Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar (born March 1, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Zack Morris on NBC's Saved by the Bell, detective John Clark on NYPD Blue, and more recently as Jerry Kellerman on TNT's Raising the Bar.
Gosselaar was born in Panorama City, California. His father Hans is Dutch and his mother Paula is an Indonesian (previously a colony of the Netherlands) living in Guam.
Gosselaar has three siblings. His parent...
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Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar (born March 1, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Zack Morris on NBC's Saved by the Bell, detective John Clark on NYPD Blue, and more recently as Jerry Kellerman on TNT's Raising the Bar.
Gosselaar was born in Panorama City, California. His father Hans is Dutch and his mother Paula is an Indonesian (previously a colony of the Netherlands) living in Guam.
Gosselaar has three siblings. His parents and siblings were all born in the Netherlands. He began acting at a young age. He spent his teenage years in the Santa Clarita Valley in Southern California, where he attended Hart High School. He spoke fluent Dutch when he was younger.
Gosselaar first came to public notice in the role of Zack Morris, the star of the hit series Saved by the Bell, which aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993. He reprised the role in two TV movies and a less-successful spin-off, Saved by the Bell: The College Years. In 1995, Gosselaar did a Cameo as Zack Morris in...
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