Zach Tinker
Zach Tinker, born Zachary Atticus Tinker on May 8, 1994, in New York City, is an American actor. He is best known for playing Fenmore Baldwin on The Young and the Restless and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2019 for that role. He has also appeared in Law & Order True Crime, American Horror Story, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Why Women Kill. In 2021, he played Sonny Kiriakis in Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem, a Peacock miniseries, and he joined the main Days of Our Lives cast in 2022.
Tinker moved to Los Angeles when he was three years old. He is the son of TV producer and writer John Tinker and Lori Mozilo, a Disney executive with Italian ancestry; his parents are divorced. He is the grandson of TV executive Grant Tinker and the nephew of producer/director Mark Tinker.
He began acting in elementary school and once hoped to play in the NBA before he stopped growing as a teenager. He started college at Gonzaga University, planning to be a writer, but after performing in a theater production of Tape, he decided to pursue acting. He transferred to Loyola Marymount University in his junior year to study theater.
Tinker’s first major TV role came in 2015 on Murder in the First. He appeared on My Crazy Ex and Dear Diary, I Died (2016); Law & Order True Crime (2017); NCIS and Turnt (2018). In November 2018, he joined The Young and the Restless as Fenmore Baldwin, replacing Max Ehrich; the character was written out in early 2019. He also appeared on You're the Worst.
In 2019, he played Sam in American Horror Story: 1984 and briefly reprised Fen in December 2019; Fen was written out again in 2020. That year, he appeared in Station 19, 13 Reasons Why, and L.A.’s Finest. In August 2021, he joined the Days of Our Lives spinoff Beyond Salem as Sonny Kiriakis; the series streamed on Peacock. He also appeared in Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas. On February 11, 2022, it was announced he would play Sonny on the main Days of Our Lives; he debuted March 10, 2022 as a series regular, with his last appearance on the show in December 2022. In January 2023, he briefly reprised Fenmore Baldwin on The Young and the Restless. On January 27, 2023, he joined the cast of Fire Country.
In 2019, he briefly dated Cait Fairbanks, a co-star from The Young and the Restless; they publicly confirmed dating in early 2020 and broke up in 2021.
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