AceShowbiz - Zendaya and Anne Hathaway lead the Instagram rankings among Hollywood's highest-earning actresses in 2026, according to a new report from PlayersTime. The findings show that only three women broke into the top 10 most-followed actors among the world's highest-earning movie stars.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson remains the most followed actor on Instagram with 381.1 million followers, while Zendaya ranks second with 178.6 million followers and is named 2026's most bankable actress. Tom Holland takes third place with 68.6 million followers and is the UK's number-one digital movie star.

Out of the world's highest-earning movie stars in 2026, only three women rank in the top 10 most followed on Instagram. Apart from Zendaya, the group includes Hathaway with 44.5 million followers, who claims the title of 2026's highest-earning actress while releasing five movies and navigating her pregnancy. Rounding out the trio is Sadie Sink with 35.1 million followers.

Meanwhile, Jon Bernthal has topped the global box office rankings as the year's top bankable actor, pulling in $4.33 billion across his most recent releases. By anchoring hits like Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, alongside releases like The Amateur and The Accountant 2, Bernthal surpassed the Spider-Man couple, Zendaya and Holland, to claim the global crown.

The report comes after Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence broke her multi-year social media boycott to make her official Instagram debut, intensifying the conversation about the relationship between traditional cinema star power and direct digital prominence.

To map out the most bankable movie stars, the team at PlayersTime combined box office earnings across each actor's and actress' major 2025-2026 theatrical releases, integrated active Instagram follower counts, and measured monthly Google search volumes. The team categorized all 200 names by age and country of origin.

Stanislava Savisheva, a data analyst at PlayersTime, commented on the findings: "Let's stop pretending that old-school Hollywood carries any real digital weight anymore. The Instagram leaderboard proves celebrity power has been reduced to a raw numbers game where actors operate as walking distribution monopolies."

Savisheva added that younger icons like Zendaya and Holland build networks that out-scale legacy titans like Leonardo DiCaprio. "Audiences demand a 24/7 digital main character who converts their private life into a viral product launch," she said. "While Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson still sits on an unreachable mountain of legacy branding, this new wave proves that personal digital reach is the only real metric of power left in the business."

Johnson, who has kept a relatively quiet profile throughout most of 2026, is set to return to the big screen in Jumanji: Open World, landing in theatres this Christmas.