Sexiest Man Alive Jonathan Bailey Becomes 2025’s Highest-Grossing Box Office Star (And Hollywood & Fans Can’t Get Enough Of His Record-Breaking Year)

Jonathan Bailey has proven to be the most profitable star of 2025, leading this year’s box office ranking with just two releases to his name. The English actor first shot to the top of the standings when Wicked: For Good roared out of the gate over the weekend with a $150 million domestic opening and $226 million global bow. The juggernaut film’s impressive start immediately catapulted Bailey to the top of the yearly rankings.

Jurassic World: Rebirth had previously earned the actor plenty of box office attention back in the summer, when the blockbuster became one of the year’s highest global grossers with $339.6 million in domestic earnings and $868.8 million worldwide. While it has since been outpaced in total worldwide ticket sales by a number of other films (including A Minecraft Movie, Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch, and the Chinese-produced Ne Zha 2), the combined box office draw from Bailey’s only two film credits this year has outpaced every other actor’s.

Bailey takes on the role of Fiyero in Wicked: For Good, finding himself caught up in the intensifying feud between Elphaba and Glinda as the Wizard grows increasingly more malevolent in the prequel’s second act. Sharing the screen with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the actor has received plenty of attention for his role, most recently being named PEOPLE’s 2025 Sexiest Man Alive earlier this month. In a statement to PEOPLE about the title, he called it a “completely absurd” yet flattering “honor.”

Bailey has also recently drawn the public’s attention with a statement about potentially withdrawing from acting to give more time to The Shameless Fund, the LGBTQ+ charity he started a few years ago. While he assured fans that he won’t be “vanishing into thin air in 2026,” he did confirm that no movie or television projects are currently in the works for the next calendar year, with the obvious exception of his Bridgerton return when filming on the series’ third season resumes in January.

Wicked: For Good is now in theaters, while Jurassic World: Rebirth is streaming on Peacock, so it appears as though 2025 will remain all about Jonathan Bailey until the calendar year is over. As it stands, the actor’s historic box office performance shows no signs of slowing either.