Taylor Zakhar Perez

Taylor Zakhar Perez (born December 24, 1991) is an American actor. He is known for featuring in the romantic comedy films The Kissing Booth 2 (2020), The Kissing Booth 3 (2021), and Red, White & Royal Blue (2023), and the sex comedy series Minx (2022). Early life Perez was born in Chicago on December 24, 1991, and grew up in Chesterton, Indiana. He attended Chesterton High School, where he was a swimmer. Perez has Mexican, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean ancestry. Additionally, he is partially Croatian through his mother and partially Hungarian through his father. His mother is an aesthetician and he is the sixth of eight children. Perez used to change tires at the family auto body shop on weekends. He earned a swimming scholarship to Fordham University, but turned it down to attend UCLA, where he majored in Spanish Culture and Community and minored in Film and Television. Perez started by performing musicals in opera houses at an early age. He then began modeling.