After a quick foray into comedy with this summer’s The Other Guys , Mark Wahlberg returns to drama this month in The Fighter . He stars as Mickey Ward, a tough-luck Boston boxer with a domineering mother/manager (Melissa Leo) and a brother/trainer (Christian Bale) who once knocked down Sugar Ray Leonard before becoming a crackhead. Alert Oscar! But how did Wahlberg become an Academy Award-nominated actor from his roots as a hip-hop artist who lead the infamous Funky Bunch? You can always trace a direct line through a handful of roles (not necessarily his best roles, mind you) to illustrate what led to an star’s current success, and with Wahlberg, that line might be as high as it’s ever been. Let’s look at eight performances that trace the evolution of one Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg.
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8 Milestones in the Evolution of Mark Wahlberg
