Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge made £51,347 every day last year, according to her company accounts.
The company PMWB Limited turned over a mega £18.7million last year beating last year’s cash haul of just under £16million by more than £2.7 million.
The company now has reserves of £35.65million, meaning there was no problem in paying herself a handsome £1.7million dividend and a £50,000 salary.
On top of this she pays her five staff wages, salaries and benefits of almost £700,000, the paperwork just published reveals.
After all costs for the year were taken into account she was left with a profit of £9.4million for 2023, which meant a whopping £3million corporation tax bill – she had no trouble covering.
Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 39, made £51,347 every day last year, according to her company accounts
Much of the profits represent earnings from Phoebe’s starring role in Indiana Jones (pictured in the movie) and the Dial of Destiny which was a box office hit
Phoebe, 39, has also taken out a loan from the company of just over £5million but is following all the rules and repaying it at at HMRC approved interest rate.
Much of the profits represent earnings from Phoebe’s starring role in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny which was a box office hit.
She also has a deal with Amazon said to be worth £16million a year to work on Tomb Raider and other projects.
As well as her hit BBC sitcom Fleabag she was one of the creative forces behind Killing Eve which went on to be an international success and has run into four seasons.
Despite her success – she has denied rumours that she would direct the next Bond movie or take over from Harrison Ford in the next Indiana Jones film.
Phoebe has finally turned in her first script, for a big budget adaptation of the Tomb Raider video game – almost five years since she signed her first $60 million deal with Amazon to develop, write – and possibly star in – some blockbuster television series.
Amazon head Vernon Saunders says: ‘We’ve got great material. Phoebe is really good. We’re really excited.
‘We’ve got to find our Lara Croft, so that global-wide search will start sooner rather than later.’
The company now has reserves of £35.65million, meaning there was no problem in paying herself a handsome £1.7million dividend and a £50,000 salary (pictured in 2023)
On top of this she pays her five staff wages, salaries and benefits of almost £700,000, the paperwork just published reveals (pictured in Fleabag)
After all costs for the year were taken into account she was left with a profit of £9.4million for 2023, which meant a whopping £3million corporation tax bill – she had no trouble covering
As well as her hit BBC sitcom Fleabag she was one of the creative forces behind Killing Eve which went on to be an international success and has run into four seasons
Despite her success – she has denied rumours that she would direct the next Bond movie or take over from Harrison Ford in the next Indiana Jones film
The video game has already spawned a number of underwhelming screen adaptations.
Two best-forgotten movies in 2001 and 2003, starring Angelina Jolie and another in 2018 with Alicia Vikander playing Lara.
An animated series, featuring the voice of Hayley Atwell, is due out in October.
Phoebe is aware that her process hasn’t been exactly speedy, and she has taken on some acting in non-Amazon projects, notably Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny and the animation If, in the meantime.
Her deal was renewed in January 2023, which surprised some in Hollywood who felt that the streamer was ‘saving face’ by continuing with it.
However Phoebe explained last year: ‘They’ve been with me along this process, where I’m like: ‘I’m getting there, but I want it to be ****ing amazing.’
Her first project for Amazon was to have been writing and starring in their Mr & Mrs Smith TV series, alongside Donald Glover – which she walked away in September 2021.
She said in an interview last year: ‘I worked on that show for six months fully in heart and mind and really cared about it – still care about it. Creative collaboration is like a marriage, and some marriages don’t work out.’