Who’s the richest James Bond actor? Net worths, ranked – from OG icon Sean Connery’s US$350 million stash, to Pierce Brosnan’s payday and outgoing 007 Daniel Craig’s US$25 million per film deal

Dec 25, 2022

Four of the actors who played James Bond, from left: Daniel Craig, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery. Photos: @tiernysimon/Twitter, Getty Images

Oldest and longest lasting 007 Roger Moore appeared in a record seven Bond films, but his estate’s US$110 million fortune isn’t a patch on three of the franchise’s other leading men

Pierce Brosnan, who reinvented the role across four films, started out with a US$4 million salary for GoldenEye – but ended up banking four times that for his final outing

Ah, Bond … James Bond. He’s revered for his dapper looks and sleek style, his elusive spy moves, and his suave playboy ways – charming his way through women while dolling out violence with an apparent guilt-free licence to kill. To a certain generation of men, 007 is the ultimate symbol of masculinity – an unfathomably cool sex symbol who can apparently make nearly every woman he desires weak in the knees.

While the misogynist overtones and post-colonial posturing of the character’s heyday may be better left in the past, playing Bond is still a career-defining role that has propelled every actor lucky enough to order a vodka-martini “shaken, not stirred” to eternal superstardom (well, five of them, anyway). A gig playing 007 creates a new generation’s “It” man, guaranteeing a lifetime of future employment, and a subsequently stratospheric net worth.

Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time to Die. Photo: MGM/Universal