ACTOR · BORN 1969
Donnie Wahlberg
- Born
- 17 August 1969
- Known for
- The Sixth Sense (1999), Zookeeper (2011), Blue Bloods (2010), Dreamcatcher (2003)
24 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026
Donnie Wahlberg (born 17 August 1969) is an actor best known for The Sixth Sense, Zookeeper and Blue Bloods.
24 Interesting Facts About Donnie Wahlberg
Interesting Facts (11)
- #001
- #002
- #003
- #004
- #005
- #006
- #007
In 1999, during the teen pop revival, MTV tried to reunite the group and get them to perform on that years VMA's. All members were on board, except Jonathan - and so the performance didn't happen. In 2003, another attempt to coerce each of the boys to reunite was made for a one-night performance for the show "VH1's Bands Reunited." Jonathan this time agreed, as did Jordan - but Donnie, Joe and Danny all declined.
- #008
The group, initially called "Nynuk," eventually settled on the name New Kids On The Block after a rap song Donnie wrote for their first album, which flopped when it was first released. In response to the group's later popularity, however, the album would eventually sell more than four million copies.
- #009
- #010
- #011
Characters & Cast (1)
Career & Awards (1)
Life & Family (11)
- #014
- #015
- #016
Donnie produced, arranged, mixed and co-wrote "Music for the People" and "You Gotta Believe" for his brother Mark's group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, whose 1991 and 1992 hit albums included the number-one hit "Good Vibrations" and a multi-platinum album for the former. He also worked on the successful 1999 solo albums by NKOTB's Joey McIntyre and Jordan Knight.
- #017
- #018
- #019
His father was of half Swedish and half Irish descent, and his mother's ancestry was 11/16 Irish, one-eighth French-Canadian, one-eighth English and one-sixteenth Scottish. Donnie's paternal grandfather, Axel Simon Wahlberg, was the son of Swedish immigrants Axel Gustaf Wahlberg and Ida Albertina Nordstrom. Through his French-Canadian ancestry he is a distant relative of singers Madonna and Céline Dion.
- #020
- #021
- #022
- #023
- #024
He was arrested on a first-degree arson charge for setting fire to a corridor of The Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky with a bottle of alcohol (the hotel also appears in The Insider (1999) with Al Pacino). On 10 April 1991 he accepted a reduction to a second-degree criminal mischief charge and eventually, in exchange for the charge being dropped, made public service announcements about fire safety, drugs and drunk driving.
Related pages
- Dead Silence — Donnie Wahlberg comes up in the facts on that page
- It — Donnie Wahlberg comes up in the facts on that page
- Ted — Donnie Wahlberg comes up in the facts on that page
Continue through the archive
Sources & editorial notes
Reference databases
- Wikipedia
- IMDb
Information from external sources is independently selected, consolidated and edited by Arka Evren. Sources are listed for verification and further reading. Encyclopedia text is used under its licence (CC BY-SA). How we work