Mark Wahlberg
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1971-06-05
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mark Wahlberg
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Wahlberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Planet of the Apes
Jul 25, 2001
The Departed
Oct 04, 2006
The Perfect Storm
Jun 29, 2000
I ♥ Huckabees
Sep 10, 2004
Fear
Apr 12, 1996
We Own the Night
Oct 12, 2007
The Basketball Diaries
Apr 21, 1995
Boogie Nights
Oct 10, 1997
Three Kings
Sep 27, 1999
Shooter
Mar 22, 2007
The Lovely Bones
Dec 26, 2009
Invincible
Aug 25, 2006
Renaissance Man
Jun 03, 1994
Die 90er - Popwunder & Popsünden
Oct 10, 2004
The Happening
Jun 11, 2008
Four Brothers
Aug 11, 2005
The Big Hit
Apr 24, 1998
The Corruptor
Mar 12, 1999
Max Payne
Oct 15, 2008
Rock Star
Sep 04, 2001
The Other Guys
Aug 06, 2010
The Italian Job
May 30, 2003
The Truth About Charlie
Oct 25, 2002
Date Night
Apr 08, 2010
The Fighter
Dec 10, 2010
The Yards
Apr 27, 2000
Flight Risk
Jan 22, 2025
Ted
Jun 29, 2012
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Jun 25, 2014
Spenser Confidential 2
Contraband
Jan 12, 2012
Broken City
Jan 18, 2013
Pain & Gain
Apr 18, 2013
2 Guns
Aug 02, 2013
Lone Survivor
Dec 24, 2013
The Making of We Own the Night
Ted 2
Jun 25, 2015
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
Feb 13, 2007
Der Weg des Ruhms
Oct 15, 2011
Daddy's Home
Dec 25, 2015
The Substitute
Sep 22, 1993
Play Dirty
The Gambler
Dec 25, 2014
Mojave
Jan 22, 2016
Uncharted 2
The Family Plan
Dec 14, 2023
Deepwater Horizon
Sep 28, 2016
Evolution Within Extinction
Sep 30, 2014
Mile 22
Aug 16, 2018
Transformers: The Last Knight
Jun 16, 2017
Entourage
Jun 03, 2015
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
May 22, 2023
Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons
Apr 23, 2024
Patriots Day
Dec 12, 2016
Balls Up
Daddy's Home 2
Nov 09, 2017
Weekend Warriors
All the Money in the World
Dec 21, 2017
Traveller
Apr 18, 1997
T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie
Sep 30, 2014
Manny
Dec 31, 2014
Overnight
Jun 12, 2003
Instant Family
Nov 13, 2018
Spenser Confidential
Mar 06, 2020
Joe Bell
Sep 14, 2020
Scoob!
Jul 08, 2020
Infinite
Sep 09, 2021
Arthur the King
Mar 15, 2024
Uncharted
Feb 10, 2022
The Marky Mark Workout: Form... Focus... Fitness
Jan 01, 1993
The Invocation
Sep 01, 2010
Teen Vid II
Jan 01, 1991
Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward
Oct 19, 2013
The Union
Aug 15, 2024
Father Stu
Apr 13, 2022
kid 90
Mar 12, 2021
Me Time
Aug 26, 2022
The Family Plan 2
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Nov 12, 2024
By Any Means
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
Nightline
Mar 24, 1980
Today
Jan 14, 1952
The View
Aug 11, 1997
E! True Hollywood Story
Aug 21, 1996
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
The Early Show
Nov 01, 1999
Wahl Street
Apr 15, 2021
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
Entourage
Jul 18, 2004
Wahlburgers
Jan 22, 2014
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Flip It Like Disick
Aug 04, 2019
Top Gear
Oct 20, 2002
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Going Live!
Sep 26, 1987
Hart to Heart
Aug 05, 2021
Good Day Live
Sep 17, 2001
Honest Trailers
Feb 13, 2012
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Out All Night
Sep 19, 1992
Raw
Jan 11, 1993
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Jun 08, 2002
Kids' Choice Awards
Jan 18, 1987
The Defiant Ones
Jul 09, 2017
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Mar 23, 2018
Conan
Nov 08, 2010
Lie Detector
Mar 01, 2018