Donnie Wahlberg

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Donnie Wahlberg (2010)

Donald Edmond "Donnie" Wahlberg (born August 17, 1969 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American singer , actor and producer . He became known as a member of the former teen band New Kids on the Block , which was celebrated worldwide as a pop phenomenon in the late 1980s and early 1990s and returned to the music business in 2008 on Wahlberg's initiative. Since then he has appeared as their front man. Wahlberg's breakthrough as an actor came in the role of the mentally ill patient Vincent Gray in M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller The Sixth Sense (1999). Donnie Wahlberg is the older brother of actor Mark Wahlberg .

Career

Early youth

The son of the supplier Donald E. Wahlberg Sr. († 2008) and the bank clerk and nurse Alma Elaine Donnelly was born in 1969 in Boston as the eighth of nine children. He and his siblings grew up in Dorchester , a multi-ethnic working-class neighborhood of Boston with a high crime rate. Despite the parents' full-time employment, the family lived on the poverty line. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Wahlberg first attended the Trotter School and later switched to the Phillis Wheatley High School, which taught mostly destitute African American students as part of an integration project .

Career in the music business

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Donnie Wahlberg in June 2011

Wahlberg developed an interest in rap and breakdance early on and, as a teenager, staged dance performances on the streets in order to earn money. He was discovered in 1984 at the age of 14 as the first member of the pop group New Kids on the Block, which was one of the most popular and highly paid entertainers in the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The success led Wahlberg to numerous countries in the USA , Europe , Australia and Asia . In order to make the Japanese singer Seiko Matsuda better known in the USA and Europe, he released the duet The Right Combination with her in 1990 and landed a hit.

Wahlberg hit the headlines when he was accused of arson and arrested by police on March 27, 1991 in Louisville , Kentucky . He denied the alleged act of deliberately setting fire to a carpet in the renowned Seelbach Hotel with a Molotov cocktail . In contradicting reports in the tabloids, Wahlberg was accused of having set fire to the corridor of the hotel on the one hand and a room on the other.

However, the allegation was defused and finally dropped after Wahlberg had agreed to publicly inform young people about fire safety in television commercials and to warn them about drug abuse and drunk driving. The acquittal took place on April 11, 1991. In the documentary New Kids on the Block E! Hollywood True Story members Jonathan and Jordan Knight reported that Wahlberg only sprayed the contents of a fire extinguisher at the time. The white smoke had panicked hotel guests and led to wrong conclusions.

To enable his younger brother Mark a life beyond crime, Wahlberg financed his own music project in 1991 and helped him to get a record deal with Interscope Records . He also produced his debut album Music for the People , which achieved platinum status in the USA . The opening single Good Vibrations occupied the top position in the charts in the USA, Switzerland and Sweden and was awarded gold, as was the single Wildside, which was subsequently released . In 1992 he also produced the formation's follow-up album with You Gotta Believe and his brother's fitness video The Marky Mark Workout: Form… Focus… Fitness .

Almost fifteen years after their last public appearance together, Wahlberg initiated the reunification of the New Kids on the Block in 2008. The album The Block entered the US Billboard 200 chart at number two and reached the highest position in Canada and in the US Top Pop Album and Billboard Top Internet Album Charts. Since then he has been touring the USA and Europe regularly with the group, and in 2012 they also performed in Australia and Indonesia.

Career in the film business

1990s

After the New Kids' temporary separation in 1994, Wahlberg concentrated on the film industry. In 1996 he made his debut in his first movie alongside Gary Sinise and Mel Gibson as the kind-hearted petty crook Cubby Barnes in Ron Howard's Bounty . After a number of television films, he took on his first lead role in Southie Terror in South Boston . Wahlberg received special attention in 1999 in M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller The Sixth Sense , which also marked his breakthrough as a film actor. For the role of the psychological wreck Vincent Gray , who appears in a key scene as the former patient of the child psychologist played by Bruce Willis , Wahlberg lost 22 kg in body weight. After he had been seen in public with an athletic figure a few months earlier, neither the director nor the moviegoers recognized him. Wahlberg received a large number of positive reviews for his portrayal.

2000s

In the following years Wahlberg worked in other films and series, including in the ten-part television production Band of Brothers - We were like brothers (2001) as Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton and in the Emmy- nominated and Golden Satellite Award winner Boomtown series (2002) starring Det. Joel Stevens . In the role of the mentally disabled and leukemia diseased Duddits in the horror film Dreamcatcher presented Wahlberg 2003 again represents a figure that disfigured him visually in a way in which he was unrecognizable to many viewers.

Donnie Wahlberg 2011

In 2005 Wahlberg starred in the lead role of Det. Eric Matthews in Saw II and in the two sequels Saw III and Saw IV of the horror thriller series. In Saw V he also appears in a flashback. After further engagements in American films and TV series, Wahlberg starred in 2008 alongside Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in Kurzer Prozess - Righteous Kill . In the same year he starred in What Doesn't Kill You alongside Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo , and he also acted as a screenwriter in this production . Wahlberg made a guest appearance with all members of the New Kids on the Block in 2008 in Til Schweiger's medieval comedy 1½ Knights - In Search of the Adorable Herzelinde .

2010s

Since 2010 Wahlberg has played a leading role alongside Tom Selleck in the CBS series Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York .

synchronization

Unlike other actors, Wahlberg does not have a permanent voice actor. In his last films and in his series role in Blue Bloods , however, he was mostly spoken by Torsten Michaelis .

Other fields of activity

In 2006 Wahlberg read the audio book Prince of Thieves by the American author Chuck Hogan . In 2008 he dubbed the character Shepard in the video game Turok developed by Touchstone Pictures . Together with his brothers Mark and Paul, Donnie Wahlberg has been running the Wahlburgers restaurant in Hingham, Massachusetts since August 2011 .

Private life

Wahlberg was in a relationship with the sound engineer Kim Fey since 1991 and married her in August 1999. The relationship resulted in two sons (* 1993 and * 2001). In 2008 the divorce was officially announced. He has been in a relationship with Jenny McCarthy since July 2013 , whom he married in August 2014 in St. Charles , Illinois .

Filmography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
The Right Combination (with Seiko Matsuda )
  UK 44 08/18/1990 (5 weeks)
  US 54 07/21/1990 (13 weeks)

source

  • Robin McGibbon: New Kids on the Block: The Whole Story of the World's Youngest Supergroup , ISBN 978-3-442-41121-4

Web links

Commons : Donnie Wahlberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Kids - Highest Paid Entertainers The Free Lance Star, September 16, 1991, accessed November 1, 2010
  2. ↑ Chart source Good Vibrations ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. chartsurfer.de, accessed on August 13, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartsurfer.de
  3. ↑ Boybands mash-up to entertain Jakarta tonight The Jakarta Post , June 1, 2012, accessed on August 13, 2012 (English)
  4. ^ Donnie Wahlberg: The Hollywood Interview Venice Magazine, March 2003 issue, accessed November 1, 2010
  5. ↑ https://www.synchronkartei.de/darsteller/1862
  6. ^ Official website of the restaurant
  7. ^ New Kids on the Block: Donnie Wahlberg is getting divorced Die Presse, August 19, 2008, accessed November 1, 2010
  8. ^ Stephanie Webber: Jenny McCarthy, Donnie Wahlberg Wedding: Exclusive Pictures, More Details . In: USWeekly.com . September 5, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  9. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
personal data
SURNAME Wahlberg, Donnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahlberg, Donald Edmond (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorchester, Massachusetts