Mario Lopez Biography, Age, Movies, Baby, Magic, Boxing and Interview.

Publish date: 2024-03-30

Mario Lopez Biography

Mario Lopez is an American television Host and actor. He has made numerous appearances in television series, films and on Broadway. Best known to portray A.C. Slater on Saved by the Bell.

He has appeared in many projects since including the third season of Dancing with the Stars and as host for the syndicated entertainment news magazine show Extra. Also hosted America’s Best Dance Crew for MTV. He co-hosted the second season of American Version of The X Factor with Khloe Kardashian, and he was the sole host for third and final season.

Mario Lopez Age

Mario Lopez Jr was born on October 10, 1973, in San Diego Carlifornia. He is 45 years old as of 2018.

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Mario Lopez Height

Lopez stands at a height of 1.78m tall.

Mario Lopez Family

Parents

He is born to Elvira, a telephone company clerk and Mario Sr., who worked for the municipality of National City.

Children

The couple has two children a daughter Gia Francesca Lopez  and a son Dominic Lopez. In January 2019, they announced her pregnancy with their third child.

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Mario Lopez  Wife

After six years of dating, Lopez married actress Ali Landry on 24,2004, at the Las Alamandas resort outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico but the marriage was annulled two weeks later. Later Lopez admitted that the parting transpired after Landry discovered Lopez has been unfaithful to her days before the wedding at his bachelor party.
Subsequently, Lopez dated professional dancer Karina Smirnoff, his Dancing with the Star partner from 2006-2008. In the fall of 2008, Lopez met Broadway dancer, actress and producer Courtney Mazza on A Chorus Line on Broadway in New York. They married in Punta Mita, Mexico on December 1, 2012.

Mario Lopez Net Worth

Jr. Mario has an estimated net worth of $16 million earned principally through his work as an actor and television presenter.

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Mario Lopez Career

Lopez was discovered by a talent agent when he was 10 years at his dance recital, and got into local ads and commercials before appearing on the TV screen.

Lopez began acting in 1984, when he appeared as younger brother Tomás in a comedy series a.k.a. Pablo. That same year, he was cast as a drummer and dancer on Kids Incorporated from three seasons. In March 1987, he was cast as a guest star on the sitcom The Golden Girls as a Latino boy named Mario who faces deportation. He was cast in a small part in the movie Colors as Felipe’s friend. In 1989, Lopez was cast as A.C. Slater in the television Saturday-morning series sitcom Saved by the Bell, a role which lasted five years.

In 1997, Lopez played the role as Olympic diver Greg Louganis in the movie Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story. The following year, he was cast as Bobby Cruz in the series Pacific Blue. Lopez left the series after two seasons and went on to guest star on Resurrection Blvd., Eve, and The Bad Girl’s Guide. In March 2006, Lopez joined the cast of the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful playing the role of Dr. Christian Ramirez. On July 18, 2006, he was released from his B&B contract. Later that year, Mario guest-starred as a plastic surgeon who drives Christian Troy to jealousy when he sees him naked in the shower in an episode of FX Network’s Nip/Tuck during the show’s fourth season, which began in Fall 2006. He also made an appearance on George Lopez as a police officer in late 2006. Lopez also guest-starred as a reporter for Extra Sesame Street in the Sesame Street episode “The Veggie Monster” in 2012.

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Lopez and Courtney Mazza have a reality show on VH1 called Mario Lopez: Saved by the Baby which premiered on November 1, 2010.

On February 4, 2015, Lopez reunited with Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elizabeth Berkley, Dennis Haskins and Tiffani Thiessen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they appeared in a Saved by the Bell sketch with Fallon.

Dancing with the Stars
In the fall of 2006, Lopez signed on as a contestant on the third season of Dancing with the Stars on ABC with professional partner and then-girlfriend Karina Smirnoff who was making her series debut. They finished in second place, losing to the team of Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke.

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In 1992, he hosted his first series on NBC, titled Name Your Adventure. He hosts the serial tabloid Extra, as well as the MTV reality shows America’s Best Dance Crew and MTV’s Top Pop Group. In the 1995–96 season, he hosted the second season of Masters of the Maze on what was then The Family Channel. Lopez is both the host (with Carmen Palumbo) and co-executive producer of Sí TV’s Dating Factory. From October to December 2012, he co-hosted the Fox singing competition The X Factor along with Khloe Kardashian. In September 2013, Lopez came back to the show as sole host for season 3. The X Factor was cancelled on February 7, 2014. From 2002 to 2005, he was the host of the Animal Planet show Pet Star, despite some difficulty with an allergy to cats. Lopez hosted the Miss America pageant in 2007, 2009, and 2010.

Lopez has also guest co-hosted The Wendy Williams Show and MCed the gala benefit for the 2010 Pageant of the Masters arts festival in Laguna Beach, California.

Starting in 2012, Lopez began hosting his own nationally syndicated radio show, ON With Mario Lopez, for Premiere Radio. It streams online daily on iHeartRadio and airs on selected CHR and Hot AC stations throughout the U.S.

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In August 2014, Lopez began hosting the Hot AC edition of the iHeartRadio Countdown.

Outside of TV, Lopez made his Broadway debut on April 15, 2008, in the revival of the musical A Chorus Line in the role of Zach.

Lopez has published three non-fiction books. The first, Mario Lopez Knockout Fitness, was published in 2008 and written together with Jeff O’Connell. His book Extra Lean followed in early 2010 and became a New York Times bestseller. Extra Lean Family was published in May 2012. He released a children’s book entitled Mario and Baby Gia by Celebra Children’s Books, on September 27, 2011. The book is about Lopez and his daughter.

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Mario Lopez Saved By The Bell

Saved by the bell is an american sitcom that aired on NBC from 1989-1993. The series starred Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies, Dennis Haskins, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley and Mario Lopez. He Starred as A.C. Slater in the film.

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