Mark-Paul Gosselaar

About

Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar (; born March 1, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Zack Morris in the NBC series Saved by the Bell (1989–1993), its sequel Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993–1994), and the next-generation revival on Peacock (2020). For this role, he won three Young Artist Awards in 1991 and 1993, and a YoungStar Award in 1995, as well as other accolades.
He was the lead in the film Dead Man on Campus (1998). He played Detective John Clark Jr. in the ABC police drama NYPD Blue (2001–2005), Peter Bash in the TNT legal series Franklin & Bash (2011–2014), and Paul Johnson in the ABC sitcom series Mixed-ish (2019–2021). He starred in the single-season Fox series Pitch (2016) and The Passage (2019). He was the main antagonist in the weekly NBC procedural drama Found (2023–2025).

Gosselaar was born in Panorama City, Los Angeles, the son of Paula Gosselaar, a flight attendant for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines – and Hans Gosselaar – a plant supervisor for Anheuser-Busch. He is the youngest of four children, and was the only one not born in the Netherlands.
His Netherlands-born father is of German and Dutch Jewish ancestry. His Jewish paternal…