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[[File:Mark_Wahlberg-1-The_Happening_4794.jpg|frame|Mark Wahlberg in 2008]]

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'''Mark Wahlberg''' (born 1971) is an American actor and former musician. After a troubled youth that saw numerous brushes with Johnny Law, Wahlberg's older brother Donnie (of the [[New Kids Onon the Block]]) arranged an entry-point into the music business (though personal agreements made him decide against permanently joining the New Kids). Now styling himself as Marky Mark (accompanied by the Funky Bunch), Wahlberg became a rap star. Their most successful single was "Good Vibrations" (not to be confused with [[The Beach Boys]] song). This period in his career is often regarded as being rather [[Narm|Narmy]], even by fans and Wahlberg himself. By the mid-1990s, he began to make the transition into acting, and became an even bigger success than before, both commercially and, with his role in ''[[Boogie Nights]]'', critically. He even earned an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ''[[The Departed]]''. He was most recently seen starringstarred as "Irish" Micky Ward in ''[[The Fighter]]''.

He has also served as the executive producer of ''[[Entourage]]'' which is loosely based on his experiences as an up-and-coming actor. He also co-founded the Wahlburgers chain of burger restaurants with his brothers Paul and Donnie.

* ''[[The Italian Job (2003 film)|The Italian Job]]'' (2003)

* ''[[I Heart♥ Huckabees]]'' (2004)

* ''[[Max Payne (Filmfilm)|Max Payne]]'' (2008)

* ''[[Ted (Filmfilm)|Ted]]'' (2012)

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Wahlberg claims to have been in trouble 20–25 times with the Boston Police Department as a youth. By the age of 13, he had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances. He also committed racist hate crimes in his teens; at 15, he threw rocks shouted racial epithets at a group of black schoolkids, and at 16, he knocked a middle-aged Vietnamese man unconscious and left another Vietnamese man permanently blind in one eye.

* [[Doing It for Thethe Art]]: He went far out of his way to get ''[[The Fighter]]'' made. His career in general contains a much higher percentage of serious drama than one might reasonably expect from a former rapper.

* [[Hollywood New England]]: Averted. A native Bostonian, he is one of the relatively few major stars who can credibly do an accent from there (others including the aforementioned Damon and [[Ben Affleck]]).

* [[Massive -Numbered Siblings]]: He's the youngest of nine children.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: He made great use of his terrific physique to get his career off the ground, most famously in ads for Calvin Klein.

* [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent]]: Possibly wisely, Wahlberg makes no attempt to alter his native accent, and just talks like the [[Southies|Southie]] he is, even when his characters are supposed to be from [[Four Brothers|Chicago]] or [[Shooter|Wyoming]], for instance.

* [[Old Shame]]: His music, to a great extent.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Not infrequently.

* [[Triple Nipple]]: He has three nipples. No, really, he actually [https://web.archive.org/web/20101229133610/http://cdn.crushable.com/files/2010/12/Mark_Wahlberg_012.jpg has three nipples]. He calls his smaller third nipple his "prized possession".

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