Mark Wahlberg
Birthdate: June 5, 1971 (55 Years Old)
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Mark Wahlberg has blended his activities as an actor and producer to an unusual degree, devoting time to developing projects (such as Patriots Day, Mile 22 (2018), Instant Family (2018), and Father Stu (2022) in which he served as a hands-on producer and star, which he continued as producer and as Robert Parker’s beloved detective character, Spencer, in Spenser Confidential (2020). Wahlberg continued as star-producer with the biopic Joe Bell (2020), with Reid Miller, Connie Britton, Maxwell Jenkins and Gary Sinise under Reinaldo Marcus Green’s direction and co-written by Larry McMurtry, and with distributor Lionsgate’s adventure movie Arthur the King (2024), based on Mikael Lindnord’s true story under Simon Cellan Jones’s direction with co-stars Simu Liu, Juliet Rylance, Ali Suliman and Paul Guilfoyle.
Wahlberg stepped aboard director-producer Mel Gibson’s thriller Flight Risk (2025), co-starring Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace, produced (in part) by John Davis’s Davis Entertainment, and released by Lionsgate. Wahlberg, after three consecutive movies released direct to streaming, returned to theaters as co-star/producer with Yahya Abdul-Mateen in director/producer Elegance Bratton’s 1966-set crime movie, By Any Means (2026), co-starring Nicole Beharie, Josh Lucas, LisaGay Hamilton, LaChanze, Ethan Embry, David Strathairn and Giancarlo Esposito, produced (in part) by Hammerstone Studios and Thunder Road and released wide by Paramount Pictures.
Wahlberg joined Icelandic director/producer Baltasar Kormakur for the U.S. crime thriller, The Big Fix (date to be announced), starring Riz Ahmed, Zlatko Buric, Chin Han, Vipin Sharma, Natalie Dormer and Susan Lynch, produced (in part) by Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment, and released by Netflix. In addition to his long track record as a star, Wahlberg has amassed over 40 credits as a producer, including We Own the Night, The Fighter (2010), the long-running, semi-autobiographical HBO series, Entourage (2004-2011), Lone Survivor (2013), The Gambler (2014), Patriots Day, Spenser Confidential, Joe Bell (2020) and Father Stu (2023).
Mark Wahlberg’s considerable business projects outside of filmmaking would by themselves constitute an impressive entrepreneurial resume: Co-owner of the Wahlburgers fast food chain (with brothers Donnie and Paul); co-owner of five Chevrolet and Oldsmobile dealerships in the Columbus and Cleveland areas of Ohio; creator of the bottled water, Aquahydrate; co-founder of sports nutrition brand, Performance Inspired; co-owner of the Barbados Trident cricket team, among other enterprises.
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Previous (35)
- 2026 |
By Any Means
asGreg Scarpa
A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi.
- 2025 |
Flight Risk
asDaryl
A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
- 2024 |
Arthur the King
asMichael
An adventure racer adopts a stray dog named Arthur to join him in an epic endurance race.
- 2023 |
- 2022 |
Father Stu
asStuart Long
Follows the life of Father Stuart Long, a boxer-turned-priest who inspired countless people during his journey from self-destruction to redemption.
- 2022 |
- 2021 |
- 2021 |
- 2021 |
- 2018 |
- 2018 |
- 2017 |
Transformers: The Last Knight
asCade Yeager
A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space.
- 2017 |
All the Money in the World
asFletcher Chace
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
- 2017 |
Daddy's Home 2
asDusty
Having finally gotten used to each other's existence, Brad and Dusty must now deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.
- 2016 |
Deepwater Horizon
asMike Williams
A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in history.
- 2016 |
Patriots Day
asTommy Saunders
The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.
- 2016 |
- 2015 |
Daddy's Home
asDusty Mayron
Brad Whitaker is a radio host trying to get his stepchildren to love him and call him Dad. But his plans turn upside down when their biological father, Dusty Mayron, returns.
- 2015 |
- 2014 |
The Gambler
asJim Bennett
Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation, is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
- 2014 |
Transformers: Age of Extinction
asCade Yeager
Transformers: Age of Extinction
When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help.
- 2013 |
Lone Survivor
asMarcus Luttrell
Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
- 2013 |
Broken City
asBilly Taggart
In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.
- 2013 |
- 2013 |
Pain & Gain
asDaniel Lugo
A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.
- 2012 |
Contraband
asChris Farraday
To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.
- 2012 |
- 2010 |
The Other Guys
asTerry Hoitz
Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops, whom they idolize, only things don't quite go as planned.
- 2009 |
The Lovely Bones
asJack Salmon
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
- 2006 |
The Departed
asDignam
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
- 2003 |
The Italian Job
asCharlie Croker
After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.
- 2001 |
Planet of the Apes
asCaptain Leo Davidson
In 2029, an Air Force astronaut crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans.
- 2000 |
The Perfect Storm
asBobby Shatford
An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.
- 1997 |
Boogie Nights
asEddie Adams, Dirk Diggler
An idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.
- -- | as Daniel Lugo
Producer
Previous (5)
- 2022 |
Father Stu
Follows the life of Father Stuart Long, a boxer-turned-priest who inspired countless people during his journey from self-destruction to redemption.
- 2018 |
- 2016 |
Deepwater Horizon
A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in history.
- 2015 |
- 2014 |
The Gambler
Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation, is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
Facts About Mark Wahlberg
Relation: On his mother Alma’s side, Mark Wahlberg is related to American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
New Kid: For a brief time when he was 13, Wahlberg was a member of his brother Donnie’s breakout boy band, New Kids on the Block.
Near-miss: Mark Wahlberg was booked on American Airlines Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001, which was hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center. He cancelled his reservation due to scheduling changes.
Nicknames: In his former pop music career, Wahlberg was known as “Marky Mark.”
Model: Mark Wahlberg was model, posing in underwear, for a set of Calvin Klein ads shot by famed photographer Herb Ritts.
Felon: Because of his felony conviction for attempted murder, Wahlberg is legally prohibited from handling firearms—and yet has handled firearms during pre-production prep for some of his movies.
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