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He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg. His father, Donald Edward Wahlberg, was a delivery driver, and his mother, Alma Elaine Donnelly, was a nurse; the two divorced in 1982. His paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, while the majority of his other ancestry is Irish. Wahlberg had a Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School (but never graduated) on Newbury Street in Boston.

As a teenager, Wahlberg participated in several acts of violence for which he was charged, later claiming to have been in trouble 20-25 times with the Boston Police Department as a youth. At 15 he harassed a group of African American school children on a field trip by throwing rocks (causing injuries) and shouting racist epithets. When he was 16, while under the influence of cocaine and alcohol (again using racist language) he knocked a middle aged Vietnamese man unconscious with a wooden stick and left another Vietnamese man permanently blind in one eye. In an interview for Inside the Actor's Studio, he admitted that he has no recollections of the incident, because he passed out just before the police caught him. For these crimes Wahlberg was charged for attempted murder, pled guilty to assault, and spent 45 days in jail at Boston's Deer Island House of Correction. In yet another incident when he was 21 Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack.

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Hijo de Donald Edward Wahlberg y Alma Elaine Donnelly. Su abuelo paterno, Axel Simon Wahlberg, era sueco, mientras que por parte de madre es descendiente de irlandeses. Es el menor de nueve hermanos. Se graduó en Copley Square High School en Newbury Street en Boston.

De adolescente, Wahlberg ha admitido haber sido adicto a las drogas. Cuando tenía 16 años, hirió a un vietnamita y fue a la cárcel donde estuvo un par de meses. Wahlberg negó que el crimen hubiese sido provocado por racismo.

Durante su condena reflexionó sobre su estilo de vida y tras abandonar la cárcel, decidió dejar atrás su conflictivo pasado.

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