
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.
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The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Raw

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Graham Norton Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Today

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Entourage

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

E! True Hollywood Story

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Honest Trailers

Top Gear

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Early Show

Out All Night

Band of Brothers

Kids' Choice Awards

The Defiant Ones

Entertainment Tonight

Flip It Like Disick

Hart to Heart

Renaissance Man

I ♥ Huckabees

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie

The Departed

Date Night

Scoob!

All the Money in the World

The Other Guys

The Basketball Diaries

Me Time

Daddy's Home 2

Uncharted

2 Guns

Uncharted 2

We Own the Night

The Lovely Bones

Daddy's Home

The Perfect Storm

The Fighter

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Contraband

Invincible

Lone Survivor

The Happening

Wahl Street

Patriots Day

Flight Risk

The Corruptor

Max Payne

Planet of the Apes

Four Brothers

Infinite

Ted

Arthur the King

The Union

Transformers: The Last Knight

Instant Family

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward

Deepwater Horizon

Fear

The Gambler

The Italian Job

Shooter

Spenser Confidential

The Family Plan

Father Stu

The Big Hit

Spenser Confidential 2

Ted 2

Broken City

Pain & Gain

Boogie Nights
Production Credits

The Union

Spenser Confidential

The Murders at Starved Rock

Prisoners

How to Make It in America

Boardwalk Empire

Contraband

Entourage

The Fighter

Infinite

Shooter

McMillion$

Deepwater Horizon

The Family Plan

In Treatment

Broken City

Patriots Day

The Gambler

Arthur the King

Instant Family

Wahl Street

Father Stu

Lone Survivor

Spy High

We Own the Night
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