Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born on 5 June 1971, in Boston, Massachusetts USA, and is television and film producer, musician and singer, film score composer, as well as a dancer, but now best known as an actor, who has been named the highest earning actor over the previous year to mid-2017, with $68 million.
So just how rich is Mark Wahlberg, as of mid-2017? According to sources, in 2014 he earned $32 million, but in regards to his overall wealth, Wahlberg’s net worth is estimated to be $230 million, most of which he has accumulated from his acting career, but given recent successes, this figure may well be revised upwards.
Mark Wahlberg Net Worth $230 Million
Mark Wahlberg was one of nine children born to Alma, a clerk and Donald Wahlberg, a delivery driver. He studied at the Copley Square High School in Boston, but as a teenager, was rather troublesome child, since he broke the law numerous times, became addicted to cocaine and other drugs, and multiple times assaulted defenceless non-white people. He was placed in a House of Correction on charges of attempted murder, where he spent 45 days. When he was 21 years old, he was involved in another assault, and was sent to serve his sentence in prison. It was then that he decided upon changing his life. Wahlberg initially took to music as a way of re-creating himself. Consequently, he established “Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch”, with which he released two studio albums. Wahlberg rose to prominence as a rapper and hip-hop singer in 1991, when he released a debut album called “Music for the People” with his hip hop group, which featured the hit song “Good Vibrations”, which significantly contributed to the sales of their debut work.When the group disbanded, Wahlberg continued his music career with Prince Ital Joe.
When he ended his rapping career, Wahlberg decided to become an actor, debuting on television screens in 1994, when he joined a cast of Danny DeVito and Gregory Hines in Penny Marshall’s “Renaissance Man”. Wahlberg’s appearance brought him a lot of public exposure, and landed him a role in “The Basketball Diaries” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Lorraine Bracco. He then starred in “Fear”, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights”, “The Perfect Storm” and a variety of other successful films. Over the years, these have included noted roles in such films as “The Italian Job” with Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, and Seth Green, “Planet of the Apes” directed by Tim Burton, “The Departed” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson, and “The Other Guys” with Will Ferrell to name a few. More recently, in 2014 he starred opposite Stanley Lucci, Kelsey Grammer and Jack Reynor in Michael Bay’s sci-fi action film entitled “Transformers: The Age of Extinction”, which grossed ‘only’ $600 million at the box office worldwide, somewhat less than the previous films in the franchise.
Aside from acting, Wahlberg has taken to producing, and has worked on such popular series as “How to Make It in America”, “Boardwalk Empire” and “Entourage” with Kevin Connolly and Adrian Grenier, adding steadily to his net worth. Mark has now been involved in over 50 film and TV titles as an actor, plus over 10 of them also as a producer.
In regards to his personal life, Mark Wahlberg briefly dated an actress, Soleil Moon Frye, and since 2001 has been in a relationship with Rhea Durham, who he married in 2009 – they have two daughters and two sons, and the family live in Beverley Hills, California.
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