Mark Wahlberg Trivia

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Birth name: Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg

Date of birth: 5 June 1971

Place of birth: Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA

Nickname: Marky Mark, Monk D

Height: 5′ 8½” (1.74 m)

Brother of Donnie Wahlberg and Robert Wahlberg
Named one of “People” magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in the World [May 1992]
Mark’s older siblings are: Arthur, James, Debbie, Michelle, Paul, Tracey, Robert, and Donnie. Robert, Donnie and Mark are from their mother’s third marriage with Donald Wahlberg.
Was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) but dropped out.
December 2001 – Bought a 5 million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills, and moved his mother in.
His music group, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, debuted on “The Arsenio Hall Show” (1989) in the early 1990′s.
[September 2, 2003] His first child with girlfriend Rhea Durham, a girl named Ella Rae was born at 4.am at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The baby weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 ounces.
Has a daughter named Ella Rae.
He said in one of the featurettes in The Italian Job (2003) DVD that he thought about doing the movie because it was going to be his third remake in a row (if you don’t count Rock Star (2001)) after The Truth About Charlie (2002) and Planet of the Apes (2001).
Is of Swedish, Irish, German and French Canadian descent
Narrated the documentary Juvies (2004) along with The Italian Job (2003) co-star Mos Def (Mos Def supplied poetry).
Was scheduled to be on one of the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Luckily, he changed his plans at the last minute, and drove from Boston to New York with some friends.
Dated actress Jordana Brewster for several years [1998-2001].
His older sister Debbie passed away just a day before his daughter Ella was born, on September 1st, 2003, leaving behind a teenaged son.
Has a tattoo of Bob Marley on his left shoulder.
Is very close to his mother.
He wears lifts in some films.
Was a member of the boy group “New Kids On The Block”, but left the band before they were famous.
His performance in I love Huckabees was voted best supporting performance of the year in the 2004.
Wahlberg was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean’s Eleven; Matt Damon played the role. The two later worked together in The Departed.
Wahlberg starred as a foul-mouthed Massachusetts State Police detective in Martin Scorsese’s critically acclaimed thriller The Departed in 2006, for which he won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor and netted him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
In 2007, he starred opposite Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night.
He starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening as Eliot Moore, which opened in movie theatres on June 13, 2008.
In 2009, Wahlberg played Jack Salmon in Peter Jackson’s film The Lovely Bones.
He married model Rhea Durham on August 1, 2009 in a private Catholic ceremony in Beverly Hills, California. They have four children together, daughters Ella Rae (born in September 2003) and Grace Margaret (born in January 2010), and sons Michael (born in March 2006) and Brendan Joseph (born in September 2008).

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