On the left is Mark-Paul Gosselaar and on the right is Paul Walker of Fast & Furious. Both of these actors look strikingly similar. They also have the name Paul in their full name. They are Famous People That Look Alike or what we call celebrity look alikes.
Paul Walker
Paul Walker who`s real name is Paul William Walker IV was born on September 12, 1973, in Glendale California. He began acting when he was very young, appearing in many TV commercials. In 1987 he played Prof. Bennet in Monster in the Closet (1986). He then starred in the television series, Throb (1986). He also made guest appearances on several television shows including Charles in Charge (1984),Highway to Heaven (1984), Who’s the Boss? (1984) and Diff’rent Strokes (1978). Paul also had a role in the soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973). In 1987 Paul was cast in Programmed to Kill (1987) as the character Jason, and since then he has appeared in a steady stream of movies. He became famous in 1999 after his role in the hit film Varsity Blues, but later became best known for starring as Brian O’Conner in The Fast and the Furious film series. His other films include Eight Below, Into the Blue, and Takers. He acted along Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook and Matthew Lillard in the movie She’s All That (1999). He also appeared on the National Geographic Channel series Expedition Great White. He was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful Persons in the world in 2001.
Paul Walker was killed as a passenger in a car crash on Saturday November 30, 2013, in Valencia, California which is in Southern California. His friend Roger Rodas who was the driver died along with him. Paul Walker was 40 years old. Paul Walker’s publicist Ame van Iden confirmed his death, but said she could not elaborate beyond statements posted on Walker’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts for the time being. Paul Walker was a passenger in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT with his friend Roger Rodas attending a charity event for his organization, Reach Out Worldwide, in the community of Valencia in Santa Clarita, which is about 30 miles north of Hollywood when the tragic accident occurred. He has a daughter with ex-girlfriend, Rebecca, named Meadow Rain, born November 4, 1999. He has four siblings; brothers, Caleb and Cody and sisters, Ashlie and Amie. His grandfather Paul Walker, Jr. (aka. “Irish” Billy Walker) was a professional boxer, raced cars for Ford and is a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was friends with Kylie Tyndall & Keaton Tyndall.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Whereas Mark-Paul Gosselaar is an actor as well best known for his roles as Zack Morris in NBC’s Saved by the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years; Detective John Clark in ABC’s NYPD Blue, Jerry Kellerman in TNT’s Raising the Bar, and Peter Bash in the TNT series Franklin & Bash.
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. It was there he met his future real-life wife, Lisa Ann Russell, whom he married in 1996 in Maui, Hawaii. Most recently, 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). Mark-Paul 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).