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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning American actor, former rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch was a hip-hop group led by Mark Wahlberg. Members included Scott Ross , Hector Barros , Duffy Culligan , Terry Yancey and Anthony Thomas ....
. He was named #1 on VH1
VH1

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's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90's.

in the Dorchester
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Dorchester is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester, Dorset in the England county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated....
 neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

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, he is the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert
Robert Wahlberg

Robert "Bob" Wahlberg is an American actor. He has appeared in such films as Southie , Mystic River , and The Departed.Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Wahlberg is one of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Mark Wahlberg, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg....
, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg
Donnie Wahlberg

Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. is an United States singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block and is the older brother of fellow actor/musician Mark Wahlberg....
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I can't focus on me forever. Sooner or later, I have to take a backseat to my family. I want to be there and need to be there.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

Yeah, I have one...and let me tell you...The Bitches Like to SUCK IT!.

In reference to having a third nipple

Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.

His reaction to his Oscar nomination for The Departed (2006))





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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning American actor, former rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch was a hip-hop group led by Mark Wahlberg. Members included Scott Ross , Hector Barros , Duffy Culligan , Terry Yancey and Anthony Thomas ....
. He was named #1 on VH1
VH1

VH1 is an United States cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in television, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slighter older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music....
's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90's.

Life and career


Early life

Born in the Dorchester
Dorchester, Massachusetts

Dorchester is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester, Dorset in the England county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated....
 neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
, he is the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert
Robert Wahlberg

Robert "Bob" Wahlberg is an American actor. He has appeared in such films as Southie , Mystic River , and The Departed.Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Wahlberg is one of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Mark Wahlberg, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg....
, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg
Donnie Wahlberg

Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. is an United States singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block and is the older brother of fellow actor/musician Mark Wahlberg....
. His mother, Alma Elaine (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 McPeck), was a bank clerk and nurse's aide, and his father, Donald E. Wahlberg, was a Teamster
Teamsters

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a trade union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of several local and regional locals of teamsters, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar worker and white-collar worker workers in both the public sector and private sectors....
 who worked as a delivery driver; the two divorced in 1982. Wahlberg had a Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 upbringing and attended Copley Square High School (but never graduated) on Newbury Street
Newbury Street (Boston)

Newbury Street is located in the Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts area of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. It runs roughly east-to-west, from the Public Garden to Massachusetts Avenue where there is a entrance to the Mass Pike westbound....
 in Copley Square
Copley Square

Copley Square, named for the American portraitist John Singleton Copley , is a Town square located in the Back Bay, Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
 in Boston. The campus now houses Muriel Snowden International School.

As a teenager, Wahlberg was implicated in several acts of violence and vandalism. At fifteen, he was amongst a group who threw rocks at a group of African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
 teenagers on a field trip
Field trip

A field trip is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment.The purpose of the trip is usually observation for education, non-experimental research or to provide students with experiences outside their everyday activities....
 while shouting racial epithets; the rocks hit their targets and caused several injuries. The following year, Wahlberg robbed a pharmacy while he was under the influence of PCP
Phencyclidine

Phencyclidine , also known as angel dust, is a dissociative drug formerly used as an anesthesia agent, exhibiting hallucinogenic and neurotoxic effects....
. During the commission of the crime, he again used racial epithets. He knocked one middle aged Vietnamese man unconscious and permanently blinded another in one eye before he was arrested by the police. Wahlberg was tried as an adult and charged for attempted murder
Attempted murder

In English criminal law, attempted murder is the crime of more than merely preparing to commit unlawful homicide and at the same time having a intention to cause the death of human being under the Queen's Peace....
. Pleading guilty to the lesser charge of assault, he was sentenced to two years in jail at Boston's Deer Island
Deer Island (Massachusetts)

Deer Island is part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Although still an island by name, Deer Island has in fact been connected to the mainland since the former Shirley Gut channel, which once separated the island from the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts, was filled in by the New England Hurricane of 1938....
 House of Correction, of which he served 45 days. In yet another incident, the 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack.

Music career

Wahlberg first came to fame as the younger brother of Donnie Wahlberg
Donnie Wahlberg

Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. is an United States singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block and is the older brother of fellow actor/musician Mark Wahlberg....
 of the successful 1980s and 1990s boy band
Boy band

A boy band, written in some countries boys band or boy's band, is a type of pop music band featuring several young male singers. The members are generally expected to perform as dancers as well, often executing highly choreographed sequences to their own music....
 New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
. Mark, at age thirteen, had been one of the group's original members, along with Donnie, Danny Wood
Danny Wood

Daniel William Wood Jr. is a singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. He is also a member of the "original" boy band New Kids on the Block and also serves as one of the key choreographers....
, Jordan Knight
Jordan Knight

Jordan Knight is an United States singer-songwriter best known as a singer in the boy band, New Kids on the Block , and actor which rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s....
, and Jonathan Knight
Jonathan Knight

Jonathan Rashleigh Knight is an American singer. Along with his younger brother Jordan Knight he is part of the musical band New Kids on the Block ....
. Uninterested in the group's bubblegum pop
Bubblegum pop

Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music whose classic period ran from 1967 to 1972. The chief characteristics of the genre are that it is pop music contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens, is produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers, using faceless singers and has an intangible, upbeat "bubblegum" sound....
 and squeaky-clean image, however, he soon quit. It was his departure that eventually allowed Joe McIntyre to take his place as the fifth member of the group.

Wahlberg began recording as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch was a hip-hop group led by Mark Wahlberg. Members included Scott Ross , Hector Barros , Duffy Culligan , Terry Yancey and Anthony Thomas ....
, earning a hit with "Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations (Marky Mark song)

"Good Vibrations" is a 1991 dance music song by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch from the album Music for the People , and was released at the end of 1991....
" from the album Music for the People. The record was produced by brother Donnie and later hit #1 on The Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
, later becoming certified as a Platinum single. In the video, widely broadcast on music video channels, Mark was shown boxing, lifting weights and showing off his bare, well-muscled torso. The second single, "Wildside," peaked at #5 on Billboards Hot Singles Sales chart and at #10 on The Billboard Hot 100. It was certified as a Gold single. Marky Mark opened for the New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
 during their last tour. The second Marky Mark LP, You Gotta Believe, wasn't as successful as the prior, yielding only a minor hit single in the title track. Wahlberg later collaborated with reggae / ragga singer Prince Ital Joe
Prince Ital Joe

Joe Paquette , better known as Prince Ital Joe, was a Dominican-United States reggae musician best known for his collaborations with Mark Wahlberg....
. The project combined rap and ragga vocals with strong eurodance music (as in the singles Happy People, United, Life in the Streets, and Babylon) courtesy of Frank Peterson and Alex Christensen as producers.

He briefly became embroiled in controversy when he appeared to endorse the homophobic comments made by Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks

Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall/Ragga recording artist.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slackness' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' de riddim"....
 when they appeared as guests on the British chat show
Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show talk show host....
 The Word
The Word (TV series)

The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.Its presenters included Mancunian radio presenter Terry Christian, comedian Mark Lamarr, Dani Behr, Katie Puckrik, Alan Connor, Amanda de Cadenet and "Hufty"....
.

Mark's cocky, street-wise persona contributed to his fame. During concert performances, he was known for stripping to a pair of white briefs, gyrating his hips and rubbing his crotch. In the dedication of his 1992 book Marky Mark, co-authored with photographer Lynn Goldsmith, Wahlberg says in the preface that "I wanna dedicate this book to my cock".

Advertising career

Wahlberg is known for his impressive physique
Physical attractiveness

Physical attractiveness is the perception of the physical traits of an individual human person as pleasing or beauty. It can include various implications, such as sexual attractiveness and physique....
. He first displayed it in the Good Vibrations music video and most prominently in a series of underwear ads for Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein

Calvin Richard Klein is an United States fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc.In addition to clothing, Calvin Klein also gave his name to a range of perfumes, including CK One and CK Be , now owned by Coty Inc....
 shot by Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts

Herbert Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek art....
, following it with Calvin Klein television ads. In 1992 the Calvin Klein billboard in New York's Times Square
Times Square

Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, a borough of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd Street to West 47th Street s....
 featured Wahlberg exclusively. Magazine and television promotions would sometimes feature Mark exclusively or accompanied by model Kate Moss
Kate Moss

Katherine "Kate" Ann Moss is an England Model . She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is known for her waifish figure, uncommonly short height for a fashion model, and appearances in many advertising campaigns....
. Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an United States portrait Photography whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject....
 shot a famous session of Mark Wahlberg in underwear for Vanity Fairs
Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American magazine of culture, fashion, and politics published by Cond? Nast Publications....
 annual Hall of Fame issue. He made a workout video titled
The Marky Mark Workout: Form... Focus... Fitness (ISBN 1-55510-910-1). Although Wahlberg made several sexual references in the video, it was passed as exempt from classification because he was able to disguise them with hip hop slang. Notably, he says to a female participant before doing an exercise, "If I get diesel (muscular), maybe I'll get some skins" (a reference to the labia). He says "I can't get no coochie (a reference to a woman's vagina) without no Gucci
Gucci

The House of Gucci, better known simply as Gucci, is an iconic Italy fashion design and leather goods label. It was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence in 1921....
", which was a phrase that Mark heard from a toilet attendant during his visit to London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

Film career

Wahlberg then began an acting career, making his debut in the 1993 TV movie
The Substitute. His big screen debut came the next year, with the Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael "Danny-Fanny" DeVito, Jr. is an United States actor, film director and film producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular American Broadcasting Company and NBC television television program Taxi ....
 feature
Renaissance Man. A basketball fanatic, he caught the attention of critics after appearing in The Basketball Diaries
The Basketball Diaries (film)

The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 in film drama film based on the The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll. The film features original music by Red Hot Chili Peppers' bass player, Flea ....
in 1995, playing the role of Mickey alongside Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor, film producer whose career rose with his role in the television sit-com Growing Pains and quickly moved to films....
, in a film adaptation of the Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll is an author, poet, autobiography, and punk rock musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll....
 book of the same name. He also starred in the 1996 James Foley
James Foley

James Foley is an United States film director and screenwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York....
 thriller
Fear
Fear (film)

Fear is a 1996 in film Thriller directed by James Foley, starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. The film also features Amy Brenneman, William Petersen and Alyssa Milano....
.

He earned many positive reviews after successful movies like
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights is a United States drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the screenplay focuses on a young nightclub Dishwashing who becomes the popular star of pornographic films and finds himself slowly descending into a nightmare of drug abuse when his fame...
as Dirk Diggler, Three Kings
Three Kings (film)

Three Kings is a 1999 in film comedy-drama war film written and directed by David O. Russell from a story by John Ridley about a gold heist in the style of Kelly's Heroes....
, The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm (film)

The Perfect Storm is a 2000 film adapted from the The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and features George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C....
, The Italian Job
The Italian Job (2003 film)

The Italian Job is a 2003 in film American heist film directed by F. Gary Gray. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham, Mos Def and Donald Sutherland....
, and Four Brothers
Four Brothers (film)

Four Brothers is an Action film crime film directed by John Singleton. The movie stars Tyrese Gibson, Andre 3000, Mark Wahlberg, and Garrett Hedlund....
. His performance in I ? Huckabees was voted best supporting performance of the year in the 2004 Village Voice
The Village Voice

The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in New York City, United States featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City....
Critics Poll. Wahlberg was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)

Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 in film remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist film Ocean's Eleven . The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble cast....
; Matt Damon
Matt Damon

Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor and philanthropist. He won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his screenwriting in Good Will Hunting, and was nominated for his lead performance in the same film....
 played the role instead. The two later worked together in
The Departed
The Departed

The Departed is a Cinema of the United States crime film-thriller film remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs....
. Wahlberg was also considered for a role in the film Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States romance film-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the Western United States from 1963 to 1983....
. It was originally intended to star him and Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as "Leaf Phoenix", is a Puerto Rico film actor, musician, and occasional rapper. Born in Puerto Rico, he was raised in the continental United States, Mexico, and South America, due to his family's nomadic lifestyle....
, but Wahlberg was uncomfortable with the film's sex scenes and his role ultimately went to Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten....
.

Wahlberg starred in the American football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
 drama
Invincible
Invincible (2006 film)

Invincible is a 2006 in film family film directed by Ericson Core set in 1976. It is based on the true story of Vince Papale, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1976 NFL season-1978 NFL season....
, based on the true story of bartender-turned-Philadelphia Eagle
Philadelphia Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. They are members of the NFC East of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
 Vince Papale
Vince Papale

Vincent Francis Papale is a former professional American football player. He played three seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League following two seasons with the Philadelphia Bell of the World Football League....
. He is also the executive producer
Executive producer

The title of executive producer , or executive in charge of production, typically describes a film producer, television producer, radio producer, record producer, or similar Stakeholder who doesn't participate in the technical operations of the production process, but who is still responsible for the success of a project....
 of the HBO series
Entourage
Entourage (TV series)

Entourage is an HBO original series created by Doug Ellin that chronicles the rise of Vincent Chase ? a young A-list movie star ? and his childhood friends from Queens, New York City as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California....
, which is loosely based on his experiences in Hollywood. He also appeared as a foul-mouthed Massachusetts State Police
Massachusetts State Police

The Massachusetts State Police is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Public Safety responsible for criminal law enforcement and traffic vehicle regulation across the state....
 detective in Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
's critically acclaimed thriller
The Departed
The Departed

The Departed is a Cinema of the United States crime film-thriller film remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs....
in 2006, for which he won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor

The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor is an annual film award given by the National Society of Film Critics.The awards was given for the first time in 1968 in film ....
 and netted him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

Wahlberg has confirmed that he was approached to star in a sequel to
The Departed, but it is still early in development. The sequel would reportedly revolve around the Staff Sergeant played by Wahlberg.

To prepare for his role in
Shooter, Wahlberg attended long-range shooting training at Front Sight Firearms Training Institute
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute

Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, also known as Front Sight, is a privately owned and operated facility for training people how to safely operate firearms in both recreational and self-defense settings, also referred to as "comfort of skill at arms"....
 near Pahrump, Nevada
Pahrump, Nevada

Pahrump is a census-designated place in Nye County, Nevada, Nevada, United States. The population was 24,631 as of the United States Census 2000, making it by far the largest settlement in the county....
, and was able to hit a target at 2000 yards on his first day, a feat which took his instructor about six months to achieve. He has said in a number of interviews that he will retire at the age of 40 to concentrate on parenthood and professional golf
Professional golf

For information about professional golf see:*Professional golfer, which describes the various branches of the profession.*Professional golf tours, which covers elite professional competitive golf and links to more detailed articles about each tour....
. However, in early 2007 he indicated that the latter was no longer the plan as "his golf game is horrible". He stars as Jack Salmon in Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson

Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....
's film of
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones (film)

The Lovely Bones is a film adaptation of the The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, set for release on December 11, 2009. The film was directed by Peter Jackson and stars actress Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon, with Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg as her parents, Susan Sarandon as her grandmother and Stanley Tucci as George Harvey, her murderer....
. In 2007 he starred opposite Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as "Leaf Phoenix", is a Puerto Rico film actor, musician, and occasional rapper. Born in Puerto Rico, he was raised in the continental United States, Mexico, and South America, due to his family's nomadic lifestyle....
 in
We Own the Night
We Own the Night

We Own the Night is a 2007 USA crime film drama film written and directed by James Gray and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall....
, a movie about a family of police officers in New York City. The movie also stars Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall is an United States film actor and Film director who has won an Academy Award, two Emmys, and four Golden Globes. He has appeared in films such as To Kill a Mockingbird , The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Natural , Network , THX 1138, MASH , The Great Santini,...
 and Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch , Training Day, Ghost Rider and We Own the Night....
.

Wahlberg will play drug kingpin Jon Roberts in the remake of the 2006 documentary
Cocaine Cowboys
Cocaine Cowboys

Cocaine Cowboys is a documentary film directed by Billy Corben and produced by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben through their Miami-based media studio rakontur....
, which chronicles the story of the largest cocaine trafficker in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, and has persuaded Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor, film producer whose career rose with his role in the television sit-com Growing Pains and quickly moved to films....
 to play the supporting role.

He starred in M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan

Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan , known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is a two-time Academy Award nominated India-born United States filmmaker and script writer of Major film studio, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that usually climax with a twist ending....
's
The Happening
The Happening (2008 film)

The Happening is a 2008 in film United States horror film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel....
as Eliot Moore, which opened in movie theatres on June 13, 2008. The same year, he played the title role in Max Payne
Max Payne (film)

Max Payne is a 2008 in film Cinema of the United States Film noir action film based on the 2001 Max Payne. The film was directed by John Moore and stars Mark Wahlberg in the title role....
, based on a video game of the same name
Max Payne

Max Payne is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winning third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001 in video gaming for Microsoft Windows....
. While promoting
Max Payne, Wahlberg became involved in a feud with Saturday Night Live
s Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg

Andrew David "Andy" Samberg is an American comedian, writer, and a member of the comedy troupe the Lonely Island. He is a repertory player on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend and Arrested Development , Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the The Daily Show, and the Late Show with David Letterman....
 and threatened to "crack that big (bleep)ing nose of his." Samberg had done an impression of Wahlberg in a Saturday Night Live skit titled "Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals." However, Wahlberg later appeared in a follow-up skit parodying both the original skit, Samberg's impression of Wahlberg, and his own threats to Samberg.

Video game career

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch had their own video game in the Marky Mark: Make My Video
Marky Mark: Make My Video

Marky Mark: Make My Video was created as a video game by Digital Pictures in 1992. The game was part of a series of games made of the same concept for various artists of this era....
 game series on the Sega Mega-CD
Sega Mega-CD

The is an add-on device for the Sega Mega Drive that was released in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and North America. In North America, it was renamed Sega CD, as the name Mega-CD bore no obvious associative meaning in that market where the console used the name "Genesis" instead of "Mega Drive" because of trademark reasons....
. Using various effects, the player is supposed to produce new versions of the videos to Marky Mark songs like "Good Vibrations" and "I Need Money". PC World.ca listed it as the eighth worst video game of all time. Recently, Wahlberg played the titular character in the Max Payne
Max Payne (film)

Max Payne is a 2008 in film Cinema of the United States Film noir action film based on the 2001 Max Payne. The film was directed by John Moore and stars Mark Wahlberg in the title role....
 film based on the popular video games
Max Payne

Max Payne is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winning third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001 in video gaming for Microsoft Windows....
. Even though he played the character in the film, he has stated that he is not going to play the games.

Personal life

Wahlberg is a practicing Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 and credits his faith and a priest from his childhood for helping him turn his life around and recognize the seriousness of his faith. He dated actresses Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster

'Jordana Brewster' is an American Actor, perhaps best known for her roles in The Fast and the Furious , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Faculty, D.E.B.S....
 and China Chow
China Chow

China Chow is a United Kingdom/Eurasian actress of mixed China, Japanese, Germany, and Scotland descent....
, his co-star in the film The Big Hit
The Big Hit

The Big Hit is a 1998 in film action film-comedy film film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Kirk Wong. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks, and Elliot Gould....
. Wahlberg and model Rhea Durham
Rhea Durham

Rhea Durham is an United States model . She was born in Lakeland, Florida, Florida. She has appeared on the cover of several major fashion magazines, including French Vogue , Italian Marie Claire, and British and American ELLE and has walked in the 2001 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show....
 have been together since 2001, and have three children, Ella Rae (born September 2, 2003), Michael (born March 22, 2006) and Brendan Joseph (born September 16, 2008). Though no formal announcement has been made, Wahlberg and Durham are rumored to have wedding plans for the summer of 2009. He has been heard in interviews and at The Happening premiere calling her his future wife and fiancée.

Actively involved in charity, Wahlberg established the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in May 2001 for the purpose of raising and distributing funds to youth service and enrichment programs.

Wahlberg has four tattoos done by various artists including Paul Timman
Paul Timman

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. The tattoos include Sylvester the cat with Tweety in his mouth on his ankle, a tattoo of his initials MW with Wahlberg through them on his upper right arm, and a Bob Marley
Bob Marley

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley Jamaican Order of Merit was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers ....
 tattoo with "One Love" on his upper left arm. The final tattoo, which Wahlberg holds as his most meaningful, is the rosary
Rosary

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 tattoed around his neck, with a crucifix and the words "In God I Trust" resting over his heart.

His father, a US Army veteran of the Korean War, died on February 14, 2008.

Discography


With the Funky Bunch

Year Album Chart Positions
US
Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
US Hip-Hop
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop music albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan....
Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers is a weekly albums chart introduced by Billboard in 1993 whose purpose is to highlight sales by new and developing musical recording artists....
1991 Music for the People
Music for the People (album)

Music for the People is the debut album of American Hip Hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. The album was a major success, reaching #1 on the independent albums chart, and #21 on the Billboard 200; thanks to the platinum selling hit single, "Good Vibrations "....
21 - 1
1992 You Gotta Believe
You Gotta Believe

You Gotta Believe is the 2nd and final album by American Hip Hop group, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Coming off the huge success of Music for the People , which reached #21 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum, the group rushed to studio to record a follow up....
67 66 -
"—" denotes the album failed to chart or not released


With Prince Ital Joe

Year Album
1994 Life in the Streets
Life in the Streets

Life in the Streets is the debut album by reggae musician, Prince Ital Joe and the third album by rapper, Mark Wahlberg. The album was released in 1994 for Ultraphonic Records and blended Prince Ital Joe's Reggae with Marky Mark's Pop rap....
1995 The Remix Album
The Remix Album (Prince Ital Joe album)

The Remix Album is the second and final album by rap/reggae duo, Prince Ital Joe and Mark Wahlberg. The album was released in 1995 for Ultraphonic Records and was a remix album featuring remixed from the duo's previous album, Life in the Streets, as well as a Marky Mark solo track, "No Mercy"....


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