floflandrin Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Date of Birth 17 August 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Birth Name Donald Edmond Wahlberg Nickname Donnie D Cheese Height 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Biography He was born Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. on August 17, 1969 in Dorchester Massachusetts, into a Swedish/Irish-Catholic family, the eighth of nine children of Donald Sr. and Alma Wahlberg. His parents eventually divorced and Donnie, finding himself already in trouble, found a positive outlet performing in school plays and became involved in varied aspects of theater -- acting, writing, and directing. At the age of 15, he became a member of the teen vocal group originally called "NYNUK." Donnie's younger brother, Mark Wahlberg, was originally one of the Boys but balked at the direction the group was taking and backed out. Following a false start with their debut album "New Kids on the Block," the teens persevered with a sophomore record and proceeded to hit #1 with the single "Please Don't Go Girl" in 1988. They continued to bombard the market with one-after-another "Top Ten" hits including "The Right Stuff" and "I'll Be Loving You Forever." Leaving the young girls panting for more, they became one of the hottest young singing/line-dancing groups to hit the late 80s/early 90s. The Boys went on to sell over 70 million albums worldwide, and provoke the spawning of other five-member harmony groups such as Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. During its heyday, Donnie played up his resident "bad boy" persona by tallying up several run-ins with the law, including an alleged arson at a Kentucky hotel (charges were dropped). He also delved into "body art" with numerous tattoos and body piercings in an effort to buck their already-cloying image. Amid intergroup dissension and Milli Vanilli-like charges of not contributing all the vocals to their albums, the pop band finally disbanded in 1994 -- partly out of frustration but also having outgrown the group's juvenile moniker. Unsure of his direction while attracting more trouble in the tabloids, Donnie, who helped write, arrange and produce brother Mark's Funky Bunch group's first two albums a few years earlier, switched gears. He rapped some and modeled some, then transformed himself into an actor, a route taken earlier by his talented bro. While Mark has turned out to become the bigger film star over the years, Donnie has stepped out of his shadows to receive raves and renewed respect for his own tense and compelling character work. He first showed up in big screen action. Making his debut as a "tough guy" thug in the Mickey Rourke urban outing Bullet (1996), the filmed was made in 1994 but not released until two years later. Usually cast as an amoral heavy, Donnie moved up the quality ladder with director Ron Howard's thriller Ransom (1996) as part of a gang of kidnappers who nab Mel Gibson's son, to their eventual regret, of course. His next repellent took the form of a drug dealer in the goth indie horror Black Circle Boys (1997), but the film came and went. After a couple of TV movies, he finally nabbed a starring role in the film Southie (1998) playing more or less himself as an Irish-American prodigal son who returns to the mean streets of his native Boston. The movie also featured another brother Robert Wahlberg who also was testing the acting waters. Ironically, one of Donnie's most powerful roles during this period was also one of his briefest. Seen in the opening sequence, he is nearly unrecognizable (having dropped an alarming amount of weight) portraying a deranged former patient of psychiatrist Bruce Willis whose sudden explosion into unfathomable violence sets up the clever twists and turns that turned M. Night Shyamalan's classic psychological thriller The Sixth Sense (1999) into a critically-acclaimed box office hit. Donnie's opening bit was mouth dropping and jarring in its horror. He also proved he wasn't a flash in the pan by backing up this perf with a major role as a WWII paratrooper in the critically-hailed ten-part epic "Band of Brothers" (2001) (mini), which won multiple Emmy awards (6). This TV role directly led to his casting as a gritty L.A. detective in the NBC dramatic series "Boomtown" (2002), an acclaimed series that didn't survive a second season. Since then Donnie has patented his unrefined intensity into a number of other films such as Triggermen (2002) and Saw II (2005). He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Kim Fey, and sons Xavier and Elijah. As a former teen heartthrob seemingly headed down a troubled and dangerous path after his initial success, he somehow managed to avoid the traditional pitfalls of drugs and self-destruction, and has since proven himself an actor with "the right stuff." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tinkerbelle Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 . reminds me when I was 12! gosh I loved him in the nkotb !! he's great as an actor ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floflandrin Posted August 31, 2007 Author Share Posted August 31, 2007 oh yeah, i was for Joe Mc intyre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMELita Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I was a fan of NKOTB (as were nearly all girls my age back then) but I liked Jordan best and Donnie just second best I was stunned when seeing "the sixth sense". I didn't recognized him at first, I just thought this guy was looking familiar. Then somebody told me afterwards that this was Donnie - so I had to watch the movie again of course Haven't seen anything of him since then, althoguh I thought he was playing beside Mark in "The Departed", but that was another brother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floflandrin Posted September 2, 2007 Author Share Posted September 2, 2007 i WAS A FAN TOO; i WAS CRAZY ABOUT joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tinkerbelle Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I can't believe the nkotb are coming back hehe do you think they stillc an dance ? for sure I 'll go and see them if they come in europe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floflandrin Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 YEAH ME TOOtoo happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMELita Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I can't believe the nkotb are coming back hehedo you think they stillc an dance ? for sure I 'll go and see them if they come in europe I'm not sure if I'm happy with it - could be a great comeback or could be getting quite ridiculous. But I'm sure as hell gonna see them if they're coming anywhere near my town Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floflandrin Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 it'll be cool i'm sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ashy<3 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I will say that their hit "Summertime" is SMOKING! I LOVE that song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floflandrin Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 old NKOTB fashionit's like it was 1990 again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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