Controversial actor Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg turns 38 years old on June 5, 2009.  The actor also known as “Marky Mark” or “Monk D” was born in Boston, Massachusetts and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, he is the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie (died in 2003 at age 44), and Donnie.  His mother, Alma Elaine (née McPeck), was a bank clerk and nurse’s aide, and his father, Donald E.
Wahlberg, was a Teamster who worked as a delivery driver; the two divorced in 1982.  Wahlberg had a Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School (but never graduated) on Newbury Street in Copley Square in Boston. The campus now houses Muriel Snowden International School.

As a teenager, Wahlberg was implicated in several acts of violence and vandalism. At fifteen, he was amongst a group who threw rocks at a group of African American school children on a field trip while shouting racial epithets; the rocks hit their targets and caused several injuries. The following year,
Wahlberg robbed a pharmacy while he was under the influence of PCP. During the commission of the crime, he again used racial epithets. He knocked one middle aged Vietnamese man unconscious and permanently blinded another in one eye before he was arrested by the police.

But Mark Wahlberg’s life is that of a turnaround story.  Nowadays, mark is actively involved in charity and established the “Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation” in May 2001 for the purpose of raising and distributing funds to youth service and enrichment programs.  Wahlberg is a also a practicing Roman
Catholic.

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