Donnie Wahlberg Net Worth , Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story What are Donnie Wahlberg's net worth and salary? American acto...
Donnie Wahlberg Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story
What are Donnie Wahlberg's net worth and salary?
American actor, singer, and director Donnie Wahlberg has a net worth of $25 million. Donnie Wahlberg was first known as a part of the boy band New Kids on the Block. He also acts and runs a business.
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Category:
Richest Celebrities › Actors
Net Worth:
$25 Million
Date of Birth:
Aug 17, 1969 (53 years old)
Place of Birth:
Dorchester
Gender:
Male
Height:
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Profession:
Singer, Actor, Record producer, Film Producer, Songwriter, Music Arranger, Radio personality, Television producer, Singer-songwriter
Nationality:
United States of America
Early Years
Donnie Wahlberg was born Donald Edmond Wahlberg Jr on August 17, 1969 in Boston Massachusetts. He grew up in Dorchester, an area where most of the people were Irish-American.
Donnie is the eighth of Donald, a teamster and delivery truck driver, and Alma, a nurse's aide,'s nine children. Mark Wahlberg, who also acts, sings, and makes movies, is his younger brother. Wahlberg is connected to Nathaniel Hawthorne through his mother, but not very closely. When Donnie was growing up, his family was close, and every Sunday, they all went to church together. Having a big family did not come without problems, though. The kids often fought, and the family often didn't have enough money. In 1982, when Donnie was 12 years old, his parents split up. He and his brother Mark decided to live with their mother, even though their other siblings were already adults or had moved in with their father.
In the 1970s, when Donnie started grade school, Boston was in the middle of a big fight about how to get public schools to stop being segregated by race. Wahlberg took a bus for almost an hour every day to get to William Monroe Trotter School, which was mostly for black students. Wahlberg fell in love with and cared a lot about the soul and rap music that his African American friends liked. Michael Jackson was his hero when he was young. Wahlberg says that being bused to school was one of the best things that ever happened to him and his career. In the afternoons, he and his friends, who were his biggest influences, would write rap songs on the bus.
Who's New on the Block?
Donnie Wahlberg went to the same high school as his close friend Danny Wood. They started a rap group called The Kool Aid Bun here. Donnie tried out for a job with music producer Maurice Starr when he was 15 years old. He was having open auditions to make the first big boy band in the United States. Starr was impressed by the fact that Wahlberg could sing, dance, and rap, so he asked him to join the group right away. Wahlberg brought in his brother Mark, his friend Danny Wood, Jordan Knight, and Jonathan Knight, who is Jordan's older brother. Mark didn't like where the band's music was going, so he left very soon after.
The name of the group was "New Kids on the Block." They got a deal with Columbia Records, and in 1986, they put out their first record. Their song "Be My Girl" was barely played on the radio, and sales of their album were shockingly low. The group's second record, Hangin' Tough, came out after two years. It took a while for them to become popular, but once they did, their first song, "Please Don't Go Girl," was played on the radio all over the country. The single reached No. 10 on the Billboard lists. NKOTB went on to make two more hit songs, You Got It (The Right Stuff) and I'll Be Loving You (Forever), which reached No. 3 and No. 1 on the charts, respectively. By 1989, Hangin' Tough was the most popular record in the country.
Donnie was one of the first pop music "bad boys" who were like the ones we think of today. At the height of their popularity, NKOTB sold more than $400 million worth of goods and tens of millions of records. In the early 1990s, when NKOTB's fame started to go down, Donnie helped Mark get his rap career started. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's first record, "Music for the People," was co-written and produced by Donnie. "Music for the People" went platinum. Donnie went on to become an actor.
Donnie got back together with the other members of NKOTB for a reunion record in 2008 called The Block. It was the most popular song on Billboard's lists. To get people to buy the record, they went on a world tour. Donnie and the rest of NKOTB joined 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men on the Package Tour in 2013.
Career in Acting
"Bullet," a 1996 movie with Tupac Shakur and Mickey Rourke, was Wahlberg's first movie. In the same year, he played a robber in the Mel Gibson movie Ransom. In 1999, Wahlberg and Rose McGowan starred together in a small South Boston-based movie called Southie. It was first offered to his brother Mark, but when he was offered the lead part in Boogie Nights, he had to turn it down. Even though it was a small movie, Donnie's performance as Danny Quinn got him some good reviews.
Donnie got more praise for a small role in the 1999 movie "The Sixth Sense" and for his role as Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers." Donnie played in the 2003 movie Dreamcatcher, which was based on the Stephen King book of the same name. In 2005, Wahlberg was in the second movie in the Saw series, which was a hit at the box office. In 2006, he had a small part in the short-lived CW show Runway. Donnie starred in two TV shows in 2007. He was in Kings of South Beach on A&E and The Kill Point on CBS. In 2008, he was in the movies What Doesn't Kill You and Righteous Kill.
Wahlberg has been playing Detective Daniel Reagan on the TV show Blue Bloods since 2010. In 2014 and 2015, he also starred in the reality TV shows Wahlburgers and Donnie Loves Jenny. In 2014 and 2015, Wahlberg was up for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program for his show Wahlburgers. He was also up for a Teen Choice Award for Saw II in 2006 and a People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor in 2017. He oversaw the making of the television show "Boston's Finest" from 2014 to 2015. The last movie he made was the comedy Zookeeper, which came out in 2011.
Personal Life
In 1991, Donnie Wahlberg was accused of starting a fire at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, KY. Fans were having a party with NKOTB when Wahlberg poured vodka on a stairwell carpet and set it on fire. After Donnie promised to be in public service announcements about fire safety and drunk driving, the charge was changed to a misdemeanor and dropped.
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