girls ($60,527,873 in 1997) |
3
Denzel Washington
| Best known as a Leading Actor based on credits in that role in 47 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Safe House ($126,181,630 in 2012), The Pelican Brief ($100,768,056 in 1993), Inside Man ($88,634,237 in 2006), Man on Fire ($77,906,816 in 2004), Training Day ($76,261,036 in 2001), John Q. ($71,026,631 in 2002), The Bone Collector ($66,488,090 in 1999), The Manchurian Candidate ($65,948,711 in 2004), Déjà Vu ($64,038,616 in 2006), Out of Time ($41,083,108 in 2003) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Damon | $927,890,507 | 9 | $103,098,945 |
| 2 | Morgan Freeman | $868,963,512 | 17 | $51,115,501 |
| 3 | Denzel Washington | $844,739,198 | 15 | $56,315,947 |
| 4 | Bruce Willis | $731,385,112 | 16 | $45,711,570 |
| 5 | Michael Douglas | $673,602,938 | 15 | $44,906,863 |
| 6 | Brad Pitt | $669,083,573 | 11 | $60,825,779 |
| 7 | Ben Affleck | $663,653,330 | 11 | $60,332,121 |
| 8 | Harrison Ford | $659,627,568 | 8 | $82,453,446 |
| 9 | Leonardo DiCaprio | $602,486,523 | 4 | $150,621,631 |
| 10 | George Clooney | $584,952,926 | 6 | $97,492,154 |
| 11 | Tom Cruise | $511,241,550 | 5 | $102,248,310 |
| 12 | Liam Neeson | $499,889,034 | 14 | $35,706,360 |
| 13 | Joaquin Phoenix | $449,648,831 | 3 | $149,882,944 |
| 14 | Samuel L. Jackson | $441,003,494 | 16 | $27,562,718 |
| 15 | Sandra Bullock | $404,441,911 | 5 | $80,888,382 |
| 16 | Mel Gibson | $387,105,602 | 11 | $35,191,418 |
| 17 | Gerard Butler | $353,307,635 | 9 | $39,256,404 |
| 18 | Angelina Jolie | $344,781,369 | 7 | $49,254,481 |
| 19 | Julia Roberts | $339,678,281 | 7 | $48,525,469 |
| 20 | Robert De Niro | $326,885,421 | 11 | $29,716,856 |
| 21 | Mark Wahlberg | $324,132,214 | 9 | $36,014,690 |
| 22 | Richard Gere | $317,508,764 | 13 | $24,423,751 |
| 23 | Jodie Foster | $317,151,533 | 6 | $52,858,589 |
| 24 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | $312,851,641 | 3 | $104,283,880 |
| 25 | Maggie Grace | $305,297,965 | 4 | $76,324,491 |
| 26 | Haley Joel Osment | $293,506,292 | 2 | $146,753,146 |
| 27 | Elliot Page | $292,576,195 | 1 | $292,576,195 |
| 28 | Kurt Russell | $278,700,925 | 7 | $39,814,418 |
| 29 | Jamie Foxx | $275,096,109 | 6 | $45,849,352 |
| 30 | Kevin Costner | $271,648,074 | 7 | $38,806,868 |
| 31 | Clive Owen | $268,599,808 | 8 | $33,574,976 |
| 32 | Jake Gyllenhaal | $263,519,481 | 11 | $23,956,316 |
| 33 | Tom Hanks | $260,531,018 | 4 | $65,132,755 |
| 34 | Will Smith | $256,393,010 | 5 | $51,278,602 |
| 35 | Al Pacino | $255,415,908 | 8 | $31,926,989 |
| 36 | Blake Lively | $253,835,186 | 8 | $31,729,398 |
| 37 | John Travolta | $242,056,866 | 12 | $20,171,406 |
| 38 | Jeremy Renner | $241,641,837 | 4 | $60,410,459 |
| 39 | Wesley Snipes | $240,989,008 | 8 | $30,123,626 |
| 40 | Gwyneth Paltrow | $238,195,809 | 4 | $59,548,952 |
| 41 | Clint Eastwood | $237,211,701 | 5 | $47,442,340 |
| 42 | Kevin Spacey | $235,798,668 | 6 | $39,299,778 |
| 43 | Sharon Stone | $235,506,822 | 6 | $39,251,137 |
| 44 | James Caviezel | $233,213,740 | 4 | $58,303,435 |
| 45 | Dennis Quaid | $229,711,248 | 10 | $22,971,125 |
| 46 | Jon Hamm | $222,870,465 | 5 | $44,574,093 |
| 47 | Dave Franco | $221,383,155 | 4 | $55,345,789 |
| 48 | Michelle Pfeiffer | $218,165,778 | 4 | $54,541,445 |
| 49 | John Goodman | $214,066,817 | 3 | $71,355,606 |
| 50 | Laurence Fishburne | $209,671,609 | 11 | $19,061,055 |
| 51 | Andy Garcia | $208,770,932 | 6 | $34,795,155 |
| 52 | Johnny Depp | $207,623,900 | 7 | $29,660,557 |
| 53 | Pierce Brosnan | $204,417,332 | 11 | $18,583,394 |
| 54 | Mark Ruffalo | $201,007,607 | 3 | $67,002,536 |
| 55 | Woody Harrelson | $200,940,442 | 6 | $33,490,074 |
| 56 | Jude Law | $190,737,786 | 7 | $27,248,255 |
| 57 | Nicolas Cage | $190,606,379 | 18 | $10,589,243 |
| 58 | Lupita Nyong'o | $189,655,035 | 2 | $94,827,518 |
| 59 | Rosamund Pike | $187,701,924 | 7 | $26,814,561 |
| 60 | Shia LaBeouf | $187,392,159 | 4 | $46,848,040 |
| 61 | Emily Blunt | $184,779,973 | 3 | $61,593,324 |
| 62 | Aaron Eckhart | $184,132,472 | 11 | $16,739,316 |
| 63 | Michael Caine | $183,142,424 | 8 | $22,892,803 |
| 64 | Jesse Eisenberg | $183,071,284 | 7 | $26,153,041 |
| 65 | Nicole Kidman | $182,000,420 | 13 | $14,000,032 |
| 66 | Sean Connery | $180,561,088 | 3 | $60,187,029 |
| 67 | Ryan Reynolds | $170,190,943 | 5 | $34,038,189 |
| 68 | Benicio del Toro | $168,316,213 | 5 | $33,663,243 |
| 69 | Anthony Hopkins | $166,286,282 | 11 | $15,116,935 |
| 70 | Noomi Rapace | $166,173,012 | 12 | $13,847,751 |
| 71 | Jennifer Lawrence | $164,689,208 | 3 | $54,896,403 |
| 72 | Edward Norton | $164,025,304 | 2 | $82,012,652 |
| 73 | Aaron Taylor-Johnson | $163,158,123 | 4 | $40,789,531 |
| 74 | George MacKay | $159,227,644 | 2 | $79,613,822 |
| 75 | Dean-Charles Chapman | $159,227,644 | 1 | $159,227,644 |
| 76 | Natalie Portman | $158,971,953 | 3 | $52,990,651 |
| 77 | Glenn Close | $156,645,693 | 1 | $156,645,693 |
| 78 | Bryce Dallas Howard | $156,482,689 | 2 | $78,241,345 |
| 79 | Michael Ealy | $156,468,028 | 4 | $39,117,007 |
| 80 | John Cusack | $156,275,691 | 17 | $9,192,688 |
| 81 | Jennifer Lopez | $154,080,884 | 8 | $19,260,111 |
| 82 | Demi Moore | $153,240,553 | 4 | $38,310,138 |
| 83 | Nick Nolte | $152,918,718 | 4 | $38,229,680 |
| 84 | Idris Elba | $152,799,631 | 6 | $25,466,605 |
| 85 | Brian Tyree Henry | $152,479,371 | 3 | $50,826,457 |
| 86 | Bryan Cranston | $151,479,282 | 3 | $50,493,094 |
| 87 | Dustin Hoffman | $151,157,166 | 5 | $30,231,433 |
| 88 | Ethan Hawke | $150,220,125 | 10 | $15,022,013 |
| 89 | Tommy Lee Jones | $149,948,814 | 3 | $49,982,938 |
| 90 | Rooney Mara | $146,026,657 | 3 | $48,675,552 |
| 91 | Alan Arkin | $145,761,548 | 2 | $72,880,774 |
| 92 | Margot Robbie | $142,624,189 | 4 | $35,656,047 |
| 93 | Rebecca Hall | $141,724,522 | 3 | $47,241,507 |
| 94 | Jessica Chastain | $141,514,189 | 6 | $23,585,698 |
| 95 | Sharlto Copley | $140,690,235 | 2 | $70,345,118 |
| 96 | Rebecca De Mornay | $140,188,947 | 5 | $28,037,789 |
| 97 | Famke Janssen | $139,854,287 | 4 | $34,963,572 |
| 98 | Catherine Zeta-Jones | $139,581,317 | 3 | $46,527,106 |
| 99 | Russell Crowe | $138,093,901 | 8 | $17,261,738 |
| 100 | Elle Fanning | $137,580,848 | 2 | $68,790,424 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
Image attributions
Matt Damon: By nicolas genin from Paris, France [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Morgan Freeman: By David Sifry (David Sifry's flickr account) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Denzel Washington: Falkenauge at the German language Wikipedia [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
