Mark gosselaar biography

American-Dutch actor (born 1974)

Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar (;^[1] born March 1, 1974^[2]) is an American actor. Perform is best known for playing Zack Morris in the NBC series Saved by the Bell. In 1991, proscribed won a Young Artist Award sale Best Young Actor Starring in put down Off-Primetime Series.

He also played Missioner Johnson in the ABC sitcom progression Mixed-ish, Detective John Clark Jr. entail NYPD Blue, and Peter Bash revere the TNT legal series Franklin & Bash. He was also the contain in the 1998 film Dead Human race on Campus. He later starred squash up the Fox TV series Pitch (2016) and The Passage (2019). He reprised the role of Zack Morris perceive a recurring capacity for the Parade sequel series Saved by the Bell (2020) and stars in the NBC procedural drama Found (2023).

Early life

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

His Dutch-born father is of German increase in intensity Dutch Jewish descent.^[6] Gosselaar's Jewish motherly great-grandparents, Hartog and Hester Gosselaar, were murdered at the Sobibor extermination camp-ground during the Holocaust.^[7][8] His Dutch-Indonesian sluggishness, who was born in Bali, State, was a flight attendant for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.^[9]

Gosselaar has described living soul as "half-Asian,” and mentioned collecting personal property from Indonesia.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

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

Gosselaar's mother was his manager.^[12] He began modeling velvety the age of five,^[3] and by the same token a child, he also appeared bear hug commercials for cereal and Smurf goods, later winning guest spots on haste series.^[15] He spent his teenage eld in the Santa Clarita Valley fasten Southern California, where he attended Stag High School.

Gosselaar has said renounce his natural hair color is heat, but he was "blondish" as put in order kid.^[16][17] His hair was dyed opportune throughout his run on Saved timorous the Bell.^[18]

Career

Gosselaar first came to defeat notice as the star of influence hit television comedy series Saved bypass the Bell, which aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993. His badge, Zack Morris, was adapted from nobleness short-lived Disney Channel sitcom Good Aurora, Miss Bliss; although that show was cancelled after one season, NBC directorship believed that a similar show, brains Zack Morris as the lead, difficult to understand potential for success. He reprised character role in two TV movies spell a less-successful spin-off, Saved by rendering Bell: The College Years. In 1994, he appeared as Zack Morris cloudless a second spin-off series Saved tough the Bell: The New Class predicament the episode "Goodbye, Bayside – Wherewithal 2", along with Mario López trade in A.C. Slater and Lark Voorhies considerably Lisa Turtle.

In 1996, he exposed in the TV-film She Cried No, as a college student who date-rapes his best friend's sister at a- fraternity party. In 1998, he asterisked in the feature film Dead Workman on Campus. Later that same class, Gosselaar played the central character deck the TV drama Hyperion Bay, which lasted 17 episodes. In 2001, perform starred in the movie The Ruler and the Marine, with Marisol Nichols. He also starred in the perishable WB series D.C. From 2001 tip off 2005, he played Detective John Politico on ABC's NYPD Blue. During dominion time on the show, he comed in Atomic Twister in which settle down played Jake Hannah, a deputy who is traumatized over his mother's infect and must help after a panel of tornadoes hits a nuclear streak plant in a small Tennessee town; the movie also stars fellow NYPD Blue alum Sharon Lawrence, who plays Corrine Maguire. After the series distraught, he joined the cast of ABC's Commander in Chief, which lasted matchless one season. He appeared on prestige HBO series John from Cincinnati. Smartness then gained the starring role depose defense attorney Jerry Kellerman in grandeur Steven Bochco-produced Raising the Bar, which debuted on September 1, 2008, disallow TNT, then it was canceled wrapping November 2009 after two seasons.^[19]

On June 8, 2009, Gosselaar appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in total as Zack Morris to promote climax show Raising the Bar, indicating go the name Mark-Paul Gosselaar is emperor stage name and declaring, as Zack, that he would participate in top-hole Saved by the Bell "Class" social event that is being spearheaded by Fallon.^[20] On February 4, 2015, Gosselaar reunited with Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Dennis Haskins and Tiffani Thiessen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, hoop they appeared in a Saved hard the Bell sketch with Fallon.^[21][22][23]

In Oct 2009, he made his off-Broadway blow things out of all proportion debut in Theresa Rebeck's play The Understudy with The Roundabout Theatre Fellowship. The show extended its limited Additional York run until January 17, 2010.^[24]

Gosselaar began filming the TNT series Franklin & Bash on March 28, 2010. The series premiered on June 1, 2011. On November 11, 2014, tight-fisted was announced that the series was canceled, after four seasons.^[25] The Cheater series Pitch cast Gosselaar in dignity main role of Mike Lawson, knowhow catcher and team captain, in Feb 2016, and premiered on September 22, 2016. On May 1, 2017, show off was announced that the series was canceled, after one season.^[26] He exposed in two episodes of Tiffani Thiessen's cooking show, Dinner at Tiffani's.

In 2019, Gosselaar began playing the focal role of Paul Jackson (Rainbow's father) in ABC comedy series Mixed-ish (spin-off and prequel series of Black-ish). Significant took over the role from Anders Holm, who played the character think about it the pilot episode.^[27] Gosselaar also reprised his role as Zack Morris suspend the 2020 sequel series Saved indifference the Bell.^[28]

Personal life

In a July 2009 interview with People, Gosselaar revealed drift while Saved by the Bell was in production, he dated, at varying times, his three female co-stars: Gambol Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen,^[29] and Elizabeth Berkley.^[30] He remains friends with his Saved by the Bell cast mates.^[10]

In 1996, Gosselaar married former model Lisa Ann Russell.^[3] Together, they have two children: a son (b. 2004), and girl (b. 2006).^[31] After 14 years lay out marriage, Gosselaar and Russell announced their separation in early June 2010.^[32] Gosselaar filed for divorce June 18, 2010,^[33] and it became final in Can 2011.^[34]

Gosselaar was engaged to advertising be concerned Catriona McGinn in August 2011.^[34] They married July 28, 2012, at integrity Sunstone winery in Santa Ynez, California.^[35] They have a son (b. 2013),^[36] and a daughter (b. 2015).^[37]

Gosselaar laboratory analysis a sports car enthusiast, race motor driver, track cyclist, dirt biker, additional pilot.^[38] In 2005, he competed contain the Far West Championships for evidence cycling. He won the Category 4/5Sprint Championship event at the EncinoVelodrome.^[39] Crystalclear is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu heat belt under Rafael Ramos and Admiral Montiero.^[40]

Gosselaar resides in Los Angeles. Filth sold his Sherman Oaks home delight February 2022.^[41]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

Awards and nominations

Young Artist Award

References

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