37 Years After Bayside, Here's Where the 'Saved by the Bell' Cast Ended Up

Caption: Official logo for Peacock’s Saved by the Bell series. Credit: Universal Television, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

The students of Bayside High are back in the cultural conversation, 37 years after “Saved by the Bell” first aired, as a fresh where-are-they-now wave revisits where each of them landed. Their paths since the show’s 1989 debut have split about as widely as a class reunion can.

The Ones Still on Camera

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, the show’s Zack Morris, kept a steady acting career with roles on series including “Barry,” “Will Trent” and “Found,” and has said Brazilian jiu-jitsu now fills the hours he once gave to cycling and golf. Mario Lopez, who played A.C. Slater, became one of television’s most familiar hosts and returned for the 2020 reboot. Tiffani Thiessen, the show’s Kelly Kapowski, built a second career around food and lifestyle television alongside her acting.

The Ones Who Stepped Back

Elizabeth Berkley, who played Jessie Spano, returned as both a cast member and a producer on the 2020 reboot and has kept a steady screen career since. Dennis Haskins, the unforgettable Mr. Belding, finished a theater degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2015 and has continued sporadic acting and public appearances, though he was absent from the reboot.

Lark Voorhies, in Her Own Words

Lark Voorhies, the show’s Lisa Turtle, has spoken publicly about her life away from Hollywood, disclosing a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. She recently revisited the show’s legacy in the Investigation Discovery docuseries “Hollywood Demons: After the Bell,” and has spoken warmly about her late castmate Dustin Diamond. Her return has been on her own terms.

The Castmate They Lost

Dustin Diamond, who played Screech Powers, died on February 1, 2021, at 44, weeks after a diagnosis of aggressive lung cancer. His death remains the loss every “Saved by the Bell” retrospective returns to, a reminder that a where-are-they-now story about a beloved cast is never only a happy one. Thirty-seven years after the bell first rang at Bayside, the class of “Saved by the Bell” has ended up almost everywhere, connected now only by the show that introduced them.

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