Mark Wahlberg

By his own admission, actor Mark Wahlberg went from a jailed Boston street thug to a respected, legitimate actor in less than a decade, with attention-grabbing stops as a rapper and underwear model along the way. He received his first acting kudos for his starring role as ambitious porn star Dirk Diggler in “Boogie Nights” (1997), but proving he was no one-hit-wonder, went on to deliver memorable performances in “Three Kings” (1999), “Four Brothers” (2004) and “The Departed” (2006), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Wahlberg also made his mark as co-creator