ACTOR · BORN 1969
Donnie Wahlberg
- Born
- 17 August 1969
23 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
All facts (23)
- #001
Donnie Wahlberg lost 43 kilograms for the role of Vincent Gray in The Sixth Sense (1999).
- #002
Wahlberg is currently developing a TV project that will tell the story of the boy band from his own point of view.
- #003
His siblings are Arthur Wahlberg, James M. Wahlberg, Debbie, Paul Wahlberg, Michelle, Tracey, Robert Wahlberg and Mark Wahlberg. Donnie was also named after his father, Donald E. Wahlberg Sr., which makes him a Jr.
- #004
He has two children with his ex-wife Kim Fey: Xavier Alexander Wahlberg (born 4 March 1993) and Elijah Wahlberg (Elijah Hendrix Wahlberg) (born 20 August 2001).
- #005
He grew up with former New Kids on the Block members Jonathan Knight, Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre and Danny Wood.
- #006
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.
- #007
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.
- #008
Sister Debbie died in 2003 at the age of 44.
- #009
His first film, Bullet (1996), in which he appeared alongside Mickey Rourke and former rapper Tupac Shakur, was considered too bad to be released, but it was eventually revived after renewed interest following Tupac's shooting death in September 1996.
- #010
He is the second husband of Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg.
- #011
He is Melissa McCarthy's cousin.
- #012
New Kids on the Block reunited in 2008.
- #013
He is a big Boston Celtics fan and a very good friend of Celtics forward Paul Pierce.
- #014
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.
- #015
He became engaged to Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg [16 April 2014].
- #016
He was always seen as the free-spirited, more worldly, urban member of New Kids on the Block.
- #017
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.
- #018
He is the son of Alma Wahlberg (Alma Conroy) and Donald E. Wahlberg Sr.
- #019
He is the brother-in-law of Rhea Durham, Lynette McCarthy, Joanne McCarthy and Amy McCarthy.
- #020
Donnie Wahlberg sang the song "The Right Combination" together with Seiko Matsuda.
- #021
Donnie Wahlberg is Evan Asher's stepfather.
- #022
Donnie Wahlberg is Daniel McCarthy's son-in-law.
- #023
Donnie Wahlberg is Jeff Wahlberg's uncle.
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