Amy Poehler | AGE 49 | $25 Million

Amy Poehler was bitten by the acting bug when she was given a chance to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz in her middle school. She continued this interest while she was in high school. She even joined an improv comedy troupe while she was in college. She later enrolled at ImprovOlympic, where she met Tina Fey. Her most significant break was when she was cast in Saturday Night Live. She worked with Tina Fey in the Weekend Update segment where they impersonated Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, which went viral.

Her most recent work was in Parks and Recreation, where she took on the role of Leslie Knope. The show was a spinoff of The Office, which ran from 2009 to 2015. Her other works included Mean Girls, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Shrek the Third, and Baby Mama. She also used her investment money, time, and effort into making Wine Country which starred Maya Rudolph and Tinay Fey.