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{{quote| '''[[WaynesWayne's World]]''': Yeah, I thought Mark Wahlberg was [[Even the Guys Want Him|super]]-[[Stupid Sexy Flanders|sexy]] in this, [[Shirtless Scene|especially with his shirt off]].<br />
'''Garth''': What?<br />
'''Wayne''': [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|I'm sorry, that was an inside thought.]] }}
 
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 starring 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.
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* ''[[The Perfect Storm]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' (2001)
* ''[[The Italian Job (2003 film)|The Italian Job]]'' (2003)
* ''[[I Heart Huckabees]]'' (2004)
* ''[[The Departed]]'' (2006)
* ''Invincible'' (2006)
* ''[[Shooter]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Max Payne (Filmfilm)|Max Payne]]'' (2008)
* ''[[The Happening]]'' (2009)
* ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'' (2009)
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* ''[[The Fighter]]'' (2010)
* ''Contraband'' (2012)
* ''[[Ted (Filmfilm)|Ted]]'' (2012)
 
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* [[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.
* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: He trained every day for four years waiting for ''[[The Fighter]]'' (where he played a boxer) to escape Development Hell.
* [[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]]).
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* [[Motor Mouth]]: One of his favorite acting moves. Watch his movies, you'll see it.
* [[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.
** Some of his earlier films as well, such as ''Fear''.
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