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Mark-Paul Gosselaar at an event for Splice (2009)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Conan O'Brien in Conan (2010)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Franklin & Bash (2011)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Precious Cargo (2016)

Kim Delaney, Dennis Franz, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Nick Offerman in NYPD Blue (1993)

Dennis Franz, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Nick Offerman in NYPD Blue (1993)

Soleil Moon Frye and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Kid 90 (2021)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Saniyya Sidney in The Passage (2019)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar in The Passage (2019)

Elizabeth Berkley and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Max Battimo in Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dustin Diamond, Troy Fromin, and Mario Lopez in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Dustin Diamond in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Krystee Clark in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Lark Voorhies in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Dennis Haskins in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, and Angel Jager in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Leanna Creel, and Louan Gideon in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dustin Diamond, and Mario Lopez in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tiffani Thiessen in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Mario Lopez in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Elizabeth Berkley, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, and Scott Wolf in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Saved by the Bell (1989)

Hayley Mills, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Robert Pine in Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Dustin Diamond in Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Paul Koslo, and Robert O'Reilly in Highway to Heaven (1984)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Kylie Bunbury in Pitch (2016)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Mo McRae in Pitch (2016)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dan Lauria, and Mo McRae in Pitch (2016)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar was born March 1, 1974 in Panorama City, California. His father, Hans Gosselaar, who is from the Netherlands, is of German and Dutch Jewish descent, and was a plant supervisor at Anheuser-Busch. His mother, Paula (van den Brink), is of Dutch-Indonesian background; she worked as an airline hostess. His parents are divorced. He has an older brother, Mike, and two older sisters, Linda and Sylvia. In 1989, after a career with small movies and commercials, Gosselaar started in the teen hit Saved by the Bell (1989), co-starring Tiffani Thiessen who played his girlfriend, Kelly Kapowski, throughout the show's run. The characters eventually married each other after the show and its spin-off, Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993) , ended production.

He starred with Geena Davis in Commander in Chief (2005) for executive producer Steven Bochco, with whom he also worked when he starred as detective John Clark in Bochco's critically-acclaimed drama NYPD Blue (1993) Gosselaar's other television credits include TV movies Atomic Twister (2002), The Princess & the Marine (2001), For the Love of Nancy (1994), Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas (1994), She Cried No (1996), Dying to Belong (1997) and Born Into Exile (1997).

On the big screen, Gosselaar appeared in Dead Man on Campus (1998), as well as the independent films Beer Money (2001) and Sticks and Stones (2008).

In 2019, Mark-Paul began starring on the show Mixed-ish (2019). He returned in a supporting role for the revival Saved by the Bell (2020), with Mitchell Hoog as his son.

Gosselaar's sporting interests include cycling, motocross and auto racing. He is also an avid pilot. Gosselaar lives outside of Los Angeles. He married model Lisa Ann Russell in 1996 in Maui, Hawaii. The two divorced in 2011. In 2012, he married advertising executive Catriona McGinn. He has two children with Lisa and two children with Catriona.

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