Daniel is top earner

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Daniel is top earner
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Daniel is apparently the world's top-earning young male actor Daniel Radcliffe is apparently the world's top-earning young male actor.

According to Forbes.com's 20 Under 25: The Top-Earning Young Superstars, the British star, who is most famous for playing Harry Potter, earned 15 million dollars - more than performers twice his age like Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock.

But the 18-year-old didn't earn enough to top the list, only coming in sixth, with that enviable position going to 22-year-old NBA star LeBron James, who banked 27 million dollars last year.

The Harry Potter franchise also turned his co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint into instant millionaires, as they found their way onto the list.

Sportspeople were the highest paid, with NFL's Reggie Bush (24 million dollars), tennis ace Maria Sharapova (23 million dollars), and golfer Michelle Wie (19 million dollars) taking second, third and fourth places respectively.

Entrepeneurial acting twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (17 million dollars each) took fifth place.

While Daniel didn't top the list, he did come up trumps over another British talent, 22-year-old Keira Knightley, who came 10th, having banked nine million dollars last year.

Other stars who made it onto the list included Scarlett Johansson, Mischa Barton and Lindsay Lohan.

The list took into account their earnings from June 2006 to June 2007 and includes salaries, winnings, endorsement deals and royalties.