Article: Mark Wahlberg - the artist formerly known as Marky Mark. (actor)(Interview)

Mark Wahlberg has only four major movies out--Renaissance Man (1994), The Basketball Diaries(1995), Fear(1996), and this spring's Traveller--and he already has a Best Actor trophy. Okay, so it wasn't actually awarded to him but to his character Dirk Diggler in this month's Boogie Nights, a drama set in the world of '70s porn. But that doesn't mean Mark can't cherish it. "It says Best Actor in an Adult Film," Wahlberg, 25, says excitedly. "Dirk makes this big dramatic speech about how he's going to dedicate his life to making better films." Its a familiar sentiment for Wahlberg, who's happily shedding his bad-boy rapper/ underwear-model image to do just that. Don't be ...

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