Donnie Wahlberg

Donald Edmond Donnie Wahlberg, Jr. is an American singersongwriter, actor, record producer, and film producer. He is a founding member of the boy band New Kids on the Block. Outside of music, he has had featured roles in the Saw films, The Sixth Sense, Dreamcatcher, and Righteous Kill, also appearing in the World War II miniseries Band of Brothers. From 2002 to 2003, he starred in the crime drama Boomtown. He has been starring in the drama series Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck and Bridget Moynahan since 2010, and since 2014 is an executive producer of the TNT reality television show Bostons Finest. He was nominated for Choice Scream at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards for his work in the Saw films.

Wahlberg was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He is the eighth of nine children, with older siblings, Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, and Debbie , and younger brother, Mark, who began his entertainment career in the former rap group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He also has three halfsiblings from his fathers first marriage Donna, Scott, and Buddy. His mother, Alma Elaine , was a bank clerk and nurses aide, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Sr. was a teamster who worked as a delivery driver they divorced in 1982. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother is of Irish, English, and French Canadian descent. Maternally, he is distantly related to author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Source: Wikipedia