Mark Wahlberg and Wife Rhea Celebrate Daughter Ella's 21st Birthday with Rare Throwback Snaps: 'So Proud of You'

Mar. 15, 2025

Rhea Durham, Mark Wahlberg, Ella Wahlberg,.Photo:Mark Wahlberg/Instagram

Mark Wahlberg/Instagram

Mark Wahlbergand his wifeRhea Durhamare celebrating their oldest on her 21st birthday.

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Rhea Durham, Ella Wahlberg.Rhea Wahlberg/Instagram

Rhea Wahlberg/Instagram

In one final snap. the mother-daughter “twins” can be seen holding hands and smiling for the camera in a recent photo.

The proud dad and actor, 53, similarly shared several throwback photos of himself and his daughter to celebrate her big day. In the first few snaps, Wahlberg and Durham can be seen holding Ella as an adorable newborn, and she wears a little pea pod costume in another cute photo.

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“Happy b day Ella🥳❤️ 21 WOW🥳❤️ so proud of you🥰😘,” Wahlberg sweetly wrote in his caption.

Wahlberg’s costarHalle Berryrecently opened up aboutthe actor’s impressive dad skillson the set of their new Netflix filmThe Union.

“If one of his kids called in that moment, we’d be on a roll waiting to go, and he’d be like, ‘Hello’… He’s relentless at that,” the actress, 58, toldAudacyin August. “He is very available to his children. He was talking to them all the time, all hours of the night.”

Berry, who’s a mom todaughter Nahla Ariela and son Maceo-Robert, continued to praise her costar for his ability to be “prepared” and “professional” amid his variety of responsibilities.

“He does a hundred things too, like all these businesses and stuff,” Berry said of Wahlberg. “He [is] flying somewhere and he comes back, but he comes back prepared. Like, you think somebody’s doing all this stuff he’s doing, he’d kind of be phoning it in. But he really knows his stuff. He’s prepared. And it was nice to work with people that are professional, ‘cause it doesn’t always happen today.”

source: people.com