I’m not gonna say Ellen’s story is a rags-to-riches one, but she truly worked her way up that Hollywood ladder. After getting her start as “Upset Girl” in a movie you’ve probably never heard of, Ellen now makes $20 million each year for playing Meredith Grey on the Shonda Rhimes show Grey’s Anatomy. (Although says she earned $22 million in 2019, just sayin’).
And those millions (plus bonuses plus “backend equity points”) weren’t just handed to her. Aside from working her butt off, she also had to go to the higher-ups at ABC and tell them she deserved more. , “When your face and your voice have been part of something that’s generated $3 billion for one of the biggest corporations in the world, you start to feel like, ‘Okay, maybe I do
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