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Tina Fey, Mariska Hargitay and Julianna Margulies Among Hollywood's Highest Paid TV Actresses

Tina Fey, Mariska Hargitay and Julianna Margulies Among Hollywood's Highest Paid TV Actresses

Forbes Magazine has released its list of the highest paid television actresses and a few of our favorites comprise the top 10, with 30 Rock funny lady and scribe topping the list at a cool $13 million a year along with Desperate Housewives Eva Longoria, who appears to have hammered out a better contract than her Housewives costars. So much for the golden age of Friends when the cast stuck together to negotiate their contracts.

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Forbes Magazine has released its list of the highest paid television actresses and a few of our favorites comprise the top 10, with 30 Rock funny lady and scribe topping the list at a cool $13 million a year along with Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, who appears to have hammered out a better contract than her Housewives' costars. So much for the golden age of Friends when the cast stuck together to negotiate their contracts.

Longoria pulls in $13 mill a year while her costar Marcia Cross makes $10 million and Felicity Huffman and Teri Hatcher both make $9 million.

Also pulling in a hefty salary is Mariska Hargitay, who’s been one of the anchors of Law & Order: SVU since its inception. She joins Cross at the $10 mill salary along with CSI’s Marg Helgenberger.

Former friend and Cougar Town executive producer Courteney Cox is still doing pretty well for herself  at $7 million per year.

Grey’s Anatomy’s narrator Ellen Pompeo also makes $7 million, and while she’s great in the role we would have loved to see Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw in that slot just for playing such an adorable lesbian couple.

Rounding out the top ten is The Good Wife star and recent Emmy winner Julianna Margulies at $6 million.

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.