
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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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

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie

The Departed

Date Night

Scoob!

2 Guns

Daddy's Home

Daddy's Home 2

Uncharted 2

All the Money in the World

Me Time

We Own the Night

The Other Guys

The Perfect Storm

Uncharted

The Lovely Bones

The Basketball Diaries

The Italian Job

Wahl Street

Ted

Broken City

Arthur the King

Patriots Day

Spenser Confidential

Max Payne

Flight Risk

Pain & Gain

Invincible

Spenser Confidential 2

Boogie Nights

Lone Survivor

The Fighter

Contraband

Instant Family

Ted 2

Deepwater Horizon

The Union

The Happening

Planet of the Apes

The Corruptor

Four Brothers

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward

The Family Plan

Fear

Shooter

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Father Stu

Infinite

The Gambler

The Big Hit

Transformers: The Last Knight
Production Credits

Contraband

In Treatment

Deepwater Horizon

Instant Family

McMillion$

Spy High

Arthur the King

Father Stu

We Own the Night

The Family Plan

How to Make It in America

Shooter

The Gambler

Lone Survivor

Patriots Day

The Union

Boardwalk Empire

Entourage

Infinite

Spenser Confidential

Prisoners

The Murders at Starved Rock

The Fighter

Wahl Street

Broken City
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