Is Mark-Paul Gosselaar half Filipino?

Is Mark-Paul Gosselaar half Filipino?

“Did you know that my mother — and I’m saying this as if like, I’m excited about this, but my mother is Asian — my mother is from Indonesia,” Gosselaar told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. “My mother is this tiny little Indonesian woman … People don’t know that Zach Morris is half Asian!”

Is Mark-Paul Gosselaar Hispanic?

With a breakthrough role on the seminal Saved By the Bell and a Dutch last name like Gosselaar, viewers might not imagine that Mark-Paul is anything but white. And while the Los Angeles-born actor’s father is indeed half Dutch-Jewish, and half German (the star is fluent in Dutch), his mother is Asian.

Is Zack from Saved by the Bell mixed?

But in an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” a few years ago, Gosselaar told viewers that is not entirely the case, since his mother is Indonesian. “People don’t know that Zack Morris is half-Asian,” said Gosselaar, who has reprised his role in a “Saved by the Bell” sequel that premiered last month.