Mark Wahlberg Age, Height, Net Worth, Wife, Movies, Biography & More

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg, known Mark Wahlberg was born June 5, 1971, former stage name Marky Mark, is an actor, producer and former American rapper.

Wahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1971. In his youth, he committed multiple racist assaults. In the 1990s, Wahlberg was a member of the music group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, with whom he released the albums Music for the People (1991) and You Gotta Believe (1992). Wahlberg moved from music to theater, with his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and his first leading role in Fear (1996). He received critical acclaim for his performance as a porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997).

Wahlberg has also served as an executive producer on 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 channel and starred in the reality series about it. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.

Wahlberg married model Rhea Durham on August 1, 2009, at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, near their home. They have four children: daughters Ella Rae (born 2003) and Grace Margaret (born 2010) and sons Michael (born 2006) and Brendan Joseph (born 2008).

Wahlberg is Catholic, but he openly supports same-sex marriage despite opposition from the Church. In September 2015, he apologized to Pope Francis for the crass jokes he made in the movie Ted, and he said in an interview with Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago in 2017 that he asked for forgiveness from God for playing a pornstar in Boogie Nights. He later said on Andy Cohen’s radio show that the interview “was a joke taken too seriously.”

Wahlberg established the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in May 2001 to raise and distribute funds for youth service and enrichment programs. Wahlberg is active with the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children.

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