Jessie Wallace – $14 Million

Slow and steady wins the race, and Jessie Wallace’s career is precisely about that. This famous English actress collected a whopping fortune of $14 million mainly by keeping her job in the classic BBC soap “EastEnders.” She portrays one of the show’s best-known characters: ‘Kat Slater.’

Wallace’s been ‘Kat Slater’ since 2000 and has already made it to over 1,570 episodes of the soap. She has a few other acting credits, including most notably “Wild at Heart,” “The Road to Coronation Street,” “Redwater,” “Amoc,” and “Children in Need.” She’s among the British celebrities most frequently splashed across the country’s many tabloid newspapers.