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He plays a devious criminal with a penchant for manipulation on gritty procedural show Found.
But this bearded actor was once a fresh-faced teen heartthrob back in the early 90s when he first found fame on the small screen.
He got his start as a child actor and has been working steadily ever since, appearing in shows like The Twilight Zone, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and NYPD Blue.
But it was his role on the popular 1989 sitcom Saved By The Bell that first catapoulted him to stardom.
As he is back on screens with his latest role, can you guess who this actor is?
![He plays a devious criminal with a penchant for manipulation on gritty procedural show Found](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/12/16/15/79036187-12871375-image-a-43_1702740920360.jpg)
He plays a devious criminal with a penchant for manipulation on gritty procedural show Found
![But this bearded actor was once a fresh-faced teen heartthrob back in the early 90s when he first found fame on the small screen](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/12/16/15/79036193-12871375-image-a-44_1702740926763.jpg)
But this bearded actor was once a fresh-faced teen heartthrob back in the early 90s when he first found fame on the small screen
That’s right, it’s Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
The actor looks unrecognisable these days from his role as Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell.
The show ran for four seasons and also starred Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkeley, Mario Lopez and the late Dustin Diamond.
It also spawned two spin-off shows Saved By The Bell: The College Years and Saved By The Bell: The New Class.
The series was later revived in 2020 as a single-camera series with Mark-Paul returning as Zack where he is now the Governor of California.
Mark-Paul previously opened up about why he doesn’t want his kids to follow in his footsteps to showbiz in a clip from the documentary Kid 90.
The actor was just 15 when Saved By the Bell debuted in 1989, revealing he learned early on that he was not in a kid business.
‘I remember walking on the stage of Saved By the Bell and the director was saying, ‘The minute you walk through these double doors leading onto the stage, you’re no longer a child anymore, you’re an adult. You have to act like an adult,” the actor said.
![That's right, it's Mark-Paul Gosselaar who found fame as Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/12/16/15/79036183-12871375-image-a-45_1702740933887.jpg)
That’s right, it’s Mark-Paul Gosselaar who found fame as Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell
![The show ran for four seasons and also starred Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkeley, Mario Lopez (right) and the late Dustin Diamond (centre)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/12/16/15/40327218-12871375-Revisited_Both_Frye_and_Gosselaar_are_revisiting_their_youth_in_-m-47_1702740952692.jpg)
The show ran for four seasons and also starred Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkeley, Mario Lopez (right) and the late Dustin Diamond (centre)
![The actor was just 15 when Saved By the Bell debuted in 1989, revealing he learned early on that he was not in a kid business (pictured with Dustin Diamond)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/12/16/15/79036241-12871375-image-a-48_1702740968933.jpg)
The actor was just 15 when Saved By the Bell debuted in 1989, revealing he learned early on that he was not in a kid business (pictured with Dustin Diamond)
He added that, at the time, he, ‘didn’t think much of it,’ but he came to realize, ‘we all know what that meant, is like, this is an adult business.’
‘That’s one of the reasons I don’t want my children in it is because I don’t feel it’s a place for children,’ the actor said.
Mark-Paul is a father of four, Michael, 19, and Ava, 17, with his first wife Lisa Ann Russell and Dexter, 9, and Lachlyn, 8, with Catriona McGinn, who he’s been married to since 2012.