Mark Wahlberg

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American, actor and producer. He starred in the films The Basketball Diaries (1995), Boogie Nights (1997), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Italian Job (2003), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Four Brothers (2005), The Departed (2006), Shooter (2007), Max Payne (2008), The Other Guys (2010), The Fighter (2010), Contraband (2012), Ted (2012), Pain & Gain (2013), 2 Guns (2013), and Uncharted (2022)
He is an executive producer for the HBO crime drama series Boardwalk Empire. Wahlberg had a long working relationship with HBO prior to Boardwalk Empire as an executive producer for Entourage.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Net worth 4 millión dollár cash and bank 
Wahlberg was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie. His mother, Alma Elaine (née Donnelly), was a bank clerk and nurse's aide, and his father, Donald Edward Wahlberg, was a Teamster who worked as a delivery driver. His parents divorced in 1982. Wahlberg had a Roman Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School (but never graduated) on Newbury Street in Boston.
He spent his teenage years as the member of a criminal gang. He was addicted to cocaine and was involved in multiple assaults. For these crimes, Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to assault, and was sentenced to two years in jail at Boston's Deer Island House of Correction, of which he served 45 days in 1987.
He was involved in the music industry at an early age. He was recruited as a member of pop group New Kids on the Block aged 13 by his brother Donnie. Mark left the group before their success.
===Earlier career===
He was a successful musician performing with a backing group as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He had a number one single and produced two albums. He toured nationwide with New Kids on the Block. He went on to work as a model. He became a film actor in mid-1990s and went on to star in film projects including The Departed for Martin Scorsese.
He began his television production career with the series Entourage for HBO which was partly based on his own life. He worked with business partner Stephen Levinson on the project. In 2008 Wahlberg and Levinson became executive producers for HBO drama In Treatment, based on the Israeli series Be Tipul.
===Boardwalk Empire===
Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson were executive producers of Boardwalk Empire from its inception. They brought Terence Winter aboard to adapt the book, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City. Winter serves as the show runner and head writer for the series. Martin Scorsese joined the project as a director for the pilot episode and an executive producer. 
==Selected Filmography==
Year	Title 	Role
1993	The Substitute 	Ryan Westerberg
1994	Renaissance Man 	Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood
1995	The Basketball Diaries 	Mickey
1996	Fear 	David McCall
1997	Traveller 	Pat O'Hara
1997	Boogie Nights 	Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler
1998	The Big Hit 	Melvin Smiley
1999	The Corruptor 	Detective Danny Wallace
1999	Three Kings 	Troy Barlow
2000	The Yards 	Leo Handler
2000	The Perfect Storm 	Robert "Bobby" Shatford
2001	Planet of the Apes 	Captain Leo Davidson
2001	Rock Star 	Chris "Izzy" Cole
2002	The Truth About Charlie 	Joshua Peters
2003	The Italian Job 	Charlie Croker
2004	I Heart Huckabees 	Tommy Corn
2005	Four Brothers 	Robert "Bobby" Mercer
2006	Invincible 	Vincent "Vince" Francis Papale
2006	The Departed 	SSgt. Sean Dignam
2007	Shooter 	GySgt. Bob Lee Swagger
2007	We Own the Night 	Captain Joseph "Joe" Grusinsky
2008	The Happening 	Elliot Moore
2008	Max Payne 	Max Payne
2009	The Lovely Bones 	Jack Salmon
2010	Date Night 	Holbrooke Grant
2010	The Other Guys 	Detective Terry Hoitz
2010	The Fighter 	"Irish" Micky Ward
2012	Contraband 	Chris Farraday
2012	Ted 	John
2013	Broken City 	Billy Taggart
2013	Pain & Gain 	Daniel Lugo
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Cade Yeager
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight 	Cade Yeager
2022	Uncharted 	Victor Sullivan
===Producer===
Year 	Title 	Role
2004–11 	Entourage 	Executive producer
2007 	We Own the Night 	Producer
2008–10 	In Treatment 	Executive producer
2010–11 	How to Make It in America	Executive producer
2010–present	Boardwalk Empire 	Executive producer
2010 	The Fighter 	Producer
2012 	Contraband 	Producer
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