
Mark Wahlberg
28 FOLLOWERS • 107 CREDITS • JUN 5, 1971 • 54
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.
Known For

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Raw

Saturday Night 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

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

The Departed

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie

Date Night

Scoob!

Daddy's Home

Daddy's Home 2

The Lovely Bones

The Other Guys

Me Time

Uncharted

We Own the Night

The Perfect Storm

Uncharted 2

Ted: The Animated Series

The Basketball Diaries

2 Guns

All the Money in the World

Flight Risk

Weekend Warriors

The Fighter

Invincible

The Happening

Arthur the King

Four Brothers

Instant Family

Max Payne

The Family Plan

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Planet of the Apes

Ted

Boogie Nights

Infinite

Transformers: The Last Knight

The Italian Job

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward

The Gambler

The Corruptor

Contraband

The Big Hit

Father Stu

Shooter

Deepwater Horizon

Pain & Gain

Broken City

The Union

Fear

Patriots Day

Spenser Confidential 2

Ted 2

Lone Survivor

Spenser Confidential

Wahl Street
Production Credits

McMillion$

Infinite

Arthur the King

The Union

The Fighter

How to Make It in America

Wahl Street

In Treatment

Prisoners

Broken City

Shooter

Patriots Day

Boardwalk Empire

The Murders at Starved Rock

We Own the Night

The Gambler

Spy High

Lone Survivor

Instant Family

The Family Plan

Deepwater Horizon

Entourage

Contraband

Father Stu

Spenser Confidential
Rivr: Track Original Shows & Movies
Streamline your streaming with Rivr, the ultimate app for tracking and discovering original shows and movies across all major platforms like Netflix, HBO, and more—never miss a release date or update again!
Get
