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5 Unknown Facts About Mark Wahlberg(Photo Credit –Instagram)

Mark Wahlberg is definitely not your typical Tinseltown hardman. Surely, he kicked off as Marky Mark (the hip-hop artist and briefs icon), but he quickly traded his glitzy moniker for legitimate performance talent. Throughout the decades, he demonstrated he could tackle it all. Take, for example, soul-stirring youth stories like The Basketball Diaries to high-octane thrillers such as The Italian Job and Shooter.

The silver-screen performer has collaborated with iconic filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and even explored arthouse cinema (I Heart Huckabees). Yet, there’s much more to Wahlberg than blockbuster fame alone. As he rings in his 53rd birthday, let’s dig into five facts about him that might surprise even his biggest fans.

1. Mark Wahlberg Graduated At 41

If you think Mark Wahlberg’s high school dropout days were permanent, then no. At age 41, he went back to...

Mark Wahlberg couldn’t boogie his way out of the backlash to his appearance at the 2023 SAG Awards.

The “Boogie Nights” alum presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture to the cast of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” during this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on February 26. The predominantly Asian and Asian-American cast was heavily favored to win the prize.

Wahlberg was previously convicted of assaulting two Vietnamese-American men in 1988. Wahlberg, who was 16 at the time and allegedly high on Pcp, hit Thanh Lam in the head with a stick and punched Johnny Trinh in the face to steal alcohol. Per investigators, Wahlberg used racist language at the time of the attack (via Rolling Stone).

Wahlberg was accused of beating Trinh to the point that he lost sight in one of his eyes; however, those injuries were pre-existing and sustained in the...

Everything Everywhere All at Once continued its awards season tear at the SAG Awards Sunday night, Feb. 26. Three of the film’s stars — Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ke Huy Quan — won individual acting prizes, while the entire ensemble took home Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

It was this last award, however, that has stirred up some controversy — not because of the winner, but the presenter: Mark Wahlberg. As the predominately Asian cast of Eeao took the stage, Wahlberg’s presence raised eyebrows considering his...

Back before Mark Wahlberg was Mark Wahlberg, and even before he was Marky Mark, he was a teenage hooligan. In 1988, a 16-year-old Wahlberg attacked Thanh Lam, breaking a stick over his head and calling him a "Vietnam fucking shit." Running away from the scene of that crime, he then punched another Vietnamese man Hoa Trinh in the face so severely he blinded him in one eye. According to the police report, he then made a number of "unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks.'" Wahlberg was tried as an adult and sentenced to two years in prison. He was released after 45 days. Wahlberg is petitioning the state of Massachusetts to have this expunged from his record. "I am deeply sorry for the actions that I took on the night of April 8, 1988, as well as for any lasting damage that I may have caused the victims,"...