
Mark Wahlberg
Department: Acting
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. As a youth, he took part in a number of violent and racially motivated attacks. 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

Planet of the Apes
2001

The Departed
2006

The Perfect Storm
2000

I ♥ Huckabees
2004

Fear
1996

We Own the Night
2007

The Basketball Diaries
1995

Boogie Nights
1997

Three Kings
1999

Shooter
2007

The Lovely Bones
2009

Invincible
2006

Renaissance Man
1994

Die 90er - Popwunder & Popsünden
2004

The Happening
2008

Four Brothers
2005

The Big Hit
1998

The Corruptor
1999

Max Payne
2008

Rock Star
2001

The Other Guys
2010

The Italian Job
2003

The Truth About Charlie
2002

Date Night
2010

The Fighter
2010

The Yards
2000

Flight Risk
2025

Ted
2012

Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014

Spenser Confidential 2
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Contraband
2012

Broken City
2013

Pain & Gain
2013

2 Guns
2013

Lone Survivor
2013

The Making of We Own the Night
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Ted 2
2015

Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
2007

Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
2011

Daddy's Home
2015

The Substitute
1993

Play Dirty
2025

The Gambler
2014

Mojave
2016

The Family Plan
2023

Deepwater Horizon
2016

Evolution Within Extinction
2014

Mile 22
2018

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017

Entourage
2015

The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
2023

Patriots Day
2016

Balls Up
2026

Daddy's Home 2
2017

Weekend Warriors
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All the Money in the World
2017

Traveller
1997

T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie
2014

Manny
2014

Overnight
2003

Instant Family
2018

Spenser Confidential
2020

Joe Bell
2020

Scoob!
2020

Infinite
2021

Arthur the King
2024

Uncharted
2022

The Marky Mark Workout: Form... Focus... Fitness
1993

The Invocation
2010

Teen Vid II
1991

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward
2013

The Union
2024

Father Stu
2022

kid 90
2021

Me Time
2022

The Family Plan 2
2025

Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
2024

By Any Means
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The Operator
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Six Billion Dollar Man
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The Big Fix
—

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

Nightline
1980

Today
1952

The View
1997

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Early Show
1999

Wahl Street
2021

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Saturday Night Live
1975

Entertainment Tonight
1981

Entourage
2004

Wahlburgers
2014

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Flip It Like Disick
2019

Top Gear
2002

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Going Live!
1987

Hart to Heart
2021

Good Day Live
2001

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Out All Night
1992

Raw
1993

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002

Kids' Choice Awards
1987

The Defiant Ones
2017

GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
2018

Conan
2010

Ted: The Animated Series
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

TMZ peanut oil
2025

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992