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Name
Mark Wahlberg

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1971-06-05 (55 years old)

Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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. 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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2001 Planet of the Apes as Captain Leo Davidson
2006 The Departed as Dignam
2000 The Perfect Storm as Bobby Shatford
2004 I ♥ Huckabees as Tommy Corn
1996 Fear as David McCall
2007 We Own the Night as Joseph Grusinsky
1995 The Basketball Diaries as Mickey
1997 Boogie Nights as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler
1999 Three Kings as Troy Barlow
2007 Shooter as Bob Lee Swagger
2009 The Lovely Bones as Jack Salmon
2006 Invincible as Vince Papale
1994 Renaissance Man as Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood
2004 Die 90er - Popwunder & Popsünden as Self
2008 The Happening as Elliot Moore
2005 Four Brothers as Bobby Mercer
1998 The Big Hit as Melvin Smiley
1999 The Corruptor as Danny Wallace
2008 Max Payne as Max Payne
2001 Rock Star as Chris 'Izzy' Cole
2010 The Other Guys as Detective Terry Hoitz
2003 The Italian Job as Charlie Croker
2002 The Truth About Charlie as Peter Joshua
2010 Date Night as Holbrooke
2010 The Fighter as Micky Ward
2000 The Yards as Leo Handler
2025 Flight Risk as Daryl Booth
2012 Ted as John Bennett
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction as Cade Yeager
Soon Spenser Confidential 2 as Spenser
2012 Contraband as Chris Farraday
2013 Broken City as Billy Taggart
2013 Pain & Gain as Daniel Lugo
2013 2 Guns as Michael 'Stig' Stigman
2013 Lone Survivor as Petty Officer First Class Marcus Luttrell
Soon The Making of We Own the Night as Self
2015 Ted 2 as John
2007 Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed' as Self
2011 Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame as Self (archive footage)
2015 Daddy's Home as Dusty Mayron
1993 The Substitute as Ryan Westerberg
2025 Play Dirty as Parker
2014 The Gambler as Jim Bennett
2016 Mojave as Norman
2023 The Family Plan as Dan Morgan
2016 Deepwater Horizon as Mike Williams
2014 Evolution Within Extinction as Self
2018 Mile 22 as James Silva
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight as Cade Yeager
2015 Entourage as Mark Wahlberg
2023 The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016 Patriots Day as Sgt. Tommy Saunders
2026 Balls Up as Brad
2017 Daddy's Home 2 as Dusty
Soon Weekend Warriors
2017 All the Money in the World as Fletcher Chase
1997 Traveller as Pat
2014 Manny
2003 Overnight as Self
2018 Instant Family as Pete Wagner
2020 Spenser Confidential as Spenser
2020 Joe Bell as Joe Bell
2020 Scoob! as Blue Falcon (voice)
2021 Infinite as Evan McCauley
2024 Arthur the King as Michael
2022 Uncharted as Victor 'Sully' Sullivan
1993 The Marky Mark Workout: Form... Focus... Fitness as Marky Mark
2010 The Invocation as Self
1991 Teen Vid II as Self
2013 Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward as Narrator (voice)
2024 The Union as Mike McKenna
2022 Father Stu as Father Stuart 'Stu' Long
2021 kid 90 as Self (voice)
2022 Me Time as Huck Dembo
2025 The Family Plan 2 as Dan Morgan
2024 Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands as Self (archive footage)
2026 By Any Means as Gregory Scarpa
Soon The Operator
Soon Six Billion Dollar Man as Steve Austin
Soon The Big Fix
2023 Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
2016 Rupture as Evan

1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
1980 Nightline ( 1 episode )
1952 Today ( 1 episode ) as Self
1997 The View ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 2 episodes )
1999 The Early Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2021 Wahl Street ( 16 episodes ) as Self
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 8 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1981 Entertainment Tonight ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2004 Entourage ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2014 Wahlburgers ( 96 episodes ) as Self
2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2019 Flip It Like Disick ( 1 episode ) as Self
2002 Top Gear ( 1 episode ) as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 5 episodes ) as Self
1987 Going Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
2021 Hart to Heart ( 1 episode ) as Self
2001 Good Day Live ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
1992 Out All Night ( 1 episode ) as Marky Mark
1993 Raw ( 1 episode )
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2002 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway ( 1 episode ) as Self
1987 Kids' Choice Awards ( 1 episode ) as Host
2017 The Defiant Ones ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
2018 GQ Presents: Iconic Characters ( 1 episode ) as Self
2010 Conan ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2026 TED: The Animated Series ( 8 episodes ) as John (voice)
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1992 MTV Movie & TV Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
1990 The Word ( 2 episodes )
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self (uncredited)

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