Inside Jeff Wahlberg’s Euphoria Debut: Age, Heritage, Career Highlights, and Role Details
Deadline reports Jeff Wahlberg is joining Euphoria season 3 in a recurring role as production gets underway. The nephew of Donnie and Mark Wahlberg lands his most significant TV role yet.
HBO is quietly loading up Euphoria season 3, and the latest addition is a familiar last name with a legit resume: Jeff Wahlberg. Yes, that Wahlberg family. He is joining the cast in a recurring role for the long-delayed third season, which is finally shooting and headed for a spring 2026 release.
Quick snapshot: who Jeff Wahlberg is
- Born July 17, 1996 in Boston; he is 29.
- Family: fraternal twin sister Kyra and a younger brother, Daniel.
- After graduating high school around 2014, he skipped college and moved to Los Angeles to act.
- Mom, Bennie, is Dominican; dad, Jim Wahlberg, has Irish, Swedish, French-Canadian, English, and Scottish roots and serves as executive director of the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation.
- Through his dad, he is Mark and Donnie Wahlberg's nephew.
- This is his biggest TV gig so far.
So what is he doing on Euphoria?
HBO is not saying who he plays or how he fits in, which is very on-brand for this show right now. The production has been unusually sealed up; even Jacob Elordi joked on The Tonight Show that it is treated like:
"The JFK Files."
What we do know: season 3 jumps five years into the future and follows the characters as adults. Creator Sam Levinson has pitched the new run as a tonal shift:
"A film noir" that explores "what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world."
Season 3 runs eight episodes. Cameras started rolling in February 2025 after multiple delays shoved the premiere to spring 2026. HBO has brought in more than 18 new actors for the time-jump era, and Wahlberg is one of them. Recurring status suggests he is not a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo.
Why this casting makes sense
Wahlberg has been steadily building the kind of resume that fits Euphoria's vibe-shifting ambitions. He debuted back in 2012 with A Feeling from Within, but the turning point was the 2017 indie drama Don't Come Back from the Moon, which premiered at the LA Film Festival and drew strong notices. The New York Observer singled him out as a
"promising newcomer" who "sensitively played" his role.
The film sits at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, if you track that sort of thing.
In 2019, he played Diego in Paramount's Dora and the Lost City of Gold, where a RogerEbert.com review said he
"brings a deadpan humor as the increasingly mortified Diego."
He followed that with Cherry on Apple TV+ in 2021 from directors Anthony and Joe Russo, popped up in Hulu's The Girl from Plainville in 2022, and is fronting the upcoming horror movie Corpus. Euphoria puts him on a much bigger stage, and at a moment when the show itself is reinventing its tone and timeline.
The timeline, without the noise
- November 10, 2025: Wahlberg's casting is revealed, with season 3 already in production.
- Season format: eight episodes.
- Production start: February 2025.
- Premiere window: spring 2026.
- Premise shift: a five-year time jump into adulthood, with a noir-leaning theme.
Bottom line
No character details yet, but the combination of a hard reset for the show, a large influx of new faces, and Wahlberg's steady indie-to-studio climb makes this one worth watching. If you have theories about who he might be playing in the time-jumped world, hit me with them.
Euphoria seasons 1 and 2 are currently streaming on HBO Max in the U.S.