Robert George Wahlberg (born December 18, 1967) is an American actor who has appeared in films such as '' Southie'', ''

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Life and career

Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Robert is the brother of Arthur, Jim,

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, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie (died 2003), and actors/musicians

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Donnie Wahlberg Donald Edmond Wahlberg Jr. (born August 17, 1969) is an American singer, actor and producer. He is a founding member of the boy band New Kids on the Block. Outside music, he has starred in the TV drama series ''Blue Bloods (TV series), Blue Bloo ...

. He also has three half-siblings from his father's first marriage: Donna, Scott, and Buddy. His mother, Alma Elaine (

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Donnelly; 1942–2021), was a bank clerk and nurse's aid, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Sr. (1930–2008), was a

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who worked as a delivery driver; the two divorced in 1982. His father, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, died on February 14, 2008. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, while his maternal ancestry is Irish, French-Canadian, and English. He has two children, Oscar and Charlie, from his marriage to Gina Santangelo. Wahlberg has appeared in films such as ''Southie'', ''Orphan'', ''

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'', '' Don McKay'' and ''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wahlberg, Robert 1967 births 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American people of English descent American people of French-Canadian descent American people of Irish descent American people of Swedish descent Living people Male actors from Boston

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People from Dorchester, Boston