Mark Wahlberg
Acting
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 2011 Best Picture Nominated The Fighter
- 2007 Best Supporting Actor Nominated The Departed
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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.
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Acting
54 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Entourage
The View
Top Gear
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Departed
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Good Day Live
Ted
Ted 2
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Play Dirty
Balls Up
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Uncharted
Shooter
Lone Survivor
Going Live!
The Family Plan 2
The Family Plan
The Italian Job
Transformers: The Last Knight
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Flight Risk
The Other Guys
Instant Family
Today
Boogie Nights
The Happening
Daddy's Home
Kids' Choice Awards
Patriots Day
The Lovely Bones
Planet of the Apes
Infinite
Father Stu
Pain & Gain
Deepwater Horizon
Date Night
Fear
Mile 22
The Perfect Storm
The Fighter
Producing
15 credits
Entourage
Boardwalk Empire
In Treatment
Shooter
Prisoners
Lone Survivor
The Family Plan 2
The Family Plan
Instant Family
Patriots Day
Infinite
Father Stu
Deepwater Horizon
Mile 22
The Fighter
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