Spider-Man: Brand New Day Cast Net Worth Ranked

Nineteen actors turned Spider-Man: Brand New Day into one of the buzziest ensemble superhero movies of the year, and their paychecks tell almost as interesting a story as the film itself. From a Jackie Chan Stunt Team veteran to Marvel’s two highest-paid names walking away with eight figures each, this cast spans nearly the entire pay scale of the entertainment industry in one movie. We’re ranking all 19 from lowest net worth to highest, and one name was left off on purpose: Olivia Booth-Ford, who plays Jean Grey’s sister Sara. If you enjoyed a similar breakdown for Marvel’s other big 2026 ensemble, our ranking of the Avengers: Doomsday cast by net worth covers several of the same actors from a different angle.

19. Xiaoshuang Fan — Estimated $200,000 to $800,000

Xiaoshuang Fan plays the Leader of the Hand in Brand New Day, but her real specialty is stunt work. A tenth-generation member of the legendary Jackie Chan Stunt Team from Hebei, China, she’s spent roughly a decade doubling actresses in massive productions, including Meng’er Zhang in Shang-Chi and Iman Vellani in The Marvels. No salary figures for her have ever been made public, so this estimate leans on SAG-AFTRA stunt scale, just over $1,000 a day, applied across years of contracted work on Marvel-tier films, landing her net worth in the low to mid six figures.

18. Dean Meminger — Estimated $500,000 to $1.5 Million

Dean Meminger isn’t an actor at all. He plays a version of himself, an NY1 crime reporter, in one of the film’s news broadcast cameos, a role built on nearly three decades on air at the New York cable news station since 1997. Local news anchor pay data from Glassdoor and comparable NYC outlets puts a reporter of his seniority somewhere between $150,000 and $250,000 a year, which over a career of steady saving translates to a net worth realistically in this range, not the wild multimillion dollar guesses some sites have thrown around for him.

17. Marvin Jones III — Estimated $600,000 to $2 Million

Marvin Jones III, credited here as Lonnie Lincoln, better known as Tombstone, has built a career split between acting and music under his stage name Krondon. He spent four seasons as Tobias Whale on The CW’s Black Lightning, a notoriously modest paying network, and voiced Tombstone again in the Oscar winning Into the Spider-Verse. His music side, touring and recording with the group Strong Arm Steady plus ghostwriting credits for Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre in the 2000s, adds real but bounded income on top of that, pointing to a figure well below the unsourced $4 million some aggregator sites repeat.

16. Eman Esfandi — Estimated $1 Million to $2 Million

Eman Esfandi plays Paul, MJ’s new boyfriend in Brand New Day, a role that arrives on the heels of his breakout as the voice and motion capture lead of Ezra Bridger in Star Wars: Ahsoka. That Disney+ series is the clear foundation of his current earnings, alongside a handful of smaller film and TV credits building since. With no reported salary figures publicly available for either project, his net worth is best estimated in this range for an actor still early in a fast rising career.

15. Pat Kiernan — Estimated $850,000 to $3 Million

Pat Kiernan, the longtime NY1 morning anchor known to New Yorkers for his newspaper headlines segment, plays a version of himself in the film, much like colleague Dean Meminger. His estimate sits somewhat higher than Meminger’s mainly because of tenure. Kiernan has anchored NY1’s morning show since 1997 and become something of a local media institution in his own right, appearing in cameo roles across other New York set productions over the years, which pushes his likely net worth a bit further than a typical local anchor.

14. Liza Colón-Zayas — Estimated $1 Million to $4 Million

Liza Colón-Zayas plays a detective figure, reportedly Jean DeWolff, and arrives on this film fresh off winning the 2024 Emmy for The Bear, a genuine career inflection point after decades of steady, less visible character work and playwriting. Speaking to the Associated Press at the Brand New Day premiere, she reflected on wrapping The Bear’s final season and returning to Broadway, the two threads currently defining her career alongside this Marvel booking. Multiple outlets have noted this casting likely doubled her annual income on its own.

13. Jacob Batalon — Estimated $1.5 Million to $4 Million

Jacob Batalon has played Ned Leeds across every live action Spider-Man film since 2017’s Homecoming, and his reported per film salary climbed from around $150,000 for that debut to roughly $600,000 by Far From Home. In a behind the scenes compilation assembled by Stream Wars from the film’s official production materials, Batalon described coming into the franchise “so green” and called the whole run “my own learning experience,” reflecting on how far Ned’s arc has come. Brand New Day is almost certainly his highest single payday in the role yet.

12. Zabryna Guevara — Estimated $2 Million to $4 Million

Zabryna Guevara returns as New York City Mayor Sheila Rivera, a character she originated on Netflix’s Daredevil: Born Again, in a brief Brand New Day cameo. Her broader résumé includes a recurring role on Fox’s Gotham and a part in X-Men: Days of Future Past, giving her steady, if not headline grabbing, franchise television and film income over the past decade. That mix of TV recurring rates and supporting film work supports this range.

11. Tramell Tillman — Estimated $2 Million to $4 Million

Tramell Tillman plays Bill Metzger, a Department of Damage Control official, in a role reportedly wrapped in heavy non-disclosure agreements before release. His real career defining moment came separately, with a 2025 Emmy win for Severance, and speaking with the Associated Press at the premiere, he described himself as a “career thespian” while teasing the show’s third season. That Severance breakout is doing most of the work in his current earnings, since no Brand New Day salary figure has been disclosed.

10. Sadie Sink — Estimated $2.5 Million to $4 Million

Sadie Sink’s casting as Jean Grey was rumored for months before she confirmed it herself around the film’s release. Speaking with the Associated Press on the red carpet, she described joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as being welcomed into a “warm embrace,” while carefully dodging further plot details. Her income mix is genuinely diverse for someone her age: a Stranger Things per episode rate reported to have climbed from around $150,000 to $250,000, film work including The Whale and the Fear Street trilogy, and a Tony nominated Broadway run in John Proctor Is the Villain.

9. Michael Mando — Estimated $2.4 Million to $4.4 Million

Michael Mando returns as Mac Gargan, the Scorpion, and in a direct interview clip with podcast host Tommy DiDario, he got unusually personal about it, describing a recurring nightmare where “Scorpion is standing on top of me” in a room on fire, and how he copes with pressure by trying to “clear your mind” and just do his best. His income foundation is built on Better Call Saul, reportedly paying between $50,000 and $75,000 per episode across 59 episodes, plus ongoing residuals tied to his voice role in the Far Cry 3 video game.

8. Keith David — Estimated $5 Million to $8 Million

Keith David doesn’t appear on screen so much as he anchors the film’s in-universe “Spider Video” narration, a small but instantly recognizable voice cameo. That’s fitting for an actor whose real financial engine has always been voice work: he’s played the Arbiter across multiple Halo games, Captain Anderson throughout the Mass Effect trilogy, and Julius Little in the Saints Row franchise, alongside a four decade run of film and TV character roles like There’s Something About Mary and Community. Video game voice work typically pays scale rates per session rather than backend royalties, but across that many franchise roles and that many years, it adds up.

7. Jon Bernthal — Estimated $12 Million

Jon Bernthal brings Frank Castle, the Punisher, back for Brand New Day, and in an interview with Rotten Tomatoes Trailers, he explained that he can only play the character through the lens of a father and husband processing “endless darkness,” not as a straightforward action antihero. He also revealed a genuine friendship with Tom Holland going back to when Holland was just 17, shooting their earliest audition tapes together in Ireland. Bernthal’s earnings are unusually well documented for this cast: a reported $80,000 per episode on The Walking Dead, roughly $350,000 per episode for Daredevil and The Punisher, and $1.6 million for Widows, on top of Brand New Day and the Accountant sequel.

6. Florence Pugh — Estimated $10 Million to $15 Million

Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova has become one of Marvel’s more reliable scene stealers since Black Widow, and her reported per film fees tell an interesting story: a relatively modest $300,000 for Dune: Part Two and $1 million for Oppenheimer, against separate reporting suggesting an eight figure cumulative deal covering her original Black Widow contract and Thunderbolts together. Add in her Valentino and Tiffany & Co. ambassador deals, both confirmed relationships without public fee figures, and her income clearly extends well past acting alone.

5. Tom Holland — Estimated $20 Million to $25 Million

Tom Holland has played Peter Parker for a decade now, a run he reflected on in official behind the scenes footage for Brand New Day, and his salary has grown right alongside the character’s importance to Marvel. He reportedly earned around $250,000 for his debut in Captain America: Civil War, and a detailed breakdown of his Spider-Man paychecks shows that figure climbing to a reported $20 million for this film alone. Speaking with the Associated Press at the premiere, he named “selflessness” as his favorite thing about playing Peter Parker.

4. Marisa Tomei — Estimated $20 Million to $26 Million

Marisa Tomei has played Aunt May across five Marvel films now, building on a career that already included an Oscar win for My Cousin Vinny in 1992, for which she was reportedly paid $250,000. Her cumulative MCU pay is estimated at somewhere between $1 million and $3 million across her appearances, though no studio has broken down the per film figures. Layer in three decades of prestige film work, from In the Bedroom to The Wrestler, plus a steady Broadway and off-Broadway presence, and multiple sources now converge on a net worth close to $25 million.

3. Naomi Watts — Estimated $28 Million to $38 Million

Naomi Watts takes on E.V., an AI character voiced rather than played on screen, a smaller role that sits oddly against the scale of her actual career. Her best documented single payday remains $5 million for 2005’s King Kong, and a 2009 Forbes analysis of actress “value for money” specifically praised her for keeping her fees modest relative to the box office her films returned, calling her the best return on investment actress on their list at the time. With no major salary figures reported since, but a body of work spanning Mulholland Drive, The Impossible, and years of TV work like The Watcher, her net worth is realistically in this range.

2. Mark Ruffalo — Estimated $35 Million to $45 Million

Mark Ruffalo has played Bruce Banner since 2012’s The Avengers, and his salary growth across that run is one of the more transparent examples in this cast. He reportedly earned around $3 million for that first Avengers film, a number that climbed to a reported $15 million by Avengers: Endgame in 2019, and his rate has presumably only grown since through Brand New Day and his other producing and TV credits. That steady, well reported climb across more than a decade in the role supports a net worth in this range.

1. Zendaya — Estimated $40 Million to $50 Million

Zendaya closes out this list, and it isn’t close. Speaking with the Associated Press on the red carpet, she talked about how MJ’s press tour wardrobe has evolved alongside the character and teased an upcoming role as Ronnie Spector in a planned biopic, a sign of just how much she’s diversified beyond the Spider-Man franchise. Her Euphoria pay reportedly runs around $1 million per episode, with an executive producer credit on top, and she’s said to have earned roughly $10 million for Challengers alone, described in one report as five times her paycheck for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Add in long running brand deals with Lancôme, Valentino, Bulgari, and Louis Vuitton, and her net worth realistically lands at the top of this cast.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who has the highest net worth in the Spider-Man: Brand New Day cast?

Zendaya tops the list, with an estimated net worth between $40 million and $50 million, built from her Euphoria salary, major film paydays like Challengers, and long running brand partnerships.

Is J.K. Simmons in Spider-Man: Brand New Day?

No. Despite months of fan speculation about a J. Jonah Jameson appearance, Simmons has said on record that he isn’t part of this film.

Is Charlie Cox’s Daredevil in the movie?

No. Cox has denied appearing in Brand New Day despite persistent rumors tying his Daredevil to the film.

How many actors are in the cast of Spider-Man: Brand New Day?

This list covers 19 credited cast members. A 20th, Olivia Booth-Ford, who plays Jean Grey’s sister Sara, was left off since she’s a minor with no public net worth information available.