Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, restaurateur and former rapper. He is also known by his former stage name Marky Mark from his career with the groupMarky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed. He has also served as executive producer of five HBO series: Entourage, the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire, the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America and Ballers.
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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, restaurateur and former rapper. He is also known by his former stage name Marky Mark from his career with the groupMarky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed. In the 2010s, he landed successful comedy roles with The Other Guys, Ted, its 2015 sequel, Daddy’s Home, and its 2017 sequel. He also became the protagonist in the Transformers live-action film franchise. He was the world’s best-paid actor in 2017. He co-owner of the Wahlburgers chain and co-starred in the reality TV series about it. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. He has also served as executive producer of five HBO series: Entourage, the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire, the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America and Ballers, and the documentary McMillions. He is the youngest of nine children, including actor Robert and singer and actor Donnie. His father Donald was an Army veteran of the Korean War, and he died on February 14, 2008. Through his mother’s side of the family, Wahlberg is distantly related to author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He attended Copley Square High School on Newbury Street in Boston. By age 13 he had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances. While living in Boston in the 1980s he was twice charged for race-related hate crimes, serving time in jail for one of the attacks.
In December 1992, while performing on the British TV show The Word, he praised Shabba Ranks who had stated gays should be crucified. He later collaborated with the late Frank Peterson and Alex Christensen on the music label East West Records. A self-titled picture book, Trying to resuscitate his music career, was also released by him mostly by him and taken by Goldsmith Lynn Lynn Lynn. In 2010, he released the album You Gotta Believe, which was a huge success as a huge hit in the U.S. The album was certified as a platinum single. In 2012 he released a second album, which also had a minor hit, The Word: The Word The Word. In 2013 he released an album, The Truth, with images taken by Alex Christensen and Frank Christensen. In 2014 he released The Truth: The Truth The Word, which was also a massive success in the United States. In 2015 he released another album, This Is It, which had a number one hit. In 2016 he released his first solo album, A Man Walks On To A Stage, with the album being certified a gold record. In 2009, he had a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, later becoming certified as platinum. He had a hit with \”Good Vibrations\” from their debut album Music for the People. He quit the group at the age of 13, along with Donnie, but quit after a few months.
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