Freddie James Prinze, Jr. is an American actor.
He rose to fame during the late 1990s and early 2000s, after starring in several Hollywood
films aimed at teenage audiences, I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still
Know What You Did Last Summer, as well as She's All That, Summer Catch, Scooby-Doo,
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and Delgo.
Prinze has also had acting roles in television shows, including Friends, Freddie and 24.
He is married to actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, and currently works for WWE as a producer
and director.
Early life Freddie James Prinze, Jr. was born in Los
Angeles, California.
He is the only child of actor/comedian, Freddie James Prinze Sr. and real estate agent, Kathy
Elaine Barber.
Freddie Sr. committed suicide in 1977, a year after Freddie Jr. was born.
Prinze grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
He was raised Roman Catholic, and embraces his Puerto Rican heritage, and he speaks Spanish.
After graduating from high school in 1994, Prinze moved to Los Angeles to audition for
television roles.
Career Television and film
Prinze was cast in a guest role on the ABC TV series Family Matters in 1995.
He then appeared on a few 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 success with appearances in youth-oriented movies.
I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, made
him well-known among teenage audiences.
In his first leading role, the romantic comedy She's All That, he was very successful at
the box office.
The film grossed $63 million in the United States.
Subsequently, he had leading roles in Wing Commander, Down to You, Boys and Girls, Head
over Heels and Summer Catch, most of which were generally disliked by critics and had
moderate box office success.
In 2002 he played Fred Jones in the live action film version of the popular cartoon, Scooby-Doo,
and reprised the role in the 2004 sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, both alongside
his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar.
He guest starred on the popular NBC show, Friends, as a sensitive male nanny named Sandy
on the series 200th episode.
He also appeared as Donny Crane, a character believed to be Denny Crane's son in the ABC
legal drama-comedy Boston Legal.
Prinze starred in his own television sitcom, titled Freddie.
The sitcom is said to depict some actual events from his life, and lasted one season before
being canceled in May 2006.
He guest starred on George Lopez for a crossover with Freddie.
In 2004, Prinze accepted a special award from TV Land on behalf of his late father.
He thanked his father's former co-star, Della Reese, for her continued advice and support.
In 2006, he lent his voice to the character of Pi in the computer-animated film Shark
Bait.
Also, in 2007, he lent his voice to the character of Rick in Happily N'Ever After along with
his wife Gellar, Wallace Shawn, Andy Dick, George Carlin, and Sigourney Weaver.
In 2008, he originally auditioned for Jigsaw in Punisher: War Zone, but was not given the
part at the decision of Lionsgate Studios.
In 2010, Prinze guest starred on Psych as Dennis, a grade school friend of Shawn Spencer
and Burton Guster.
He also voiced Tim and Jim Possible in the Kim Possible movie Kim Possible: A Sitch in
Time.
World Wrestling Entertainment Prinze is a fan of World Wrestling Entertainment
and was shown on television in attendance at the March 2008 WrestleMania XXIV pay-per-view
and its preceding Hall of Fame ceremony.
He also made a cameo on an episode of The Dirt Sheet, an online program hosted by wrestlers
John Morrison and The Miz, and had created an official profile on WWE's "Universe" blog
community where he would regularly write his thoughts on the current going-ons in the world
of the WWE.
His relationship with the company was furthered when he was hired as a member of the creative
staff to contribute to weekly television and pay-per-view programming for the SmackDown
brand.
It was reported on February 22, 2009 that Prinze and WWE had parted ways.
Post-WWE In March 2009, it was announced that Prinze
had signed on to star as Bradley, aka Ultimatum in the ABC show No Heroics, a US remake of
the British show of the same name.
The show was not picked up but Prinze was instead cast as a series regular for the eighth
season of the television show 24, where he played, Cole Ortiz, a new CTU operative.
On August 17, Prinze appeared on WWE Raw as a Special Guest Host, and in the show, he
was assaulted by then WWE Champion Randy Orton after refusing to bail Orton out of his tag
team match with John Cena, who was due to challenge him in the upcoming SummerSlam.
Prinze later returned to the program and got his payback during Orton's match with Cena
against Big Show and Chris Jericho, by setting up a lumberjack match involving Mark Henry,
Primo, Evan Bourne, Kofi Kingston, MVP and Jamie Noble, who all detested Orton and proceeded
to give him a hard time during the match.
Return to World Wrestling Entertainment Prinze returned to World Wrestling Entertainment
on October 1, 2010, in a role as producer and director.
On the November 1, 2010 episode of Monday Night RAW, Prinze made an on-screen appearance
as Vince McMahon's doctor, a dream sequence scene that coincided with Linda McMahon's
attempt to win a seat in the Senate for the state of Connecticut.
Voice acting He voiced a pilot in a Vatta's War: Trading
in Danger graphic audio book.
Prinze voiced the character Lieutenant James Vega in Mass Effect 3.
He returned to the role of James Vega again for the animated feature film Mass Effect:
Paragon Lost.
In 2014, it was announced he had joined the cast of Star Wars Rebels as the voice of Kanan,
one of the last surviving Jedi knights.
In June 2014, BioWare announced that Prinze will voice Iron Bull, a Qunari mercenary,
in the upcoming role-playing game Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Personal life Prinze married actress Sarah Michelle Gellar
on September 1, 2002, in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, in western Mexico.
The couple met several years before, while filming I Know What You Did Last Summer, started
dating in 2000 and were engaged in April 2001.
Gellar and Prinze have two children together: daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze, and son Rocky
James Prinze.
The family lives in Los Angeles.
Filmography Awards and nominations
See also
List of Puerto Ricans References
External links Freddie Prinze, Jr. at the Internet Movie
Database Jam!
Movies interview Hispanic Magazine interview