Mark Wahlberg (Mark Wahlberg)

Born June 5, 1971 in Dorchester (Massachusetts, USA), in a large family of trade union activist. School threw at sixteen, had to work hard as a bricklayer, had trouble with the law. Not long after working in the group "New Kids on the Block" with his brother Donnie, Mark Wahlberg, organized his group - "Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch". Recorded under the name Marks Mark two successful solo albums - "Music For the People" (1991) and "You Gotta Believe" (1992), he became famous as one of the first white rap performers. Widespread fame, his single "Good Vibrations". In 1992, Mark Wahlberg also successfully tried his hand at modeling business, advertising with Kate Moss candid underwear from Calvin Klein.
In 1993, the popular singer made his debut as an actor, having played in the television movie "Replacement". That role went unnoticed, which is not true of the following works - in the film "Renaissance Man", which starred Danny DeVito, and in the sports drama "The Basketball Diaries". Soon, Mark Wahlberg offered to play a major role in the film by James Foley's "Fear", where his partner was Reese Witherspoon. But the real breakthrough in the "great movie" for Mark Wahlberg was the role of Dirk Digglera in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights", devoted to porn 1970
. In 1999, screens out two films with the actor - "corrupt" by James Foley and "Three Kings" by David Russell, . and in 2000, audience success accompanied by a picture of Wolfgang Petersen's "Perfect Storm", . in which Mark Wahlberg played a major role.,