Mark Wahlberg is an actor and singer who rose to fame from a life of childhood crime and drug abuse
Mark Wahlberg
@Actors, Family and Childhood
Jun 5, 1971
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: June 5, 1971
- Nationality: American
- Famous: School Dropouts, Film & Theater Personalities, Actors, Singers
- City/State: Boston, Massachusetts
- Spouses: Rhea Durham
- Siblings: Donnie Wahlberg, Paul Wahlberg, Robert Wahlberg
- Known as: Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg born at
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S
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Birth Place
He has been in a relationship with model Rhea Durham since 2001 and married her in 2009. The couple has four children.
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Personal Life
He was born as the youngest of nine siblings to Alma Elaine, a bank clerk, and Donald Wahlberg, a delivery driver. His parents divorced when he was 11.
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Childhood & Early Life
He attended Copley Square High School but dropped out long before graduation. He started doing drugs while he was still very young and became involved in street violence even before he turned 13. His violence increased with time and he brutally attacked a Vietnamese man with a wooden stick when he was 16 and was charged with attempted murder.
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Childhood & Early Life
He was jailed and as he spent time in state prison at Boston’s Deer Island House of Correction he realized that he was wasting his life. He decided to break free from his criminal past and make a fresh start as a respectable citizen of the society.
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Childhood & Early Life
His elder brother Donnie had a successful boy band called New Kids on the Block. Mark was one of the original members but he soon quit to form his own band. He formed the hip hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch along with his friends Scott, Hector, Terry and Anthony.
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Career
The group released their debut album ‘Music for the People’ in 1991. The album contained the song ‘Good Vibrations’ which peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was produced by his brother Donnie.
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Boosted by the success of their debut, the band quickly released its next album ‘You Gotta Believe’ in 1992. However, this album was not successful and the band broke up.
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He made a transition to acting with the 1993 television movie ‘The Substitute’. In 1994, he appeared as Private Tommy Lee Haywood with Danny DeVito in the comedy film ‘Renaissance Man’. He played a villain David McCall in the thriller ‘Fear’ in 1996.
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Career
In the 1997 movie ‘Boogie Nights’, he portrayed Eddie Adams, a popular adult film star who rises to fame during the Golden Age of adult films and then falls from glory later on. The film was a big critical as well as commercial hit.
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He was part of the supporting cast of the highly acclaimed crime thriller ‘The Departed’ in which he played the role of a staff sergeant. He won an Academy award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor for this role.
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Major Works
His portrayal of the welterweight boxer Micky Ward in the biographical sports drama ‘The Fighter’ was critically appreciated. He won several awards and accolades for his convincing depiction of the boxer and for bringing the character alive on screen.
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Major Works