Donald Edmond "Donnie" Wahlberg, Jr. (born August 17, 1969) is an American singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block . His background includes music, feature films, and television. Donnie has had featured roles in the Saw films, Boomtown and Righteous Kill, additionally acting in the award-winning World War II miniseries Band of Brothers.
He was born in the Dorchester neighborhoo...
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Donald Edmond "Donnie" Wahlberg, Jr. (born August 17, 1969) is an American singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block . His background includes music, feature films, and television. Donnie has had featured roles in the Saw films, Boomtown and Righteous Kill, additionally acting in the award-winning World War II miniseries Band of Brothers.
He was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, as the eighth of nine children, with older siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie and younger sibling Mark. He also has three half-siblings from his father's first marriage- Donna, Scott and Buddy. His mother, Alma Elaine (née Donnelly), was a bank clerk and nurse's aid, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Sr. was a teamster who worked as a delivery driver; the two divorced in 1982. He has mostly Irish, and some Swedish and French Canadian ancestry.
At age fifteen, Wahlberg joined New Kids...
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