Taylor Zakhar Perez Biography
Taylor Zakhar Perez is an American actor. He began his career in various television series before landing his breakthrough role in the romantic comedy flicks The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and The Kissing Booth 3 (2021).
Taylor Zakhar Perez Age
Taylor was born on 24 December 1991, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He is 32 years old as of December 2023.
Taylor Zakhar Perez Height
Zakhar stands at a height of 6 feet 1inch (1.85m).
Taylor Zakhar Perez Education
He received a swimming scholarship to Fordham University, but declined it to attend UCLA, where he majored in Spanish culture and community and minored in film and television.
Taylor Zakhar Perez Family- Parents
Perez was born in Chicago, and raised in Chesterton, Indiana. His mother is an aesthetician, and he is the sixth of eight children. Perez has Mexican, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean ancestry. In addition, he is half Croatian through his mother and partially Hungarian through his father.
Taylor Zakhar Perez Career
In 2020, Perez plays Marco Valentin Peña in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth 2, opposite Joey King as a love interest who helps King’s heroine win a dancing contest to fund her college studies in Boston. He studied guitar and choreography in preparation for his role. It was the most-streamed video on Netflix in its first weekend (the first film rated third), and it finished second in its second weekend, with Forbes describing it as “one of the most popular movies ever on the platform.”In October 2020, Netflix announced that 66 million households viewed the film during its first four weeks of availability. At the commencement of the COVID-19 epidemic, Perez collaborated with Variant Malibu, a 3D technology company, to create masks.
He also collaborated on mask designs with Joel Courtney, Joey King, Meganne Young, and Maisie Richardson-Sellers, who appear in The Kissing Booth 2. The revenues benefitted a Chicago organization that assists disadvantaged children, adults, and families with disabled children in the Hispanic community. Perez returned to his role in The Kissing Booth 3 in 2021. In 2022, Perez appeared in HBO Max’s comedy series Minx as Shane Brody, a firefighter who becomes the frontrunner for the cover of the first pornographic magazine for women in Los Angeles. Perez remarked of the difficulty he encountered while playing the character, “The biggest thing was grounding him, making him likable, and also playing against the line.”Perez later appeared in the gaming comedy film 1Up starring Ruby Rose.
In 2023, Perez played Alex Claremont-Diaz, the first son of the United States, in Amazon Prime Video’s Red, White, and Royal Blue, opposite Nicholas Galitzine. Wendy Ide of The Observer lauded Perez and Galitzine’s magnetism, which she attributed to the film’s appeal: “It turns out that watching two impossibly beautiful boys making cow eyes at each other might be just the escapist pulp we need right now.”
Taylor Zakhar Perez Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.
Taylor Zakhar Perez Movies and TV Shows
2020 The Kissing Booth 2
2021 The Kissing Booth 3
2022 1Up
2023 Red, White & Royal Blue
2012 iCarly
2013 Suburgatory
2014 Alpha House
Awkward
2015 Young & Hungry
2016 Code Black
12 Deadly Days Zac
Cruel Intentions
2017 Embeds
High Expectasians
2018 Scandal
2022 Min