Mark Wahlberg

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, businessman and former model and rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, as frontman with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, releasing the albums Music for the People and You Gotta Believe. Wahlberg later transitioned to acting, appearing in films such as the drama Boogie Nights and the satirical war comedydrama Three Kings during the 1990s. In the 2000s, he starred in the biographical disaster drama The Perfect Storm, the sciencefiction film Planet of the Apes and the Martin Scorsesedirected neonoir crime drama The Departed. In the 2010s, he starred in the actioncomedy The Other Guys alongside Will Ferrell, the biographical sports drama The Fighter, the comedy Ted, the war film Lone Survivor and the sciencefiction action film Transformers Age of Extinction.

Wahlberg was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children, including actor Robert and actorsinger Donnie. His mother, Alma Elaine , was a bank clerk and a nurses aide, and his father, Donald E. Wahlberg, Sr., was a delivery driver. His parents divorced in 1982, and from that moment, he divided his time between them. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother is of Irish, English, and French Canadian ancestry. Maternally, Wahlberg is distantly related to author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wahlberg had a Roman Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School on Newbury Street in Boston. He received his high school diploma in June 2013.

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