48 Characters Found in Pop Culture That Are Based on Real People

We love a good life-to-movie adaptation of an actor’s life, but a specific actor rarely has control over how their story is portrayed. Mark Wahlberg had the unique opportunity to have a show loosely based on his life when he became an executive producer of the HBO show Entourage.

The character Vincent Chase, played by Adrian Grenier, is directly based on Mark Wahlberg’s own experience with Hollywood. Much like Wahlberg’s early days, Chase experiences a sudden rise to fame and moves to Hollywood with his group of close friends. Entourage was originally going to be a documentary of sorts, but they changed it to fiction to make it more light-hearted.