Forbes List of Young Hollywood's Top Earners

The young stars of Hollywood seem to be in the news all of the time. Their exploits, drinking, hard-partying and sexual exploits seem to there for all to see every time you turn on the television, or open the newspaper. Although some of the top earing young stars, are garnering notorious headlines, most of them are not more famous for their personal exploits then for their work.

There is a growing number of young stars, and and potential stars, who are aggressive and well-compensated, earning impressive record number incomes for young people in Hollywood.

Forbes has compiled a list of Young Hollywood's Top Earning Stars. This is a list of Hollywood's' most sought after young stars. Some of them are well known, but there are many on this list who are not yet household names. These top earners are predicted to be the superstars of the future. the stars on this list are all under 21 years old. Here they are in order of estimated income ranking.

1. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: $40 million. Ages 20. Moguls, Models, Actresses. These formed child stars currently earn most of their income from retail sales. After the television series "Full House" ended, the twins began heavily merchandising their image and established a company called Dualstar in 1993. The tween market has turned Dualstart into a billion dollar retail empire, selling their likeness as seen in clothes, fragrances, magazines, movies and poster.

2. Daniel Radcliffe: $13 million. Age 17. Actor. Famous for his Harry Potter role. The movies adapted for J.K. Rowling's blockbuster series has made him rich. He is now making a move to a different kind of role, for more mature audiences. He is appearing on stage, sans clothes, in London Stage revival of "Equus".

3. Lindsay Lohan. $6 million. Age 20. Actress. Notorious for her club hopping and recent hard partying, Lindsay Lohan is reportedly in rehab. Lindsay is currently filming "I Know Who Killed Me". Lindsay has appeared in "The Parent Trap", 'Mean Girls" "A Prairie Home Companion", "Herbie: Fully Loaded".

4. Dakota Fanning. $4 million. Age 13. Actress. Dakota Fanning is a popular kiddie actress. Dakota was awarded a SAG Award for her role in "I Am Sam", at a recored young age of 8. Dakota has already performed in 18 films. In 2005 she was in Steven Spielberg's movie "War of the Worlds", which starred Tom Cruise. Dakota has appeared in the movies: "Trapped", "Sweet Home Alabama", "Uptown Girls", "The Cat in the Hat", "Man on Fire", "Hide and Seek", "Lilo & Stitch" and more.

5. Amanda Bynes. $2.5 million. Age 20. Actress. You may know her form Nickelodeon of her WB television series "What I Like About You" Recently she starred in "She's the Man". Amanda's in the upcoming film "Hairspray", which star John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer.

6. Hayden Panettiere. $2 million. Age 17. Actress. Panettiere started out in commercials at the very young age of 8 weeks, and became a child actress in the soaps. She has appeared in films with Denzel Washington, Kate Hudson and Hilary Swank. She plays cheerleader Claire Bennet in NBC's hit series "Heroes"

7. Vanessa Anne Hudgens. $2 million. Age 18. Profession Actress/Singer.Vanessa debuted in "Thirteen" and "Thunderbirds" in 2003.

8. Abigail Breslin: $1.5 million. Age 10. Actress. Abigail has been acting since the age of 5 ans has appeared Kate Hudson's film "Raising Helen" and in ""Little Miss Sunshine" and in "Superfreak". She was nominated of a Supporting Actress for "Little Miss Sunshine"

9. Tyler James Williams: $1.2 million. Age 14. Actor. Tyler has been on
"Sesame Street" and "Little Bill". Currently he is on the CW's hit television series "Everybody Hates Chris", playing the young Chris Rock.

10. Joanna "JoJo" Levesque. $1 million. Age 16. Singer, Songwriter, Actress. JoJo had a hit single "Too Little Too Late" last year. Last year a JoJo co-starred in 'Aquamarine' opposite Robin Williams.

Forbes selected the young performers for this list, analyzing box office receipts, album sale and tour grosses, TV rating and other data form industry experts. further information is available on the Forbes website.