Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born June 5, 1971 and he is an American actor, producer, restaurateur and former rapper.
Mark Wahlberg Biography
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born on June 5, 1971, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston , Massachusetts . He is the youngest of nine siblings, including actor Robert and singer-actor Donnie.
His mother, Alma Elaine (born Donnelly; 1942-2021), was a bank clerk and nursing assistant, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg Sr. (1930-2008 ), was a delivery driver and a veteran of the US Army in the Korean War. His parents was divorcing in 1982; afterwards, he divided his time between them.
He is of Swedish descent, but also has more distant Irish and French-Canadian ancestry.
On his mother’s side of the family, he was distantly related to author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was raised Catholic, and he was attending Copley Square High School on Newbury Street in Boston. By age 13, he had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances.
He didn’t received his high school diploma until June 2013, at the age of 42.
Mark Wahlberg Height
He turned 48 in June. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Mark Wahlberg Net Worth
He is an American actor, producer, producer, singer, and songwriter who has a massive net worth of $255 million as of 2019.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, he is estimated to have a net worth of $255 million as of August 2019. He derived his enormous riches from his successful career as an actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and businessman.
The billionaire resides on a 6.14 million dollar estate in Hidden Hills. The home is 30,000 square feet with 11 bedrooms and 18 baths, a pool and full basketball court, and many more features.
The house is worth $13 million with a gym that includes equipment worth $2.5 million only.
He previously owned an 11,500-square-foot Beverly Hills French Manor with 7 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and other features. The house was listed on the market for the asking price of $30 million.
Similarly, it cruises around expensive cars like Lamborghini Diablo ($290,382 to $364,994), Bentley Mulsanne ($307,395), Cadillac Escalade ($67,600, Mercedes-Benz SLS ($129,000 ) and Bentley Azure ($139,980).
Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet
He buys a Chevrolet dealership in Ohio .
He (known, among many other films, for his appearance in the ‘ Transformers ‘ saga), seems to want to combine his facet as a Hollywood star with that of a motor business man (among others, such as restoration or sports supplements), and Jay Feldman, a director of dealerships for the brand, has joined in the purchase of a dealership in Columbus, Ohio.
Mark Wahlberg Career
In 1993, he was making his acting debut in the television movie The Substitute . After this appearance, he was dropping the name “Marky Mark“.
His big-screen debut came the following year, in Danny DeVito ‘s feature film Renaissance Man . A basketball fan, he was coming to critical attention after appearing alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries (1995), a film adaptation of Jim Carroll’s book of the same name, playing the role of Mickey. He had his first leading role in the James Foley thriller Fear (1996).
It garnered positive reviews after such films as Boogie Nights , Three Kings , The Perfect Storm , and Four Brothers . In the early 2000s, he was appearing in remakes of 1960s films such as Planet of the Apes , The Truth About Charlie (a remake of the 1963 film Charade ), and The Italian Job . His performance in I Heart Huckabees has been voted the best supporting performance of the year in The Village Voice’s 2004 critics’ poll. 
He was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean’s Eleven., but Matt Damon was playing the part instead. The two later worked together on The Departed .
He was also considered for a role in the film Brokeback Mountain . It was originally intended to star Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix (with whom he was appearing in the 2000 film The Yards ) as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, respectively, but both actors were uncomfortable with the film’s sex scenes.
The roles eventually went to Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who were both been nominated for Academy Awards for their performances.
He was starring in the football drama Invincible , based on the true story of bartender Vince Papale. He was also the executive producer of the HBO series Entourage (2004-2011), which was loosely based on his experiences in Hollywood.
In 2006, he was appearing as a nasty-mouthed, foul-mouthed Massachusetts state trooper detective in Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed thriller, The Departed , which he was earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and an award for Best Supporting Actor from the National Society of Film Critics. 
Despite his felony conviction, which legally prohibits him from handling firearms, he was preparing for his role in Shooter by attending long-range shooting training at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute near Pahrump, Nevada.
He was able to hit a 1,100-yard target on his second day, a feat that usually takes weeks to accomplish. He was saying in several interviews that he would retire at the age of 40 to concentrate on fatherhood and professional golf.
However, in early 2007, he was indicating that the latter was no longer the plan as “his golf game is horrible”. He was playing Jack Salmon, the father of the protagonist, Susie, in Peter Jackson’s From My Heaven, a film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s book of the same name.
In 2007, he was starring opposite Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night , a film about a family of police officers in New York City.
Mark Wahlberg Movies
He was transitioning from music to acting, with his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and his first leading role in Fear (1996). He was receiving critical acclaim for his portrayal of porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights . 
In the early 2000s, he was venturing into big-budget action-oriented films such as The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), and The Italian Job (2003). He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed (2006).
He was been nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the sports drama biopic The Fighter (2010), in which he played Micky Ward .
In the 2010s, he was landing successful comedy roles with The Other Guys (2010), Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015), Daddy’s Home (2015), and Daddy’s Home 2 (2017). He also was becoming the lead in two films in the Transformers live-action film franchise, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight . He was the highest paid actor in the world in 2017.
He was also serving as an executive producer on five HBO series : the comedy-drama Entourage (2004-2011), the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014), the comedies-dramas How to Make It in America (2010-2011) and Ballers (2015-2019) and the documentary McMillions (2020).
He is part owner of the Wahlburgers chain and he is co-starring in the reality series about it. He was receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.
Mark Wahlberg New Movie
Now joining this list is Time for Me ( Me Time ), the new comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart , directed by John Hamburg ( My Girlfriend Polly ), which on its launch weekend has managed to occupy the first position within the most viewed films on the platform.
Mark Wahlberg Wife
He was booked to fly on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001, but his plans had changed the day before and he canceled his reservation.
He is Catholic, but he openly is supporting same-sex marriage despite opposition from the Church.
He has married model Rhea Durham on August 1, 2009, at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, near where they were living. They have four children: daughters Ella Rae who was born 2003 and Grace Margaret who was born in 2010 and sons Michael who was born in 2006 and Brendan Joseph who was born 2008. 
In September 2015, he was apologizing to Pope Francis for rude jokes he was making in the movie Ted , and he had stated in an interview with Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich in 2017 that he was sought God’s forgiveness for him playing in a porn movie as an actor in Boogie Nights . He later was stating on Andy Cohen’s radio show that the interview “was a joke that he was taking too seriously”.
He was establishing the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in May 2001 for the purpose of raising and distributing funds for youth services and enrichment programs. He is active in the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children.
