
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

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie

The Departed

Scoob!

Date Night

The Lovely Bones

Uncharted

We Own the Night

2 Guns

The Other Guys

All the Money in the World

Ted: The Animated Series

The Perfect Storm

Daddy's Home 2

Me Time

Uncharted 2

The Basketball Diaries

Daddy's Home

Play Dirty

Four Brothers

The Italian Job

Shooter

Max Payne

Wahl Street

The Family Plan

The Big Hit

Ted

Fear

The Fighter

Invincible

The Corruptor

Transformers: The Last Knight

Broken City

Flight Risk

Instant Family

Contraband

Deepwater Horizon

Lone Survivor

Spenser Confidential

Infinite

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Pain & Gain

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Spenser Confidential 2

Weekend Warriors

Patriots Day

Planet of the Apes

Ted 2

The Gambler

The Happening

The Union

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward

Boogie Nights

Arthur the King

Father Stu
Production Credits

Lone Survivor

Father Stu

Arthur the King

Entourage

The Gambler

The Family Plan

McMillion$

Wahl Street

Spenser Confidential

Spy High

Instant Family

Shooter

Entourage

Patriots Day

The Murders at Starved Rock

Broken City

Infinite

We Own the Night

The Union

The Fighter

Boardwalk Empire

How to Make It in America

Contraband

In Treatment

Deepwater Horizon

Prisoners

Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel
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