Donnie Wahlberg

• Birthplace: Dorchester, Massachusetts
• Birthday: August 17, 1969

Donnie Wahlberg shot to fame with the popular singing group New Kids on the Block, quickly winning the reputation as the group's resident bad boy, counting among his several run-ins with the law during the group's heyday an alleged arson in a Kentucky hotel (charges were subsequently dropped). While his greatest fame came with the pop group, Wahlberg followed his younger brother Mark's successful transformation from rapper to model to actor with a transition of his own, from singer to record producer to actor, somewhat surprisingly …more