Forbes magazine, who named the richest Hollywood actor, this time announced the name of the series’s highest paid actor.

So, the unconditional leadership in the ranking was received by the star of The Big Bang Theory, Jim Parsons, who played Sheldon Cooper. For the year he earned 26.5 million dollars.

Parsons' colleague Johnny Galeki, who plays Sheldon's friend Leonard Hofstadder, came in second with 25 million.

Simon Helberg and Kunal Niyar shared the third and fourth positions of the rating, which earned 23.5 million during the filming of the series..

Interestingly, last year the performers of the main male roles in The Big Bang Theory agreed to reduce their fee from one million to 900 thousand..

They took this step so that the creators of the project could increase the salaries of actresses who play in the seral, Melissa Rausch and Mayim Bialik.

In fifth place in the Forbes ranking is Mark Harmon from the TV show "Marine Police. "with 19 million dollars.

From sixth to ninth place are the actors from the comedy series "The American Family": Ed O'Neill ($ 14 million), Eric Stonstreet ($ 13.5 million), Jesse Tyler Ferguson ($ 13 million) and Ty Burella ($ 12 million ). The tenth place went to actor Andrew Lincoln from the TV series The Walking Dead, which earned $ 11 million.