Mark Wahlberg
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.
118 acting credits
Acting · 118
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Raw
1993
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
Top Gear
2002
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Entourage
2004
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Balls Up
2026
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Ted 2
2015
The Family Plan
2023
Good Day Live
2001
Ted
2012
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
The Departed
2006
Shooter
2007
Going Live!
1987
The Family Plan 2
2025
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Play Dirty
2025
Uncharted
2022
Kids' Choice Awards
1987
The Basketball Diaries
1995
Flight Risk
2025
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Infinite
2021
Lone Survivor
2013
Wahlburgers
2014
Today
1952
Fear
1996
The Lovely Bones
2009
Planet of the Apes
2001
The Italian Job
2003
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
2018
Boogie Nights
1997
The Happening
2008
The Union
2024
Deepwater Horizon
2016
Instant Family
2018
The Fighter
2010
Wahl Street
2021
The Perfect Storm
2000
Daddy's Home
2015
2 Guns
2013
The Other Guys
2010
Hart to Heart
2021
Arthur the King
2024
Out All Night
1992
Daddy's Home 2
2017
Scoob!
2020
Four Brothers
2005
The Defiant Ones
2017
Pain & Gain
2013
Patriots Day
2016
Contraband
2012
Mile 22
2018
Max Payne
2008
The Gambler
2014
Date Night
2010
Entourage
2015
Spenser Confidential
2020
Broken City
2013
Three Kings
1999
Nightline
1980
Invincible
2006
Father Stu
2022
Rock Star
2001
Me Time
2022
Spenser Confidential 2
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The Early Show
1999
All the Money in the World
2017
The Big Hit
1998
The Yards
2000
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Corruptor
1999
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
Joe Bell
2020
We Own the Night
2007
I ♥ Huckabees
2004
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
2023
The Truth About Charlie
2002
Traveller
1997
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
kid 90
2021
Renaissance Man
1994
Manny
2014
Ted: The Animated Series
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Overnight
2003
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
2024
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
2007
The Substitute
1993
Mojave
2016
Flip It Like Disick
2019
The Invocation
2010
By Any Means
2026
Commitment to Life
2023
The Making of We Own the Night
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Die 90er - Popwunder & Popsünden
2004
Weekend Warriors
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Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
2011
The Marky Mark Workout: Form... Focus... Fitness
1993
Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward
2013
TMZ peanut oil
2025
Teen Vid II
1991
The Operator
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The Big Fix
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Six Billion Dollar Man
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