Lark Voorhies (born 25 March 1974) is an American actress who gained fame playing Lisa Turtle on Saved by the Bell.
Lark Voorhies was born in Nashville, Tennessee and grew up in Pasadena, California.
She was once engaged to actor Martin Lawrence. On 9 March 1996, she married actor/producer Miguel Coleman.
On 30 May 2006, Voorhies filed a lawsuit against the National Enquirer for libel over an article that included claims she had a drug problem.
On Saved by the Bell, Voorhies played Lisa Turtle, a fashion-obsessed teen who is in turn the love obsession of her classmate Screech (played by Dustin Diamond). She also briefly dated Mark-Paul Gosselaar (who played Zack) while filming, and they kissed in one episode, but like many things in Saved by the Bell, this plot was never referred to again. She had contract roles on soap operas such as Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful but quit both when she realized that she would eventually have to do sex scenes, which clashed with her religious beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness. (She was released from her contract on B&B.)
In 1995, Voorhies guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Life Support.� She has continued to act in various roles since then such as In the House, in which she played the girlfriend-turned-wife of Alfonso Ribeiro’s character (Maxwell Stanton). Her latest project is a movie adaptation of the book The Black Man’s Guide to Understanding Black Women.
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