
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 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Raw

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Graham Norton Show

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

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

Entourage

Renaissance Man

I ♥ Huckabees

The Departed

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie

Date Night

Scoob!

Daddy's Home

Uncharted

2 Guns

All the Money in the World

Me Time

The Other Guys

Daddy's Home 2

Ted: The Animated Series

Uncharted 2

The Basketball Diaries

The Lovely Bones

We Own the Night

The Perfect Storm

Contraband

Planet of the Apes

Lone Survivor

Play Dirty

Infinite

Ted

Deepwater Horizon

The Italian Job

Invincible

Father Stu

Spenser Confidential

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Four Brothers

Max Payne

Fear

Pain & Gain

Patriots Day

Shooter

Ted 2

The Gambler

The Happening

The Big Hit

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Family Plan

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward

The Union

Spenser Confidential 2

Weekend Warriors

Wahl Street

Instant Family

Boogie Nights

Broken City

Arthur the King

The Fighter

Transformers: The Last Knight

Flight Risk

The Corruptor
Production Credits

Spy High

Broken City

Prisoners

Shooter

Entourage

Father Stu

Patriots Day

Instant Family

The Murders at Starved Rock

Wahl Street

Infinite

Lone Survivor

Deepwater Horizon

We Own the Night

Boardwalk Empire

Arthur the King

How to Make It in America

Spenser Confidential

Contraband

The Union

Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel

The Family Plan

Entourage

The Fighter

McMillion$

The Gambler

In Treatment
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