But when it comes to women of color, starring on a long-running TV series, landing a major franchise role, or bringing in big bucks producing isn’t happening at as high a rate as it is for white women. Before this year, Forbes separated the highest earning TV actresses from the highest earning film actresses. Vergara has topped the TV list for seven years in a row , and that list has included non-white women more often than the film list. In 2018, the TV list also included Kerry Washington . In 2016 and 2017 , Vergara and Washington were joined by Mindy Kaling and Priyanka Chopra. The past five years of the film list, on the other hand, only featured two non-white women: Fan Bingbing ( twice ) and Deepika Padukone ( once ).