Freddie Prinze, Jr.

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Freddie Prinze, Jr
Freddie Prinze, Jr
Born	8 March 1976 Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s)	Sarah Michelle Gellar

Freddie James Prinze, Jr. (born March 8, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his leading roles in teen-oriented films.

1 Biography
2 Selected filmography
3 See also
4 External links
- 4.1 Interviews
- 4.2 Websites

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Prinze was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Katherine Elaine Cochran (a real-estate agent) and Freddie Prinze, an American actor and comedian who died in 1977, after Elaine left him and filed a restraining order against him. Prinze was just 10 months old at the time. His father's death was originally termed a suicide but later ruled an accident, as he was under the influence of Quaaludes. Prinze's paternal grandfather was German ^[1] and his paternal grandmother was Puerto Rican; he was raised a Roman Catholic ^[2] and embraces his Puerto Rican heritage ^[3].

Prinze grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Puerto Rico. He learned about Spanish and Puerto Rican culture from his paternal grandmother's Puerto Rican family. He showed an interest in acting from an early age and attended La Cueva High School in Albuquerque, which he's described in interviews as a painful experience. Having an interest in drama, he became a member of the Albuquerque Children's Theatre and the Duo Drama Company. After graduating high school in 1994, he moved to Los Angeles and began auditioning for television roles.

[edit] Career

Prinze was cast in a guest role on the ABC TV series Family Matters in 1995. He then appeared on a few special programmes and made-for-TV movies, before making his motion picture debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday in 1996.

In the following years, Prinze had a great deal of success appearing in youth-oriented movies. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), made him well-known among teenage audiences and his first leading role, the romantic comedy She's All That (1999), was very successful at the box office, grossing $63 million [1] in the United States.

Subsequently, Prinze had leading roles in Wing Commander (1999), Down to You (2000), Boys and Girls (2000), Head Over Heels (2001) and Summer Catch (2001), most of which were generally disliked by critics [2] and had moderate box office performances [3]. In 2000, he was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World".

In 2002, he played "Fred Jones" in the live film version of the popular cartoon, Scooby-Doo, and repeated the role in the 2004 sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. He guest starred on the popular NBC show, Friends, as a sensitive male nanny named Sandy. He also appeared as "Donny Crane," Denny Crane's son, on Boston Legal.

Prinze starred in his own television sitcom, titled Freddie. The sitcom is said to represent some actual events from his life. The show lasted one season (fall 2005 - spring 2006) before being canceled in May 2006.

[edit] Personal life

Prinze married actress Sarah Michelle Gellar on September 1, 2002 in Jalisco, Mexico, south of Puerto Vallarta. The couple met several years beforehand, while filming I Know What You Did Last Summer [4] but started dating in 2000 and were engaged in April 2001.

Prinze is trained in several forms of martial arts and considers tap dancing and collecting comic books his hobbies. He is also an avid soccer fan and supports the team Arsenal F.C..

An avid fan of East Asian cinema, Prinze received a Katana from Gellar in 2004 that she bought in Japan while filming The Grudge.

[edit] Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2006	Delgo	Delgo	Voice only
2007	Happily N'Ever After	Rick	Voice only
2006	Brooklyn Rules	TBA
2006	The Shooting Gallery	Jericho
2004	Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed	Fred Jones
2002	Scooby-Doo	Fred Jones
2001	Summer Catch	Ryan Dunne
2001	Head Over Heels	Jim Winston
2000	Boys and Girls	Ryan Walker
2000	Down to You	Alfred 'Al' Connelly
1999	Wing Commander	1st Lt. Christopher Blair
1999	She's All That	Zach Siler
1998	I Still Know What You Did Last Summer	Ray Bronson
1997	I Know What You Did Last Summer	Ray Bronson