Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, restaurateur and former rapper. He is also known by his former stage name Marky Mark from his career with the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, with whom he released the albums Music for the People and You Gotta Believe. Wahlberg transitioned from music to acting, with his screen debut in Renaissance Man and his first starring role in Fear. He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. In the early 2000s, he ventured into big budget action-oriented movies, such as The Perfect Storm, Planet of the Apes, and The Italian Job. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the sports drama biopic The Fighter, in which he starred as Micky Ward.
Boogie Nights, The Fighter, Ted, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Daddy's Home, and Lone Survivor are among the films in which he has starred. He was also an executive producer on HBO's popular shows Entourage and Boardwalk Empire.
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