Mark-Paul Gosselaar is known for his television roles, most notably as Zack Morris in Saved by the Bell.
28 Facts About Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar was the lead in the 1998 film Dead Man on Campus.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar later starred in the 2016 and 2019 TV series Pitch and The Passage, respectively.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar is the youngest of his parents' four children, and was the only one not born in the Netherlands.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar's Dutch-born father is of German and Dutch Jewish descent.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar's Indonesian mother, who was born in Bali, Indonesia, was a flight attendant for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar speaks Dutch, and was fluent for a time, at home.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar began modeling at the age of five, and as a child, he appeared in commercials for Oreo cookies and Smurf merchandise, later winning guest spots on television series.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar spent his teenage years in the Santa Clarita Valley in Southern California, where he attended Hart High School.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar has said that his natural hair color is brown, but he was "blondish" as a kid.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar's hair was dyed blond throughout his run on Saved by the Bell.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar first came to public notice as the star of the hit television comedy series Saved by the Bell, which aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar reprised the role in two TV movies and a less-successful spin-off, Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
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Later that same year, Mark-Paul Gosselaar played the central character in the TV drama Hyperion Bay, which lasted 17 episodes.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar appeared on the HBO series John from Cincinnati.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar then gained the starring role of defense attorney Jerry Kellerman in the Steven Bochco-produced Raising the Bar, which debuted on September 1,2008, on TNT, then it was canceled in November 2009 after two seasons.
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On June 8,2009, Gosselaar appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in character as Zack Morris to promote his show Raising the Bar, indicating that the name Mark-Paul Gosselaar is his stage name and declaring, as Zack, that he would participate in a Saved by the Bell "Class" reunion that is being spearheaded by Fallon.
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On February 4,2015, Mark-Paul Gosselaar reunited with Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Dennis Haskins and Tiffani Thiessen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they appeared in a Saved by the Bell sketch with Fallon.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar appeared in two episodes of Tiffani Thiessen's cooking show, Dinner at Tiffani's.
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In 2019, Mark-Paul Gosselaar began playing the lead role of Paul Jackson in ABC comedy series Mixed-ish.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar took over the role from Anders Holm, who played the character in the pilot episode.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar reprised his role as Zack Morris in the 2020 sequel series Saved by the Bell.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar remains friends with his Saved by the Bell cast mates.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar filed for divorce June 18,2010, and it became final in May 2011.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar was engaged to advertising executive Catriona McGinn in August 2011.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a sports car enthusiast, race car driver, track cyclist, dirt biker, and pilot.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blue belt under Rigan Machado.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar sold his Sherman Oaks home in February 2022.