Taylor Zakhar Perez Blog

  Continuing to kill it! Taylor Zakhar Perez made his Kissing Booth debut as Marco in the film’s sequel, which premiered in July 2020. Since then, he reprised his role for the third and final movie before taking on some other major roles. Keep reading for details on the star, including age, upcoming roles and more.  Who Is Taylor Zakhar Perez? The actor was born on December 24, 1991, and grew up in Indiana. While he was a competitive swimmer for years, Taylor eventually decided to pursue acting. “It killed my dad for a long time. I guess a lot of my choices may [have],” he told GQ in June 2023. “If I keep living for people in the past, I’m never going to grow and move forward.” His rise to fame came following his role as Marco in The Kissing Booth franchise. “I had expectations of a traditional rollout for a project like this because Kissing Booth 2 was 100 percent my breakout role, and you had seen these breakout … I’d say ‘star’ loosely, but you know what I mean,” the actor ...

 Making a name for himself! Taylor Zakhar Perez has been in Hollywood for a while, but his breakout role came alongside Joey King in the 2020 movie The Kissing Booth 2 where he played the character Marco. “Breakout stars … when it happens, you’re, like, ‘whoa.’ And so when you get a breakout in quarantine, it’s like, ‘All right, everything is just remote from the house, and you don’t really get to interact with people,'” the actor recalled to WWD in August 2021. “Everyone was, like, ‘Taylor, this is going to be great. This is going to be great for you,’ and then when it came, it was great. But then it just wasn’t the same, I think, as other people experienced, so it’s been very nontraditional.” Despite his quiet (so to speak) rise to fame, Taylor has definitely made his mark on the film industry, nabbing roles in some major projects since the Netflix franchise came to an end. However, acting wasn’t always in the cards for the star. He grew up as a competitive swimmer while working ...

Featuring Lacoste Spring Summer 2025, Via Issue 197, Rhythm Is a Dancer Written by Julia Zara  Photographed by  Nino Muñoz Styled by  Jason Bolde A mountain annoyed Taylor Zakhar Perez. The irritant was not just any mountain—to his credit, that mountain was Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. Perhaps the actor and mountaineer’s frustration was warranted. “You had to [climb] so slowly, because the altitude sickness got realer and realer the higher you went. I just wanted to run up this damn mountain. It was like walking in sand,” he laughs, flashing a charming white smile. He’s recounting a trek he made up Kilimanjaro in 2019 as he Zooms from his Los Angeles home, a cobalt blue bandana swathing his head and a grey dri-fit workout tee on his chest, a few days short of the actor’s 33rd birthday. VIDEO  “It felt like [I was] going crazy, and then, one morning, I woke up, and I saw Kilimanjaro. The fog came in, and then the moon came out after seven hours o...

          The versatile talent talks about Red, White & Royal Blue, The Kissing Booth 2, and his upcoming projects.         Justin French     Coat, shirt, Balmain. For decades, families with talented children have come together to jam out, whether on the global stage, like the Jackson 5 or Haim, or in a more humble manner, like Taylor Zakhar Perez’s family of 10. Surrounded by the barn cats that roamed the family’s property, Zakhar Perez and his siblings would put on sing-alongs, playing classic tracks from movies or sketch comedy shows. He would play the piano, his sister the violin, and his brother the guitar. With this, Zakhar Perez says, his hunger to perform began: “It was something I couldn’t shake off.” While Zakhar Perez’s parents encouraged his artistic bent, he took his own route to Hollywood. His parents ran an auto body shop, while his mother took acting classes on the side. He didn’t have any connections in th...