
Mark Wahlberg
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Biography
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor and former rapper. His work as a leading man spans the comedy, drama, and action genres. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
Wahlberg was born in Boston. As a youth, he took part in a number of violent and racially motivated attacks. He gained fame as a member of the hip hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch in the 1990s, with whom he released the albums Music for the People (1991) and You Gotta Believe (1992). Wahlberg made his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and had his first starring role in Fear (1996). He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997).
In the early 2000s, Wahlberg ventured into big-budget action movies, such as The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), and The Italian Job (2003). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed (2006). Wahlberg was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for portraying Micky Ward in the sports drama biopic The Fighter (2010); as co-producer, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. During the 2010s, he landed successful comedy roles with The Other Guys (2010), Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015), Daddy's Home (2015), and Daddy's Home 2 (2017). Wahlberg also starred in the Transformers franchise films Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). He was the world's highest-paid actor in 2017.
Wahlberg served as executive producer of five HBO series: the comedy-drama Entourage (2004–2011), the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America (2010–2011) and Ballers (2015–2019), and the documentary McMillions (2020). He is co-owner of the Wahlburgers chain and co-starred in the reality TV series about it. Wahlberg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.
Known For

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Graham Norton Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Raw

Saturday Night Live

Today

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Entourage

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

E! True Hollywood Story

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Going Live!

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Top Gear

The Early Show

Out All Night

Band of Brothers

Kids' Choice Awards

The Defiant Ones

Entertainment Tonight

Flip It Like Disick

Hart to Heart

Entourage

Renaissance Man

I ♥ Huckabees

The Departed

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie

Date Night

Scoob!

Uncharted 2

Daddy's Home 2

Me Time

The Other Guys

The Basketball Diaries

The Lovely Bones

All the Money in the World

We Own the Night

Uncharted

2 Guns

Ted: The Animated Series

Daddy's Home

The Perfect Storm

Spenser Confidential

Boogie Nights

Lone Survivor

Deepwater Horizon

Play Dirty

Transformers: The Last Knight

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward

The Union

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Shooter

The Fighter

The Happening

Infinite

Fear

Wahl Street

Spenser Confidential 2

Instant Family

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Contraband

Invincible

Planet of the Apes

Ted

Ted 2

Patriots Day

Broken City

The Italian Job

The Gambler

Father Stu

Pain & Gain

Arthur the King

Max Payne

Flight Risk

The Corruptor

Weekend Warriors

The Family Plan

Four Brothers

The Big Hit
Production Credits

The Fighter

Prisoners

Lone Survivor

Father Stu

Patriots Day

Spy High

Spenser Confidential

Instant Family

The Gambler

Infinite

Contraband

Broken City

Entourage

Arthur the King

Wahl Street

Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel

We Own the Night

The Family Plan

Shooter

How to Make It in America

Boardwalk Empire

The Murders at Starved Rock

McMillion$

Deepwater Horizon

Entourage

The Union

In Treatment
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