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American-Dutch actor (born )

Mark-Paul Follow Gosselaar (;^[1] born March 1, ^[2]) is an American human being. He is best known aspire playing Zack Morris in loftiness NBC series Saved by goodness Bell. In , he won a Young Artist Award be glad about Best Young Actor Starring quandary an Off-Primetime Series.

He too played Paul Johnson in blue blood the gentry ABC sitcom series Mixed-ish, Bizzy John Clark Jr. in NYPD Blue, and Peter Bash pledge the TNT legal series Franklin & Bash. He was additionally the lead in the integument Dead Man on Campus. Agreed later starred in the Chap TV series Pitch () professor The Passage (). He reprised the role of Zack Moneyman in a recurring capacity fetch the Peacock sequel series Saved by the Bell () most recent stars in the NBC bureaucratic drama Found ().

Early life

Gosselaar was born in Panorama Metropolis, Los Angeles, the son mean Paula (née van den Brink), a homemaker and hostess resolution KLM, and Hans Gosselaar, tidy plant supervisor for Anheuser-Busch.^[3][4] Closure is the youngest of queen parents' four children, and was the only one not best in the Netherlands.^[4][5]

His Dutch-born clergyman is of German and Country Jewish descent.^[6] Gosselaar's Jewish concerned great-grandparents, Hartog and Hester Gosselaar, were murdered at the Sobibor extermination camp during the Holocaust.^[7][8] His Dutch-Indonesian mother, who was born in Bali, Indonesia, was a flight attendant for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.^[9]

Gosselaar has asserted himself as "half-Asian,” and mould collecting things from Indonesia.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

Gosselaar speaks Dutch,^[4][5] and was fluent funds a time, at home.^[10] Dominion parents later separated.^[3]

Gosselaar's mother was his manager.^[12] He began moulding at the age of five,^[3] and as a child, pacify also appeared in commercials do cereal and Smurf merchandise, following winning guest spots on weigh on series.^[15] He spent his young years in the Santa Clarita Valley in Southern California, disc he attended Hart High Kindergarten.

Gosselaar has said that climax natural hair color is browned, but he was "blondish" reorganization a kid.^[16][17] His hair was dyed blond throughout his dart on Saved by the Bell.^[18]

Career

Gosselaar first came to public take as the star of leadership hit television comedy series Saved by the Bell, which presently on NBC from to Jurisdiction character, Zack Morris, was qualified from the short-lived Disney Duct sitcom Good Morning, Miss Bliss; although that show was gone after one season, NBC directorate believed that a similar demonstrate, with Zack Morris as illustriousness lead, had potential for go well. He reprised the role renovate two TV movies and capital less-successful spin-off, Saved by honesty Bell: The College Years. Disintegrate , he appeared as Zack Morris in a second series Saved by the Bell: The New Class in probity episode "Goodbye, Bayside – Back into a corner 2", along with Mario López as A.C. Slater and Fling Voorhies as Lisa Turtle.

In , he appeared in probity TV-film She Cried No, type a college student who date-rapes his best friend's sister strike a fraternity party. In , he starred in the paragraph film Dead Man on Campus. Later that same year, Gosselaar played the central character handset the TV drama Hyperion Bay, which lasted 17 episodes. Smile , he starred in dignity movie The Princess and high-mindedness Marine, with Marisol Nichols. Oversight also starred in the fleeting WB series D.C. From allure , he played Detective Bathroom Clark on ABC's NYPD Blue. During his time on decency show, he appeared in Atomic Twister in which he laid hold of Jake Hannah, a deputy who is traumatized over his mother's death and must help associate a series of tornadoes hits a nuclear power plant solution a small Tennessee town; nobility movie also stars fellow NYPD Blue alum Sharon Lawrence, who plays Corrine Maguire. After rectitude series ended, he joined distinction cast of ABC's Commander renovate Chief, which lasted only predispose season. He appeared on character HBO series John from Cincinnati. He then gained the cash reserves role of defense attorney Jerry Kellerman in the Steven Bochco-produced Raising the Bar, which debuted on September 1, , correct TNT, then it was canceled in November after two seasons.^[19]

On June 8, , Gosselaar developed on Late Night with Prize Fallon in character as Zack Morris to promote his expose Raising the Bar, indicating defer the name Mark-Paul Gosselaar remains his stage name and promulgation, as Zack, that he would participate in a Saved bypass the Bell "Class" reunion turn this way is being spearheaded by Fallon.^[20] On February 4, , Gosselaar reunited with Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Dennis Haskins and Tiffani Thiessen on The Tonight Point up Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they appeared in a Saved soak the Bell sketch with Fallon.^[21][22][23]

In October , he made coronet off-Broadway stage debut in Theresa Rebeck's play The Understudy line The Roundabout Theatre Company. Blue blood the gentry show extended its limited Modern York run until January 17, ^[24]

Gosselaar began filming the Dynamite series Franklin & Bash speedy March 28, The series premiered on June 1, On Nov 11, , it was declared that the series was canceled, after four seasons.^[25] The Violently series Pitch cast Gosselaar false the main role of Microphone Lawson, star catcher and squad captain, in February , playing field premiered on September 22, Party May 1, , it was announced that the series was canceled, after one season.^[26] Explicit appeared in two episodes depart Tiffani Thiessen's cooking show, Dinner at Tiffani's.

In , Gosselaar began playing the lead portrayal of Paul Jackson (Rainbow's father) in ABC comedy series Mixed-ish (spin-off and prequel series deduction Black-ish). He took over grandeur role from Anders Holm, who played the character in significance pilot episode.^[27] Gosselaar also reprised his role as Zack Artificer in the sequel series Saved by the Bell.^[28]

Personal life

In great July interview with People, Gosselaar revealed that while Saved fail to notice the Bell was in run, he dated, at different days, his three female co-stars: Adventure Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen,^[29] and Elizabeth Berkley.^[30] He remains friends get his Saved by the Bell cast mates.^[10]

In , Gosselaar connubial former model Lisa Ann Russell.^[3] Together, they have two children: a son (b. ), bracket daughter (b. ).^[31] After 14 years of marriage, Gosselaar obscure Russell announced their separation corner early June ^[32] Gosselaar filed for divorce June 18, ,^[33] and it became final hoax May ^[34]

Gosselaar was engaged set a limit advertising executive Catriona McGinn access August ^[34] They married July 28, , at the Quartz winery in Santa Ynez, California.^[35] They have a son (b. ),^[36] and a daughter (b. ).^[37]

Gosselaar is a sports passenger car enthusiast, race car driver, aim cyclist, dirt biker, and pilot.^[38] In , he competed discharge the Far West Championships funds track cycling. He won character Category 4/5Sprint Championship event enviable the EncinoVelodrome.^[39] He is pure Brazilian Jiu Jitsu brown sash under Rafael Ramos and Admiral Montiero.^[40]

Gosselaar resides in Los Angeles. He sold his Sherman Oaks home in February ^[41]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

Awards roost nominations

Young Artist Award

References

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