Actress Mackenzie Phillips, daughter of rock musician John Phillips, starred in the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time and the Disney Channel’s So Weird. Earning more than $50,000 a week, Mackenzie already had a full-time job at the age of 12-years-old. However, the fame eventually took a toll on her personal life as she began drug abuse and was fired from the show in 1980.
Born and raised in New York City, at the early age of 16, De Niro dropped out of school to study acting with Stella Adler. He went to work with many acclaimed film directors like Brian DePalma, Elia Kazan, and Martin Scorsese. But it was his role in the 1974’s The Godfather: Part II that gained him recognition and popularity. It was this film that same him win his first Oscar. He went on to act in hits like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Deer Hunter.
Phillips struggled with drug abuse for over a decade. However, she sobered up and returned to acting in the late 1990s, starring in the Disney Channel series So Weird. She also made a guest appearance in several shows like ‘ER’, ‘7th Heaven’ and ‘Cold Case’ etc. In 2009 Phillips revealed incidents of incest and her long-term sexual relationship with her father on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The details of her accusations are present in her book High on Arrival published on the same year.
At a young age of 16 Wahlberg showed signs of being troubled by serving a 45-day jail term. However, he cleaned his act up and focused more on music with the help of his brother Donnie’s hip-hop arrangements and producing help, Marky Mark (his rap name) and his back-up deejay and dancers (dubbed “the Funky Bunch”) recorded a debut album. The album went platinum, selling over a million copies. He then moved is focus towards modeling by signing a two-year contract with Calvin Klein.
Wahlberg made his big screen debut in Penny Marshall’s lightweight Renaissance Man (1994) alongside Danny DeVito. He then went on to star in multiple hit films like The Basketball Diaries alongside Leonardo Dicaprio. He also gave noteworthy performances in movies like Fear (1996) and Traveller (1997), through which he cemented his artistic and commercial reputation. He has also served as an executive producer on such television shows as Entourage, In Treatment and Boardwalk Empire.
