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Gosselaar was born in [[Panorama City, Los Angeles]], the son of Paula ({{née}} van den Brink), a homemaker and hostess for [[KLM]], and Hans Gosselaar, a plant supervisor for [[Anheuser-Busch]].<ref name=sophronia>{{cite journal| url= http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20197053,00.html|title=To Bell and Back| last1=Scott-Gregory| first1=Sophronia| last2=Rizzo| first2=Monica| date=October 12, 1998| journal=People| access-date=August 11, 2014| url-status=dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141109034916/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20197053,00.html| archive-date= November 9, 2014}}</ref><ref name= bndn1>{{cite news| last=Lee| first=Luaine| title= Gosselaar, now all grown up, back on TV| newspaper=[[The Bulletin (Bend)|The Bulletin]]| location=[[Bend, Oregon]]| date=June 3, 2011| url= http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20110603/NEWS0107/106030339| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> He is the youngest of his parents' four children, and was the only one not born in the Netherlands.<ref name= bndn1/><ref name= tvguide1/>
 
His Dutch-born father is of [[German people|German]] and [[History of the Jews in the Netherlands|Dutch Jewish]] descent.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202928/http://www.vandenhaak.com/Genealogie/ParenteelGosselaar/ParenteelNathanGodslaars.html Parenteel van Nathan Godslaars] (Gosselaar family genealogy); Gosselaar's paternal grandfather, Aron (Arie) Gosselaar, was a Dutch Jew, and Gosselaar's paternal grandmother, Ida Ferdinanda "Itty" Kosel, was German.</ref> Gosselaar's Jewish paternal great-grandparents, Hartog and Hester Gosselaar, were murdered at the [[Sobibor extermination camp]] during the [[Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=4243262&language=en| title=Hertog Gosselaar| publisher=[[Yad Vashem]] Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=4243276&language=en| title=Hester Gosselaar| publisher=Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> His [[IndonesiansIndo_people|Dutch-Indonesian]] mother, who was born in [[Bali]], [[Indonesia]], was a flight attendant for [[KLM Royal Dutch Airlines]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Distractify |date=2019-09-24 |title=A Look at Mark-Paul Gosselaar's Parents Before He Takes on the Role of Dad in 'Mixed-ish' |url=https://www.distractify.com/p/is-mark-paul-gosselaar-mixed |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=Distractify |language=en-US}}</ref>
 
Gosselaar has described himself as "half-Asian,” and mentioned collecting things from Indonesia.<ref name="washington">{{cite news| title=Catching up with...Mark-Paul Gosselaar| url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/13/DI2008101301751.html| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| date=October 15, 2008| access-date=August 11, 2014| first=Mark-Paul| last=Gosselaar}}</ref><ref name="smiro1">{{cite news| last=Rohit| first=Parimal M.| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar Discusses Franklin and Bash| newspaper=[[Santa Monica Mirror]]| date=March 3, 2011| url= http://www.smmirror.com/articles/Life-and-Arts/Mark-Paul-Gosselaar-Discusses-Franklin-and-Bash/32309| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref><ref name="mpgl1">{{cite web| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar...From Outrageous Con Man To Reluctant Icon!| website=Mark-Paul Gosselaar.net| year=2005| url= http://www.markpaulgosselaar.net/articles/outrageousconman.htm| access-date= August 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A Look at Mark-Paul Gosselaar's Parents Before He Takes on the Role of Dad in 'Mixed-ish'|url=https://www.distractify.com/p/is-mark-paul-gosselaar-mixed|access-date=2021-09-09|website=Distractify|date=September 24, 2019|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar on His Time as Zack Morris | date=September 30, 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_TIg3chkk |language=en |access-date=2022-10-24}}</ref>
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Gosselaar speaks Dutch,<ref name=bndn1/><ref name= tvguide1>{{cite journal| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar: Biography| journal=[[TV Guide]]| url= https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mark-paul-gosselaar/bio/164720| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> and was fluent for a time, at home.<ref name=washington/> His parents later separated.<ref name=sophronia/>
 
Gosselaar's mother was his manager.<ref name=mpgl1/> He began modeling at the age of five,<ref name=sophronia/> and as a child, he also appeared in commercials for [[OreoCookie Crisp]] cookiescereal and [[Smurf]] merchandise, later winning guest spots on television series.<ref name="kaufman">{{cite journal| url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20117381,00.html| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Teen Star of NBC's Saved by the Bell Learns That Fame Takes a Toll| last1=Kaufman| first1=Joanne| last2=Tomashoff| first2=Craig| date=April 16, 1990| journal=People| access-date=August 11, 2014| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205805/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20117381,00.html| archive-date=August 12, 2014}}</ref> He spent his teenage years in the [[Santa Clarita Valley]] in [[Southern California]], where he attended [[William S. Hart High School|Hart High School]].
 
Gosselaar has said that his natural hair color is brown, but he was "blondish" as a kid.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barbuti |first1=Angela |title=What You Never Knew About Mark-Paul Gosselaar |url=https://www.thelist.com/727888/what-you-never-knew-about-mark-paul-gosselaar/ |website=TheList.com |access-date=10 March 2022 |date=7 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='Celebrity True or False' with Mark-Paul Gosselaar {{!}} The Rich Eisen Show | website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvXLatyrO4&t=76s |access-date=10 March 2022 |date=February 21, 2019}}</ref> His hair was dyed blond throughout his run on ''Saved by the Bell''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Messer |first1=Lesley |title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar: I Dyed My Hair Blonde Constantly for 'Saved By the Bell' |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/mark-paul-gosselaar-dyed-hair-blonde-saved-bell/story?id=24866987 |access-date=10 March 2022 |work=ABC News |date=August 4, 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
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In a July 2009 interview with ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'', Gosselaar revealed that while ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' was in production, he dated, at different times, his three female co-stars: [[Lark Voorhies]], [[Tiffani Thiessen]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barbuti |first=Angela |date=2021-12-29 |title=What You Never Knew About Tiffani Thiessen |url=https://www.thelist.com/719725/what-you-never-knew-about-tiffani-thiessen/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=TheList.com |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Elizabeth Berkley]].<ref name= ingrassia>{{cite journal| last=Ingrassia| first=Lisa| date=August 9, 2009| title=Saved by the Bell| journal=People| volume=76| issue=6| url= http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20299205,00.html| access-date= August 11, 2014}}</ref> He remains friends with his ''Saved by the Bell'' cast mates.<ref name=washington/>
 
In 1996, Gosselaar married former model Lisa Ann Russell.<ref name=sophronia/> Together, they have two children: a son (b. 2004), and daughter (b. 2006).<ref name=girl>{{cite news| url= http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1191724,00.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070303121149/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1191724,00.html| url-status= dead| archive-date= March 3, 2007| work=People| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Wife Have a Girl| date=May 7, 2006| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> After 14 years of marriage, Gosselaar and Russell announced their separation in early June 2010.<ref name=shira>{{cite news| url= httphttps://www.people.com/peoplecelebrity/articlemark-paul-gosselaar-and-wife-split/0,,20391026,00.html| work=People| title= Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Wife Split| date= June 3, 2010| access-date=August 11, 2014| first=Dahvi| last=Shira}}</ref> Gosselaar filed for divorce June 18, 2010,<ref name=oh>{{cite news| url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20397423,00.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628032426/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20397423,00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 28, 2010| work=People| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar Files for Divorce| date=June 25, 2010| access-date=August 11, 2014| first=Eunice| last=Oh}}</ref> and it became final in May 2011.<ref name="engagement">{{cite web| url=httphttps://www.people.com/peoplecelebrity/articlemark-paul-gosselaar-engaged-to-catriona-mcginn/0,,20517132,00.html| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar Is Engaged| last1=Leonard| first1=Elizabeth| first2=Monica| last2=Rizzo| date=August 10, 2011| work=People| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref>
 
Gosselaar was engaged to advertising executive Catriona McGinn in August 2011.<ref name="engagement" /> They married July 28, 2012, at the Sunstone winery in [[Santa Ynez, California]].<ref name=messer>{{cite web| url= httphttps://www.people.com/peoplecelebrity/articlemark-paul-gosselaar-catriona-mcginn-get-married/0,,20615664,00.html| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar Is Married!| last=Messer| first=Lesley| date=July 28, 2012| work= People| access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> They have a son (b. 2013),<ref name=leon>{{cite web| url=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2013/09/30/mark-paul-gosselaar-welcomes-son-dekker-edward| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar Welcomes Son| last=Leon| first=Anya| date=September 30, 2013| work=People| access-date=September 30, 2013| archive-date=October 1, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001193649/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2013/09/30/mark-paul-gosselaar-welcomes-son-dekker-edward/| url-status=dead}}</ref> and a daughter (b. 2015).<ref>{{cite news| url= https://people.com/parents/mark-paul-gosselaar-welcomes-daughter-lachlyn-hope/| date=February 18, 2015| title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar Welcomes Daughter Lachlyn Hope| first1=Anya| last1=Leon| first2= Aili | last2= Nahas| magazine= People| access-date=August 8, 2020}}</ref>
 
Gosselaar is a [[sports car]] enthusiast, [[auto racing|race car]] driver, [[track cycling|track cyclist]], dirt biker, and [[aviator|pilot]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barbuti |first=Angela |date=2022-01-07 |title=What You Never Knew About Mark-Paul Gosselaar |url=https://www.thelist.com/727888/what-you-never-knew-about-mark-paul-gosselaar/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=TheList.com |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2005, he competed in the Far West Championships for track cycling. He won the [[Road bicycle racing#Types of riders|Category 4/5]] [[Sprint (cycling)|Sprint]] Championship event at the [[Encino, Los Angeles, California|Encino]] [[Velodrome]].<ref name=velodrome>{{cite web| url= http://www.encinovelodrome.org/rfwtc05.htm| title=Encino Velodrome: 2005 Far West Championships| date=September 4, 2005| access-date=October 13, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080512083450/http://www.encinovelodrome.org/rfwtc05.htm| archive-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref> He is a [[Brazilian Jiu Jitsu]] brown belt under Rafael Ramos and Nelson Montiero.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Phil |title=Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar Talks About His Love For Jiu-Jitsu: ‘It’s Chess On The Mat’ |url=https://jitsmagazine.com/actor-mark-paul-gosselaar-talks-about-his-love-for-jiu-jitsu-its-chess-on-the-mat/ |website=Jits Magazine |access-date=30 October 2024}}</ref>
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