Mark Wahlberg 1971 54
Mark Wahlberg 1971 54
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg, 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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2025 Play Dirty as Parker
2025 The Family Plan 2 as Dan Morgan Producer
2025 By Any Means Producer
2025 Balls Up as Brad Lewison
2025 Spenser Confidential 2 as Spenser
2025 Weekend Warriors
2025 The Making of We Own the Night as Self
2025 Flight Risk as Daryl
2024 Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands as Self
2024 Amber Alert Thanks
2024 The Union as Mike McKenna Producer
2024 Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024 MoviePass, MovieCrash Producer
2024 Arthur the King as Michael Light Executive Producer
2023 The Family Plan as Dan Morgan Producer
2023 The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 Me Time as Huck Dembo
2022 Father Stu as Father Stuart 'Stu' Long Producer
2022 Uncharted as Victor 'Sully' Sullivan
2021 Infinite as Evan McCauley Producer
2021 kid 90 as Self (archive footage)
2020 Joe Bell as Joe Bell Producer
2020 Scoob! as Blue Falcon (voice)
2020 Spenser Confidential as Spenser Producer
2018 Instant Family as Pete Wagner Producer
2018 Mile 22 as James Silva Producer
2017 All the Money in the World as Fletcher Chase
2017 Daddy's Home 2 as Dusty
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight as Cade Yeager
2016 Patriots Day as Sgt. Tommy Saunders Producer
2016 Deepwater Horizon as Mike Williams Producer
2016 Stealing Cars Executive Producer
2016 Mojave as Norman
2015 Daddy's Home as Dusty Mayron
2015 Ted 2 as John
2015 Entourage as Mark Wahlberg Producer
2014 Manny
2014 The Gambler as Jim Bennett Producer
2014 T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie as Self
2014 Evolution Within Extinction as Self
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction as Cade Yeager
2013 Lone Survivor as Petty Officer First Class Marcus Luttrell Producer
2013 Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward as Narrator (voice)
2013 Prisoners Executive Producer
2013 2 Guns as Michael 'Stig' Stigman
2013 Pain & Gain as Daniel Lugo
2013 Broken City as Billy Taggart Producer
2012 Ted as John Bennett
2012 Contraband as Chris Farraday Producer
2011 Der Weg des Ruhms as Self
2010 The Fighter as Micky Ward Producer
2010 The Invocation as Self
2010 The Other Guys as Detective Terry Hoitz
2010 Date Night as Holbrooke
2009 The Lovely Bones as Jack Salmon
2008 Max Payne as Max Payne
2008 The Happening as Elliot Moore
2007 We Own the Night as Cpt. Joseph 'Joe' Grusinsky Producer
2007 Shooter as Bob Lee Swagger
2007 Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed' as Self
2006 The Departed as Dignam
2006 Invincible as Vince Papale
2005 Four Brothers as Bobby Mercer
2004 Die 90er - Popwunder & Popsünden as Self
2004 I ♥ Huckabees as Tommy Corn
2004 Entourage Executive Producer
2003 Overnight as Self
2003 The Italian Job as Charlie Croker
2002 The Truth About Charlie as Peter Joshua
2001 Rock Star as Chris 'Izzy' Cole
2001 Planet of the Apes as Captain Leo Davidson
2000 The Perfect Storm as Bobby Shatford
2000 The Yards as Leo Handler
1999 Three Kings as Troy Barlow
1999 The Corruptor as Danny Wallace
1998 The Big Hit as Melvin Smiley
1997 Boogie Nights as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler
1997 Traveller as Pat
1996 Fear as David McCall
1995 The Basketball Diaries as Mickey
1994 Renaissance Man as Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood
1993 The Substitute as Ryan Westerberg
1993 The Marky Mark Workout: Form... Focus... Fitness as Marky Mark
1991 Teen Vid II as Self