The Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor will now earn nearly $1 million per episode for the upcoming season three of “Euphoria” where she portrays the series’ main character, Rue Bennett.
Zendaya now joins fellow $1 million milestone members, including the lead cast of “Friends” in their final season and the lead cast of “Game of Thrones.”
In 2021, Angela Bassett reportedly set a record for the highest-earning Black female actor on network television, earning $450,000 per “9-1-1” episode.
Kerry Washington earned over a million per episode for co-starring and co-producing in “Little Fires Everywhere.”
Zendaya hitting the $1 million mark perhaps makes her the youngest, highest-paid Black female actor on television.
