Mark Wahlberg is named world's highest-paid actor in 2017 with $68m...dethroning The Rock who brought in $65m

Mark Wahlberg soared to the top of the world's highest paid actors on an annual Forbes magazine list that highlighted a huge disparity between male and female Hollywood stars.

Wahlberg, 46, earned an estimated $68 million in 2017 thanks to his pay days for movies Daddy's Home 2 and Transformers: The Last Knight, according to the Forbes ranking released on Tuesday.

The rapper-turned-actor knocked 2016 leader Dwayne The Rock Johnson into second place, with estimated 2017 earnings of $65 million.

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Tops: Mark Wahlberg soared to the top of the world's highest paid actors on an annual Forbes magazine. He earned an estimated $68 million in 2017 thanks to his pay days for movies Daddy's Home 2 and Transformers: The Last Knight. Seen in June.

 

 

No 2: The rapper-turned-actor knocked 2016 leader Dwayne The Rock Johnson (pictured in Baywatch) into second place, with estimated 2017 earnings of $65 million.

 

TOP 20 FORBES 

 1. Mark Wahlberg ($68m)

2. The Rock ($65m)

3. Vin Diesel ($54.5m)

4. Adam Sandler ($50.5m)

5. Jackie Chan ($49m)

6. Robert Downey Jr ($48m)

7. Tom Cruise ($43m)

8. Shah Rukh Khan ($38m)

9. Salman Khan ($37m)

10. Akshay Kumar ($35.5m)

11. Chris Hemsworth ($31.5m)

12. Tom Hanks ($31m)

13. Samuel L Jackson ($30.5m)

14. Ryan Gosling ($29m)

15. Ryan Reynolds ($21.5m)

16. Matt Damon ($21m)

17. Jeremy Renner ($19m)

18. Chris Evans ($18m)

19. Chris Pratt ($17m)

20. Mark Ruffalo ($13m)

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