Mark Paul Gossalaar

Gosselaar was born in Panorama City, Los Angeles, the son of Paula (van den Brink), a homemaker and hostess for KLM, and Hans Gosselaar, a plant supervisor for Anheuser-Busch.[2][3] His Dutch father is of German and Dutch Jewish descent.[4] Gosselaar's Jewish paternal great-grandparents, Hertog and Hester Gosselaar, were killed at the Sobibor extermination camp during the Holocaust.[5][6] His mother, who is of Filipino and Dutch descent, is from Bali, Indonesia.[7][8][9] At one point, Gosselaar was fluent in Dutch (his older siblings were born in the Netherlands).[3][10] Gosselaar's parents later separated.[2]
Gosselaar's mother worked as his manager.[9] He began modeling at the age of 5.[2] As a child, he appeared in commercials for Oreo cookies and Smurf merchandise, and later won guest spots on television series.[11] He spent his teenage years in the Santa Clarita Valley in Southern California, where he attended Hart High School.

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