"Transformers: The Last Knight" star Mark Wahlberg earned more than any other actor last year. Forbes magazine's annual ranking highlights the outrageous disparity between male and female Hollywood stars.
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Mark Wahlberg is the world's highest-paid actor, according to numbers published by Forbes magazine on Tuesday. He is estimated to have earned $68 million (58 million euros) in the last 12 months by starring in "Transformers: The Last Knight" and "Daddy's Home 2," to be released in November.
Wahlberg is followed by "Fast and Furious" star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ($65 million), who topped the ranking last year, while Vin Diesel ("The Fate of the Furious") comes in third, with $54.5 million.
Mark Wahlberg started his career at the beginning of the 1990s as rapper Marky Mark and as a model for Calvin Klein. Some of his hit films include "The Departed," "Max Payne" and "Ted." This year, he starred in the fifth "Transformers" installment in the role of engineer Cade Yeager.
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Huge pay inequality
Hollywood's gender pay gap was once again highlighted by the Forbes list.
A previously published ranking of the highest-paid actresses revealed that the world's highest-earning female star, Emma Stone ("La La Land"), made less than half as much as Wahlberg, with $26 million, and less than the 14 highest-paid male actors. Stone has been vocal in speaking out against pay inequality.
The top 10 actors banked a cumulative $488.5 million - nearly three times the $172.5 million combined total of the 10 top scoring women, Forbes noted. Roles in superhero and action blockbusters earning big at the box office remain the best-paid jobs in Hollywood - but few of those parts are given to women.
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5 actors with German accents who've made it big in Hollywood
A German or Austrian accent doesn't necessarily have to stand in the way of a successful career in the movie industry. These five actors have made it big in Hollywood - despite their accents, or perhaps because of them.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Few German-language actors have been ridiculed for their accent as much as Arnold Schwarzenegger. In turn, he managed to market his accent like no other. Today, the Austria native and former California governor says he only pretends to have an accent, because it's what his audience expects.
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
He barely knew a word of English when he first moved to the US. That didn't matter much, because in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film "Night on Earth," he played a taxi Driver from eastern Germany who couldn't speak English. Armin Mueller-Stahl is good at accents - he can do Jiddish and Russian. But his English is still rather poor, he says - a fact that never harmed his career.
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Marlene Dietrich
Her English was far from perfect, but with charm and sex appeal, the German actress and singer succeeded in Hollywood. Though she worked hard at it, she never quite managed to lose her German accent. For her fans, however, how she spoke was part and parcel of the wicked appeal of the "Blue Angel."
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Jürgen Prochnow
His biggest success, the role of a submarine captain in "Das Boot," catapulted Prochnow all the way to Hollywood. Initially, acting in English was difficult for the stage actor, but in the end, his tenacity and fastidiousness garnered him numerous roles. He was often cast as the bad guy, including in "Air Force One" and "The English Patient."
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Christoph Waltz
In the role of Nazi Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds," he even overshadowed Brad Pitt. It garnered the Austrian actor his first Oscar and the hearts of Hollywood. Christoph Waltz is said to speak English with barely the trace of an accent - which hardly matters anymore, since the 59-year-old can pick and choose the roles he wants to play. He is also fluent in French.
