Looking at the name Mark Wahlberg on the list of actors with the highest salaries in 2017, few people would believe that he had a decadent time before choosing to turn around and become an adult.

Actor Mark Whlberg

Mark Wahlberg (full name Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg), was born on June 5, 1971 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a poor working-class area in Boston, USA. He is the youngest child in a family of 9 siblings.

The actor’s childhood was not very good with his parents divorcing. This pushed the actor to a psychological crisis. At the age of puberty, Mark should have been cared for and protected, but all he received was indifference from both his parents. Mark made mistakes and mistakes, hung out with bad friends and began his days of mistreatment.

Having been talented in music since childhood, especially rap, Mark was recommended by his older brother, Donnie Wahlberg, to join the famous music group New Kids on the Block. But not long after, Mark left the group and began his wild, depraved days again. At age 13, while still a teenager, Mark used cocaine. The school blacklisted Mark as a bad, disobedient, and hooligan child.

Today’s grown man was once a rebellious boy with a troubled past

Donnie pulled him out of the quagmire again by helping Mark form the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, at this time Mark took the stage name “Marky Mark”, being the main rapper of the group. In 1991, the album Music for the People was released, ranked 21st on the “Billboard Top 200” chart, was certified platinum and had the hit song “Good Vibrations” which reached the top of the “Billboard Hot 100”. single. This success has brought Mark countless lucrative contracts. The advertising contract with Calvin Klein helped Mark’s image spread everywhere. 

But then he encountered a scandal about gender discrimination. He was sued twice in court for his behavior and disparaging of African Americans at the age of 15. A year later, he robbed a drug store. After using hallucinogenic drugs, he almost beat two people to death – one person was so seriously injured that he was permanently blind, causing Mark to be sentenced to two years in prison.

During the days in Boston prison, Mark reflected on his life, his actions and his thoughts. And he realized they were all so bad, thugs or similar behaviors that made him feel disappointed in himself. From then on, he began to change his thoughts and change his life. Although he was sentenced to two years in prison, he was released after 45 days of detention. That was the big turning point in Mark Wahlberg’s life.

At the age of 22, Mark told himself that no matter how difficult it was, he decided to start his life again. Knowing that he could no longer have another chance to become famous as quickly as entering the music industry, he chose a “slow but steady” option. 

In 1993, Mark tried his hand at television. But nothing is really easy, it took 4 years later, in 1997, for Mark to make an impression with his breakthrough in the movie Boogie Nights. The role of Dirk Diggle with complex psychological developments was successfully portrayed by Mark, helping him shine and become a notable name. In particular, famous critics highly appreciated Mark’s acting ability.

In 2006, Mark played the role of Corporal Dignam in the film The Departed – a film that won the Golden Globe Award and received good reviews from critics. With his perfect transformation into the role, Mark received an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe and won the US National Society of Film Critics award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. 

His role as Corporal Dignam in The Boxer brought Mark his first Oscar

The second nomination came to him in 2010, this time as a producer of The Fighter . In this boxing-themed film, he is both the producer and the main character – boxer Micky Ward on his way to find success. The boxer received seven Oscar nominations, earned five times more revenue than his $25 million capital and proved Mark Wahlberg’s keen eye, contributing to bringing Mark’s name to the top of the Hollywood film capital.

However, he still owes his four young children a movie that the whole family can comfortably enjoy together. For that reason, Mark Wahlberg quickly nodded when director Michael Bay invited him to participate in part four of the sci-fi series Transformers, because this was an opportunity for him to be a hero in the eyes of his children. .

Mark joined Robot War to become a hero in the eyes of his children

Thanks to his role in this movie, Mark became a world famous star. The character Cade Yeager has many similarities with Mark as he was also a rash, ungrateful person in the past but tried to change to become a good father and husband. This made fans extremely emotional because Mark was able to let go of the past and become a family man.

Next, Mark began to try more types of roles instead of playing violent roles. One of these new roles was the role of “bad dad” in Good Dad, Bad Dad ( Daddy’s Home). This is the latest project of comedian Will Ferrell at the end of 2015. Released on Christmas Day, the work excellently surpassed many strong opponents to take second place at the box office with 38 million USD, only lost to the super blockbuster Star Wars : The Force Awakens (Star Wars: The Force Awakens).

Mark decided to try new roles such as the role of “bad dad” Dusty

The work also marks the reunion of the duo Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg since The Other Guys, a very popular comedy in 2010. True to the spirit of the Christmas season, Good Dad , bad dad brings a warm family atmosphere. Brad (Will Ferrell) marries Sara (Linda Cardellini) and becomes stepfather to her two stepchildren. 

Just as Brad started to get close to the two children, suddenly their biological father, Dusty (Mark Wahlberg), appeared. Dusty made no secret of his plan to push Brad away from the family and get his wife and children back. From here, tragic and humorous situations continuously occur.