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Sofia Vergara Is The Highest Paid Actress On TV

She makes ALL of the money.

Forbes has released its annual list of the highest-paid actresses on TV and once again, Sofia Vergara came in at number one for the fifth year in a row with a whopping $57 million.

The 44-year-old Modern Family star has her role on the hit show to thank for her success but in the past 12 months it was a number of endorsement deals that really propelled her fortune – up 66% from last year.

                       

Among her lucrative endorsement deals are contracts with Head and Shoulders, a line of furniture and also a line of scrubs for nurses.

Coming in second place was The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco, who unlike Sofia, makes the majority of $32.7 million from the show.

Kaley and her co-stars all make $1 million per episode for the his CBS show, which makes her the actress with the biggest TV deal.

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Mindy Kaling jumped five places this year to take out the third spot with $20 million thanks to her hit show, The Mindy Project.

“In all, the 15 highest-paid female stars of the small screen made a combined $A278.7 million between June 2015 and June 2016 — $A58 million more than last year’s combined total of $A220 million,” said Forbes.

The rest of the 10 highest paid TV actresses are:

4. Ellen Pompeo – $19 million

4. Mariska Hargitay – $19 million

6. Kerry Washington $A18 million

7. Stana Katic $A16 million

8. Priyanka Chopra $A14.7 million

9. Julianna Margulies $A14 million

10. Julie Bowen $A13 million

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