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Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Freddie James Prinze (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor.
Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Filmography
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
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Early life
Prinze was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Kathy Elaine Cochran (née Barber), a real estate agent, and Freddie Prinze, an actor and comedian[1] who killed himself in 1977 after Kathy had left him and had filed a restraining order against him (Prinze Jr. was 10 months old at the time). Prinze's father was of Puerto Rican and German descent and his mother is of Italian ancestry.[2][3][4][5] Prinze was raised Roman Catholic[6] and embraces his Puerto Rican heritage.[7][2] Prinze grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Puerto Rico.[2] He learned about Spanish and Puerto Rican culture from his Puerto Rican paternal grandmother.[3] He speaks Spanish and Italian.[2] Prinze showed an interest in acting from an early age and attended La Cueva High School in Albuquerque. After graduating in 1994, Prinze moved to Los Angeles to audition for television roles.[8]
Career
Prinze was cast in a guest role on the
ABC TV series
Family Matters in
1995. He then appeared on a few special programs and made-for-TV movies, before making his
motion picture debut in
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday in
1996. In subsequent years, Prinze experienced much 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
[9] in the
United States.
Subsequently, he 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[10] and had moderate box office performances.[11] 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 starred in both Scooby-Doo movies alongside his wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar. He guest starred on the popular NBC show, Friends, as a sensitive male nanny named Sandy. He also appeared as Donny Crane, a character believed to be Denny Crane's son in the ABC legal dramedy Boston Legal. Prinze starred in his own television sitcom, titled Freddie. The sitcom is said to depict some actual events from his life. The show lasted one season (fall 2005 - spring 2006) before being canceled in May 2006.
Personal life
In the mid-1990s, Prinze dated actress Kimberly McCullough for more than three years.[12] He married actress Sarah Michelle Gellar on September 1, 2002, in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, located at the southwest of México. The couple met several years beforehand, while filming I Know What You Did Last Summer,[13] but started dating in 2000 and were engaged in April 2001. In 2007, for their fifth year of marriage, Sarah legally changed her name to Sarah Michelle Prinze.
Prinze is trained in several forms of
martial arts, and enjoys
tap dancing and collecting
comic books. He is an avid
soccer fan and supports the team
Arsenal F.C., and is a fan of
East Asian cinema. Prinze received a
katana from Gellar in 2004 that she bought in
Japan while filming
The Grudge. Prinze is also a huge fan of
WWE wrestling and was shown on television in attendance for
Wrestlemania 24 and a ceremony for the
WWE Hall of Fame.
Filmography
See also
References
