GWOP Report: Highest-Paid TV Actresses

Forbes  recently dropped the list for the Highest Paid TV Actresses.  Checkout the top 7 below:

Tina Fey

$13 million
Fey’s first book, Bossypants, hit stores in April and sold 150,000 copies in the first month. The actress recently gave birth to her second child. 30 Rock returns later this year.

Eva Longoria

$13 million
Longoria earns more than her Desperate Housewives costars thanks to lucrative endorsement deals with L’Oreal and LG. Her restaurant chain, Beso, is still struggling with financial troubles.

Marcia Cross

$10 million
Cross earns big from Desperate Housewives’ new shows and syndication of the hit show. She’ll soon have to look for new work though. The Housewives just started their final season.

Mariska Hargitay

$10 million
Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit is the franchise’s most successful effort to date averaging 53 million viewers per week between new and syndicated show.

Marg Helgenberger

$10 million
Helgenberger is the steady hand that keeps the original CSI going strong. This season (the show’s 11th) she is acting against a new leading man as Ted Danson takes over from Laurence Fishburne.

Teri Hatcher

$9 million
Hatcher pulls in an estimated $375,000 per episode on Desperate Housewives but with the show ending this season, she’ll need to find some new work. Her Disney advice website,GetHatched.com, never took off.

Felicity Huffman

$9 million
Huffman is the only Desperate Housewives lead with an Oscar nod under her belt. She was nominated for Best Actress for the 2005 movie Transamerica. With her successful TV show ending this year, she’ll have a chance to develop her movie career.

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