
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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Known For

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

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

The Departed

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie

Scoob!

Date Night

Uncharted

The Lovely Bones

We Own the Night

Daddy's Home

All the Money in the World

Uncharted 2

Me Time

2 Guns

The Basketball Diaries

The Perfect Storm

Daddy's Home 2

The Other Guys

The Fighter

The Happening

Planet of the Apes

Instant Family

The Italian Job

Boogie Nights

Flight Risk

The Corruptor

The Gambler

The Union

Spenser Confidential 2

Fear

Invincible

Deepwater Horizon

Arthur the King

Wahl Street

Ted

Father Stu

The Family Plan

Spenser Confidential

Four Brothers

Max Payne

The Big Hit

Transformers: The Last Knight

Broken City

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Shooter

Patriots Day

Lone Survivor

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward

Infinite

Pain & Gain

Ted 2

Contraband
Production Credits

Arthur the King

Deepwater Horizon

The Family Plan

McMillion$

We Own the Night

How to Make It in America

The Gambler

Boardwalk Empire

Spenser Confidential

Lone Survivor

Spy High

Instant Family

Contraband

Prisoners

Broken City

Shooter

The Fighter

In Treatment

Wahl Street

Infinite

The Murders at Starved Rock

The Union

Patriots Day

Father Stu

Entourage
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