
Mark Wahlberg is an actor, producer, businessman, former model, rapper, and songwriter. Wahlberg was known by his stage name Marky Mark in his early career as frontman for the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, releasing the albums Music for the People and You Gotta Believe. Wahlberg later transitioned to acting, appearing in films such as the drama " The Basketball Diaries" with Leonardo DiCaprio & Boogie Nights and the satirical war comedy-drama Three Kings during the 1990s. In the 2000s, he starred in the biographical disaster drama The Perfect Storm, the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, the heist film The Italian Job, 4 Brothers (2005 film) and the Martin Scorsese-directed crime drama The Departed, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In the 2010s, he starred in the action comedy The Other Guys alongside Will Ferrell, the biographical sports drama The Fighter (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination as a producer for Best Picture), the comedy Ted, the war film Lone Survivor, the crime comedy Pain & Gain, the science fiction action film Transformers: Age of Extinction and the sequel Transformers: The Last Knight, the comedy Daddy's Home, the disaster film Deepwater Horizon, and the thriller Patriots Day. Wahlberg has also served as executive producer of four HBO series: the comedy-drama Entourage (200411), the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire (201014), and the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America (201011) and Ballers (2015present). Wahlberg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 29, 2010.
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