Mark Salling

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Date of Birth: August 17, 1982
Height: 6'0"
Hometown: Dallas, Texas, United States
Best Quotes:

“Music is my wife and acting is my girlfriend.”

“I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservacy, specifically bird rehabilitation.”

“Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.”

Bio:
Mark Salling (born Mark Wayne Salling on August 17, 1982 in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor and musician. He graduated from high school in 2001, then attended the Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music in California, where he started studying guitar and giving lessons. He released his debut album Smoke Signals in Feb. 2008, and followed up with Pipe Dreams in Oct. 2010. But Mark is best known for his role on the hit TV series, Glee, on which he played bad boy athlete-turned-singer, Noah “Puck” Puckerman. Throughout six seasons on the show, he sang songs including “Sweet Caroline” and “Only The Good Die Young,” among many others.

Best Known For:
Mark is best known for his role as Noah “Puck” Puckerman on Glee.

Personal Life:
Mark never admitted to dating his Glee co-star Naya Rivera, but after he allegedly cheated on her, she keyed and egged his car. Model Roxanne Gorzela filed a lawsuit against him in early 2013, claiming he forced sex on her without a condom, and he wound up playing $2.7 million to settle the case in 2015. In December 2015, he was arrested for allegedly being in possession of child pornography. Mark has also been romantically linked to Audrina Patridge, Lea Michele and Selena Gomez.