Mark Wahlberg - Height, Movies, And Facts

Who Is Mark Wahlberg?

Mark Wahlberg embarked on an early life of crime before following brother Donnie into the music business, rising to fame as rapper Marky Mark. He turned to film in the 1990s, earning acclaim for his work in The Basketball Diaries, Boogie Nights, and Three Kings. Wahlberg was involved in the Academy Award-winning films The Departed and The Fighter and has since steadily churned out starring roles in such features as Transformer: Age of Extinction, Ted, and Daddy’s Home.

Early Life

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born on June 5, 1971, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a working-class family. His parents divorced when he was 11, and Wahlberg’s mother later blamed her emotional neglect for her youngest son’s descent into juvenile delinquency during the next several years.

At 14, Actor Wahlberg dropped out of school and began making his living on the streets — hustling, stealing, and selling drugs. Two years later, he hit rock bottom when he was jailed for his role in the savage beating of a Vietnamese man. His 45-day stint in prison was a self-proclaimed turning point for the 16-year-old; vowing to turn his life around, he also devoted himself to bodybuilding, chiseling his body into impressive form.

Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch

By the time Wahlberg had emerged from prison, his older brother Donnie had rocketed to stardom as one of five fresh-faced members of the pop band New Kids on the Block. Donnie soon decided to help his younger brother find his niche in the music business.

What Mark Wahlberg lacked in singing ability, he made up for in charisma and good looks; he took on the name of Marky Mark, and with a DJ, backup dancers (dubbed “the Funky Bunch”), and Donnie’s producing help, he recorded a debut album, Music for the People (1991). Driven by the success of the hit singles “Good Vibrations” and “Wildside” and Marky Mark’s readiness to discard his clothes onstage and in his videos, the album went platinum.

Movies And TV

‘Basketball Diaries’

After appearing in a 1993 television movie, The Substitute, Wahlberg made his big screen debut in Penny Marshall’s Renaissance Man (1994), playing one of a group of Army recruits taught by Danny DeVito’s ex-advertising salesman. His innate screen presence led to his casting in his breakthrough role, that of the drug-addled best friend of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in The Basketball Diaries (1995), a small-scale but acclaimed film based on poet-musician Jim Carroll’s autobiography of his adolescent struggles with heroin addiction.

‘Boogie Nights’

After two more attention-getting performances in Fear (1996) and Traveller (1997), Wahlberg cemented his artistic and commercial reputation with a starring role as dishwasher turned porn star Eddie Adams (a.k.a. Dirk Diggler) in Paul Thomas Anderson’s buzzworthy Boogie Nights (1997). Though his following two films — The Big Hit (1998) and The Corruptor (1999) — were less than successful, Wahlberg returned with a bang in the acclaimed Three Kings (1999). The film co-starred George Clooney, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze as renegade U.S. servicemen in the Persian Gulf during the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War conflict.

‘The Fighter’

Branching out into science fiction, Wahlberg starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2008 thriller The Happening. The movie proved to be a disappointment both critically and commercially. Two years later, however, Wahlberg earned raves for his starring role in the gritty 2010 boxing film The Fighter. The movie he helped produce was based on the life of boxer Micky Ward. The Fighter received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

‘Wahlburgers’ Reality Show

Working behind the scenes, Wahlberg has also enjoyed success as a producer. He served as an executive producer on such television shows as Entourage, In Treatment, and Boardwalk Empire. In 2014, Wahlberg launched another small-screen project, appearing as himself, along with brothers Donnie and Paul, on Wahlburgers. Airing on A&E, the show focuses on (and takes its name from) the Wahlberg family’s hamburger restaurant in Hingham, Massachusetts, and the brothers’ quirks and interactions.

‘All the Money in the World’

That year, Wahlberg also starred in All the Money in the World, a film about billionaire J. Paul Getty that sparked nearly as much background drama as the amount that transpired on screen. After co-star Kevin Spacey was fired from the project in November over sexual harassment allegations, director Ridley Scott assembled Wahlberg, Michelle Williams, and the rest of the cast and crew for an 11th-hour reshoot, with Christopher Plummer taking over as Getty.

Wife & Childrens

Wahlberg married model Rhea Durham in 2009. Before tying the knot, the couple had three children: daughter Ella and sons Michael and Brendan. In 2010, they welcomed their fourth child, daughter Grace Margaret.

Daily Life

Walhberg led a very disciplined life and shared his daily schedule on Instagram in September 2018:

2:30 am wake up
2:45 am prayer time
3:15 am breakfast
3:40-5:15 am workout
5:30 am post-workout meal
6:00 am shower
7:30 am golf
8:00 am snack
9:30 am cryo chamber recovery
10:30 am snack
11:00 am family time/meetings/work calls
1:00 pm lunch
2:00 pm meetings/work calls
3:00 pm Pick up kids @ school
3:30 pm snack
4:00 p. workout #2
5:00 pm shower
5:30 pm dinner/ family time
7:30 pm bedtime