Mark Wahlberg

 Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5th, 1971),[1] former stage name Marky Mark is an American actor, businessman, and former rapper. He has won numerous awards such as an award from the BAFTA Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, nine Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.Wahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1971. Wahlberg was a part of the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch in the 1990s. They released the albums Music for the People (1991) and You Gotta Believe (1992). Wahlberg made his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and had his first starring role in Fear (1996). He received critical praise for his performance as porn actress Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997).In the early 2000s, he ventured into big-budget action films, including The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001) and The Italian Job (2003). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed (2006). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the sports drama biopic The Fighter (2010), in which he starred as Micky Ward. In the decade of 2010 He landed a number of successful comedy roles with The Other Guys (2010), Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015), Daddy's Home (2015), and Daddy's Home 2 (2017). He was also the main character in two Transformers films: Transformers: Age of Extinction (2001) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). He was the most-paid actor during 2017.Wahlberg was the executive producer on five HBO series, including the comedy-drama Entourage (2004-2011) and the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014), the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America (2010-2011) and Ballers (2015-2019) as well as the documentary McMillions (2020). He is the co-owner of the Wahlburgers chain and also starred in the reality TV series about the chain. In 2010, he was honored with an honorary star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.