Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, producer, businessman, former model and rapper. Mark was known as Marky Mark in his early career as frontman for the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, releasing the albums "Music for the People" and "You Gotta Believe". Wahlberg later transitioned to acting, appearing in films such as the drama "Boogie Nights" and the satirical war comedy-drama "Three Kings" during the 1990's. In the 2000's, he starred in the biographical disaster drama "The Perfect Storm", the science fiction film "Planet of the Apes", the heist film "The Italian Job", and the Martin Scorsese-directed neo-noir crime drama "The Departed", for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In the 2010's, he starred in the action comedy "The Other Guys" alongside Will Ferrell, the biographical sports drama "The Fighter" (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination as a producer for Best Picture), the comedy "Ted", the war film "Lone Survivor", the crime comedy "Pain & Gain", the science fiction action film "Transformers: Age of Extinction", the disaster film "Deepwater Horizon", and the thriller "Patriots Day".

A portrait of Bob Marley as well as one of his favorite songs by the reggae legend ("One Love") is inked on Mark Wahlberg's upper left arm. Wahlberg later had it removed to deter his children from wanting to get tattoos of their own.

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