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Mark Wahlberg
b. 1971
American actor (born 1971)
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Biography
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg, formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor, producer, 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.
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Released Music for the People as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. "Good Vibrations" hit No. 1. He was 20. Calvin Klein underwear ads followed. The stage name stuck for a while.
Starred as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. Critics took him seriously for the first time. The performance silenced people who wrote him off as a rapper playing dress-up.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Departed. He played a foul-mouthed Massachusetts State Police sergeant. The film won Best Picture. Wahlberg was the only cast member nominated.
Named the world's highest-paid actor by Forbes. He'd executive-produced Entourage and Boardwalk Empire for HBO. Also co-owned the Wahlburgers restaurant chain. A long way from Dorchester.
In Their Own Words (5)
A lot of celebrities...shouldn't [talk politics]... They're pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family.
"Mark Wahlberg: 'Hollywood is living in a bubble' and stars shouldn't talk politics", FoxNews.com (1 December 2016), 2016
It's weird; I've been to prison, I've seen the worst sort of violence and negative shit in the streets, but when it comes to putting my heart on the line and letting somebody get to know me in a relationship, it's very difficult.
2000
I've been on my own for a number of years now, but I've also found myself very alone. My family looks at me differently now, and that's the hardest thing to deal with, because you want to go home and be the person that you used to be. Obviously, I'm 28 years old and I can't go home and just be my mum's little baby.
2000
It's all going to go sometime. You can't take it with you. I'm not saying you should wake up every day with sunshine streaming out of your head. If I could get one day a month, I would be very grateful. But I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. I'm just figuring certain things out. It's taken me a while, and some things I could probably do without knowing.
2000
I just fell into the acting thing as kind of an accident.
2000
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I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a c...
mount of similarity in their general semantics formulations. In his 1970 book, I Seem To Be a Verb, he wrote: "I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category....
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