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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor and former rapper. His work as a leading man spans the comedy, drama, and action genres. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards. Wahlberg was born in Boston. As a youth, he took part in a number of violent and racially motivated attacks. He gained fame as a member of the hip hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch in the 1990s, with whom he released the albums Music for the People (1991) and You Gotta Believe (1992). Wahlberg made his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and had his first starring role in Fear (1996). He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997). In the early 2000s, Wahlberg ventured into big-budget action movies, such as The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), and The Italian Job (2003). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed (2006). Wahlberg was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for portraying Micky Ward in the sports drama biopic The Fighter (2010); as co-producer, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. During the 2010s, he landed successful comedy roles with The Other Guys (2010), Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015), Daddy's Home (2015), and Daddy's Home 2 (2017). Wahlberg also starred in the Transformers franchise films Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). He was the world's highest-paid actor in 2017. Wahlberg served as executive producer of five HBO series: the comedy-drama Entourage (2004–2011), the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America (2010–2011) and Ballers (2015–2019), and the documentary McMillions (2020). He is co-owner of the Wahlburgers chain and co-starred in the reality TV series about it. Wahlberg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.
Kenjiro Fujikawa, a businesspartner of Tony Stark, who is really the superhero Iron Man, is kidnapped by government agents of Symkaria, under orders of the country’s dictator, Hate-Monger. Iron Man had the evidence that implicated Symkaria in this crime, but his teammates in the Avengers had no legal standing to invade a country and refused to go along. So then, Iron Man decided to form a new group of heroes, completely unassociated with the Avengers, to complete this mission. The heroes he chose were Thunderstrike, Psylocke, Kwannon, Microbe, Night-Thrasher, and Debrii. These heroes rescued Kenjiro from the Hate-Monger and destroyed the weapon he forced Kenjiro to build: a satellite that projects mind-altering “hate rays.” When confronted by government officials, the Avengers denied all accusations of their involvement in the raid of a foreign nation. These assembled heroes call themselves the “New Warriors” and continue to fight evil as the Avengers’ “denied-ops” division.
