Forbes says it's Eddie Murphy. The comic actor has had a string of flops since his brief comeback with an Oscar nom for Dreamgirls, most notably Imagine That, A Thousand Words, Meet Dave and more recently Tower Heist.
"We estimate that for every $1 Murphy was paid for his last three films, they returned an average of $2.30 at the box office," according to Forbes.
Murphy may sit at the top of Forbes' list of the 10 most overpaid actors, but who else is on it? Forbes claims it "looked at the last three films each actor starred in over the last three years that opened in more than 2,000 theaters, calculating the return on investment for the studios who pay his (or her) salary."
Murphy's fellow overpaid actors include Katherine Heigl, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Adam Sandler, Denzel Washington, Ben Stiller, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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