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Mark Salling
Name: Mark Salling
DOB: 17 August 1982
Birth Place: Dallas, Texas, USA
Claim to fame: Hunky Glee actor
Star Facts
- Mark used to work as a guitar teacher
- He was a member of his high school’s wrestling team
- Mark plays the piano, guitar, bass guitar, and drums
- He is a keen birdwatcher and volunteers with the James Hunter Wildlife Rescue charity
Biography
Musically gifted Glee hunk Mark was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and has a strict Christian upbringing. He attended a Christian elementary school and Culver Military Academy for a year and was a member of the high school wrestling team.
Alongside pumping up his wrestling muscles, Mark loved music and began performing in school talent shows, singing in local bars despite being underage. At the Los Angeles Music Academy’s College of Music in Pasadena, California he began studying the guitar and gave guitar lessons to earn his living.
Moving into acting, he landed his first major acting role in the horror flick Children of the Corn IV alongside Naomi Watts 1996, but it went straight to DVD. His big break came in May 2009 when he bagged the role of sexy jock Noah ‘Puck’ Puckerman on the smash hit TV musical phenomenon that is Glee.
In addition to his TV work, Mark sings, writes, and produces his own music, and plays the piano, guitar, bass guitar, and drums. He released his debut solo album under the name Jericho in 2008, and released a jazz/rock album, Pipe Dreams, in 2010 through his own record label. Mark wrote, produced and played all the instruments on all of the album’s tracks.