While things were always intense, they were relatively harmless and made for enjoyable reading for the public. However, when the story of his arrest for assault and the allegations of racism broke in the press, things took on a decidedly darker note. People were not amused.
Soon after, while on a British talk show along with rapper Shabba Ranks , he got into even more trouble. After Ranks made the statement that gays should be crucified, Wahlberg was accused of condoning the comments by his silence. Marky Mark was suddenly surrounded by charges of brutality, homophobia and racial hatred. His second album, "You Gotta Believe", had not been faring well and, after the charges surfaced, it plummeted from the charts. Adding to the hoopla, Wahlberg was brought to court for allegedly assaulting a security guard.
He was ordered to make amends by appearing in a series of anti-bias advertisements. Humbled and humiliated by his fall from grace in the music world, Wahlberg decided to pursue another angle, acting. He dropped the "Marky Mark" moniker and became known simply as Mark Wahlberg.
His first big screen role came in Penny Marshall 's Renaissance Man Despite the name change, many people snickered at the idea of the has-been rapper thinking he could make it as an actor. From the get-go, he was proving them wrong.
In Renaissance Man , he gave an utterly charming performance as a simple but sincere army recruit. What naysayers remained found it increasingly difficult to write Mark Wahlberg off as he delivered one fine performance after another.
He blew them away in the controversial The Basketball Diaries and chilled them in Fear as every father's worst nightmare. Since then, Wahlberg has chosen roles that demonstrate a wide range of dramatic ability, starring in critically acclaimed dramas such as Three Kings and The Perfect Storm , popcorn flicks like Planet of the Apes and Contraband , and even indies such as I Heart Huckabees Wahlberg was the executive producer of such television series as Boardwalk Empire , In Treatment and the highly successful comedy Entourage , which was partly based on his experiences in Hollywood.
Wahlberg and his wife Rhea Durham have four children. Sign In. Edit Mark Wahlberg. Showing all 98 items. Often plays tough, no-nonsense characters, with sarcastic sense of humor. Frequently plays law enforcement officials, military personnel or criminals in his films. Robert, Donnie and Mark are from their mother's third marriage with Donald Wahlberg. Was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's Eleven but dropped out. The role went to Matt Damon.
His older sister Debbie passed away on September 2, , leaving behind a teenage son. She died on the same day that Mark's first child, Ella Rae Wahlberg , was born. Has a tattoo of Bob Marley on his left shoulder. Is very close to his mother Alma McPeck. Turned down the role of Hero in the horror film Feast , which went to Eric Dane. Sean Dignam in The Departed Wahlberg has said that it's one of the roles he is most proud of. Considers The Truth About Charlie his worst film. He and some friends were actually booked to fly on one of the planes that crashed in to the twin towers on September 11, Originally planning on flying from Boston to Los Angeles but at the last minute they decided to charter a plane to Toronto, Canada for a film festival and then from there to Los Angeles.
A near brush with death that he still dreams about today. Mark Wahlberg embarked on an early life of crime before following brother Donnie into the music business, rising to fame as rapper Marky Mark. 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 own emotional neglect for her youngest son's descent into juvenile delinquency during the next several years. At 14 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 day stint in prison was a self-proclaimed turning point for the year-old; vowing to turn his life around, he also devoted himself to bodybuilding, chiseling his body into impressive form. 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 own 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 Driven by the success of the hit singles "Good Vibrations" and "Wildside" — and by Marky Mark's readiness to discard his clothes onstage and in his videos — the album went platinum.
One of pop music's hottest new commodities, Wahlberg and his rock-hard physique became even more ubiquitous when he signed a two-year contract with the designer Calvin Klein to model underwear. His raucous public persona — he once was involved in a much-talked-about brawl with Madonna 's entourage at a Los Angeles nightclub — only served to increase his popular appeal, until news began surfacing about his criminal past and his possibly racist and homophobic tendencies. In this part of Wahlberg's personal life was seriously questioned when he was accused of condoning blatantly homophobic remarks made on a British talk show by his fellow guest, reggae singer Shabba Ranks.
However, their sophomore album would be a huge flop, and the readers of Rolling Stone would vote Mark Wahlberg the? Worst Singer of the Year? This rapid demise led Wahlberg to pursue a gig in acting, which would arrive a year later when he made his debut in the TV film The Substitute. After this, he dropped the Marky Mark moniker and then landed his big screen debut, in the movie Renaissance Man.
In a shocking story, Wahlberg narrowly avoided death on September 11th, , as he had booked a ticket for Flight 11 on American Airlines, headed from Boston to Los Angeles, but had to cancel his reservation after his plans changed the day before. Of course, Flight 11 would never reach its destination, as it was hijacked by terrorists and flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Upon revealing this information, Wahlberg then caused some controversy by making comments stating that if he was on the plane, he believed that things would have gone down very differently and it would have ended with him saying?
Okay, we? There was a strong backlash against Wahlberg for these comments, which led him to release a statement where he deeply apologized to the families of the victims and stated that his words came off as insensitive and irresponsible. Whether it is in one of his films or from modeling for Calvin Klein back in the day, Mark Wahlberg has always quick to whip off his shirt and has clearly worked extremely hard at his physique he even has his own fitness video. However, if you were to look closely at some of his photos from his Marky Mark days, you will notice that he actually has a third nipple, or?
In much of his modeling work, this is airbrushed out, but it is still noticeable in some of his films and from earlier photos. Mark has spoken about his third nipple before, stating that he has come to embrace it and would not have it removed.
Mark Wahlberg? This includes being distantly related to famed American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who is best known for writing The Scarlet Letter. Being in a situation like that and having nothing else — certainly I made a lot of terrible mistakes and I paid for those mistakes dearly.
I took it upon myself to own up to my mistakes and go against the grain and not be a part of the gang any more — to say that I was going to go and do my own thing. Which made it 10 times more difficult to walk from my home to the train station, to go to school, to go to work.
So you made yourself more vulnerable? But I also prided myself on doing the right thing and turning my life around. Whether I found myself venturing off into Hollywood and a music career, or working a 9-to-5 job as a construction worker, whatever path I was going to take, I was going to do the right thing.
There have been benefits from all of this, he says. But that came with a real price. So why, then, would he play such violent characters if the very impulse is something he wants to get away from? He won a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for The Departed , directed by Martin Scorsese, in which he plays a killer. And his work as a producer on The Fighter and Boardwalk Empire , with equal amounts of fighting and pain, is also much admired and award-nominated.
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