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Mario Lopez
(OCTOBER 10) You might remember him as high school jock A.C. Slater on Saved by the Bell, but Mario Lopez has built a 30-plus-year career as an actor, producer, TV and radio host, and entrepreneur. Lopez parlayed his fame into anchor gigs on entertainment news shows, including Extra and Access Hollywood. He also has launched lines of shoes and fitness products, plus a tequila brand with boxer Oscar De La Hoya. That’s a tight relationship: Lopez coproduced The Golden Boy, a documentary about De La Hoya. Fitness is also a priority for Lopez, who has said that he was in poor health as a child. Though football was Slater’s game, Lopez practices Brazilian jujitsu. “Working hard is in everything I do, especially for the family,” the father of three told Fault magazine in June. “I want them to know that there are no shortcuts in life: Work hard, stay focused, do the right thing, and the right things will happen.” —Whitney Matheson
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Credits: Illustration by Sean McCabe. Mario Lopez primary photo: Arturo Holmes/Staff via Getty Images. Clockwise from top: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images; 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection; WENN Rights Ltd/Alamy; NBC/Everett Collection; ABC/Everett Collection; Bruce Glikas/Getty Images. Campbell: MediaPunch Inc./Alamy; MacFarlane: Steve Granitz/Getty Images; Shue: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images; O’Neal: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Pure Flix Entertainment; Wen: Zuma Press Inc./Alamy; Shalhoub: Abaca Press/Alamy; Chase: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images; Deneuve: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images; King: Robert Prange/Getty Images