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Daily Mail
Lisa Kudrow (and co-stars): $20M a year for Friends:
She might not have filmed a single scene in 22 years but Friends is still a phenomenal money-spinner for actress Lisa Kudrow.
Recently, when asked why she and her four surviving co-stars earn $20 m a year from reruns of the American series, Kudrow, 62, credited her dippy onscreen alter ego, quipping: ‘Because Phoebe Buffay was so great?’
But nerves of steel and a crack team of agents and lawyers were arguably more important in securing the sort of syndication rights that mean Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer never have to work again.
After all, says celebrity public relations consultant Mark Borkowski: ‘It is show [i]business[i] – and there’s nothing more brutal than getting a deal.’
However, he stresses, ‘it really is the lucky few who get millions’.