FX.co ★ Top 10 Richest Female Actress in Television Industry

Sofia Vergara

Sofia Vergara is the star of the Modern Family and the highest paid television actress in 2016. Her revenue totaled $43 million. She is also the most powerful woman on television right now. The 42-year-old Colombian actress has four Golden Globe nominations for her character in Modern Family. Plus, Vergara has been nominated for four Emmy and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Kaley Cuoco Sweeting

This young and gorgeous actress is only 28 years old. However, her young age does not hinder her to earn $24.5 million this year. She is a popular endorser of the brand Priceline. In every episode of The Big Bang Theory, she earned $350,000.

Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling holds the third place with $15 million. Being a talented actress, she also serves as executive producer and writer of her own sitcom.

Marishka Hartigay

In the TV series titled Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, she played the role of Olivia Benson who happened to be a detective. She also acquired acting recognition from Emmy and Golden Globe. Her total earning is $14.5 million.

Ellen Pompeo

This TV actress is currently 44 years old, and she has been in the entertainment industry for several years now. In the most-viewed ABC drama titled Grey's Anatomy, she earned millions of dollars. She played the role Meredith Grey. In the next season, it is expected that she will also be starred in this show. $14.5 million is her total earning this year.

Kerry Washington

This American TV star is already 38 years old. She was born on January 31, 1977. Actually, her earning every year does not just come from acting in television. She also acquires it through her brand endorsements like Movado and Neutrogena. Her total earning is $13.5 million. Award-winning actress Kerry Washington has appeared in such films as 'Ray,' 'She Hate Me,' 'The Last King of Scotland' and 'Django Unchained.' She is also the star of the Shonda Rhimes TV series 'Scandal.'

Stana Katic

After seven successful seasons, Stana Katic worked the popularity of the TV show Castle into a big payout going into the show's eighth season. Earning about $12 million is a big increase from what Katic was bringing in for the majority of the show's run. For seven seasons, Castle averaged about 10 million viewers an episode, but that was cut down by about 40% in the eighth season. There were rumors that the show was going to get an additional season, but the drop in ratings didn't help encourage the show runners to keep it going.

Julianna Margulies

Julianna Margulies, star of the hit show The Good Wife, which just concluded its seventh and final season this year, comes in at number nine on the highest paid TV actresses list, earning a crazy $10.5 million this past year. Margulies, who was on ER for quite a while, has also won a total of eight Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) Awards, making her the winningest woman in SAG's history. Going into The Good Wife's final season, Margulies appeared to have gotten a little goodbye-and-thanks-for-the-good-times money because that payout is enormous. Without anything lined up for the near future, don't expect to see Margulies on any screen any time soon.

Priyanka Chopra

It still amazes people that some of the highest paid actors in the world are Bollywood stars. The biggest name of all the women from that scene is Priyanka Chopra, best known stateside for her show Quantico. Earning $11 million over the past year has brought Chopra into the conversation of richest actors for the first time in her career.

Julie Bowen

If you're thinking that Julie Bowen is only famous for once dating David Spade, get with the times. Way back when, Bowen was an up-and-comer, she was a minor cast member in Happy Gilmore, but since 2009, the actress has been best known as Claire Dunphy in Modern Family. She's also put together a lucrative deal with Neutrogena which has helped her grow her annual earnings to $10 million this past year.