Mark Wahlberg
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, he was the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg. His mother, Alma Elaine (née Donnelly), was a bank clerk and nurse’s aid, and his father, Donald Edward Wahlberg, was a teamster who worked as a delivery driver; the two divorced in 1982. His paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, while his other ancestry includes Irish and French Canadian. 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 young teenager, Wahlberg participated in several acts of extreme violence for which he was charged, later claiming to have been in trouble 20-25 times with the Boston Police Department as a youth. At 15 he harassed a group of African American school children on a field trip by throwing rocks (causing injuries) and shouting epithets. When he was 16, while under the influence of PCP and alcohol, (again using racist language) robbed a pharmacy, attacked a security guard, and knocked a middle aged Vietnamese man unconscious with a wooden stick leaving him permanently blind in one eye. Wahlberg has said that he has no recollections of the incident because he passed out just before the police caught him. For these crimes, Wahlberg was charged for attempted murder, pled guilty to assault, and was sentenced to 2 years in jail at Boston’s Deer Island House of Correction, of which he served 45 days. In yet another incident when he was 21 Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack.
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