Show v Person! Born Aug T7 1969 in Dorchester Msm Married to Kim Fey since 1999 two MM Xavier 9 and Elijah 1 feltli ' s ' " ' i r ' - p K ONG BEFORE HE made his first movie Donnie Wahlberg was relatively famous as one of die founding members of the pop Domia music sensation New Kids on the Block These days he’s starring as an appealing but Wahlberg dMntgoto day” ha said emotionally drained LA cop 1 want out in New Kids the Block oa the NBC series Boomtown and by age 22 1990 The When we spoke it was a busy it wtsover Taking ot Pelham One Friday for Wahlberg “I worked For me in a vary real way Two Three until 5 this on the NawKida mat Butter show” he saidmorning “And at) I had was college” 1998 Donnie also Purgatory a test to get my California drivhelped write 1999 Kg er's license I have a Massachuand produces Apple 2001 Bend of setts license” He was driving hit record for Me New Kids on - Brother s 2001 Boomtown 2002- - BK include Bullet 1995 Ranaom 1996 Black Circle Boyt from his home in the San Fernando Valley talking into a cell phone that was cutting out Who says being an actor is easy? Wahlberg — whose supernatural thriller Dneamcatcher brother Mark in 1991 After New Kids had had its run noa -- nnNT waked away it was a role in a1995 movie catted Bullet with Mckey with Morgan Freeman just Rourke and the 1997 Body Count 1998 opened— is one of nine kids lata rapper Southie 1998 bom to a Swedish dad and an Tupac Shakir that shifted his The Sixth course away Sanaa 1999 Irish mother in a working-clas- s Diamond Men section of Boston I asked toward acting 2001 la he surprised Triggermen about his days in New Kids “It 2002 will always be a part of me” it's turned out sowaHPYue Dneamcatcher 2008 he said “But I don’t miss it I still produce and I have a lot of by my whole career ” Donnie Things Include New friends I help out in music But said I thought would Kidaonthe it isn't what I want anymore" worn flikiM oNoi is Block IBM Boomtown which airs Sun- Thingsl dkWt Hangkf Tough 1988 Merry day nights is the creation of hold much hope for cSd"And Graham Yost who wrote die now finally Chriatmaa 1989 Step ky screenplay fw Speed and epi- he’s getting Step IB 90 hie California sodes of Band of Brothers (in driver's Face the Muaie1BM which Wahlberg starred as Sec- - Photo kf EaUir Mama for PAKADE: padoMt CmtMkfur ArtmUNant ttyti Ma b Froth Spoil aiSoktFahAmm:Jtmi K Hthm Loot mUki Fifth Avttmt ond Lieutenant Lipton) The show’s director is Jon Avnet who mad e Fried Green Tomatoes mid Up Close A Personal “The material is so good” said Donnie “And some Hollywood people don’t understand how hard we work These guys do” The stray is set in LA and deals with the interaction of cops paramedics beat teportera politicos— a single crime seen through a multiplicity of eyes Wahlberg plays Detective Joel Stevens a rising star young good-lookiapparently flawless But Don- - Vrnctm Ponder nie said “The flaws are hidden Joel is different His problems add a dynamic to the guy” Reviews of Boomtown have been very positive calling the show “powerful morally and hailing Wahlberg “It’s important that I’m ttIMiiita Witten mb i enber at the grrap gutsy-riv- eting” KiwIQftm flu Bock doing good work” Donnie said “And that my peers think it’s good work” B Tim tap It mbs miles ml stirs h III friBitlc MIC nrlis Jtaatura pM1 ' For more on Donnie Wahfcer eoimahdf m stop 10 MMCH aS SOOS MMOK MA0AZM1 |