Real name: Freddie James Prinze, Jr.
Born: March 8, 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
Discovered: 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 success with appearances 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 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 and had moderate box office success. In 2000, he was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World".
Romance: Prinze married actress Sarah Michelle Gellar on September 1, 2002, in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, in the southwest of 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. In 2007, for their fifth year of marriage, Gellar legally changed her name to Sarah Michelle Prinze.
Filmography:
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
She's All That (1999)
Wing Commander (1999)
Down to You Alfred (2000)
Boys and Girls (2000)
Head Over Heels (2001)
Summer Catch (2001)
Friends (2002)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Freddie (2005)
Robot Chicken (2005)
Shooting Gallery (2006)
Shark Bait (2006)
George Lopez (2006)
Boston Legal (2006)
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Happily N'Ever After (2007)
New York City Serenade (2007)
Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)
24 (2010)
Trivia:
Enjoys martial arts.
Bought a $3 million, 5-bedroom, 4000 square foot house in the San Fernando Valley. [September 2000]
On People's (USA) 'Best-Dressed' list. [September 2000]
His godfather is martial arts legend Robert Wall.
Freddie is descendant from Puerto Rican and Hungarian from his father's side and Italian from his mother's side.
Quotes:
"If you come out here without a solid foundation, you're done. You're dead before you've lived." - Freddie James Prinze, Jr.
"After years of feeling like an outsider, I finally have a woman I love, and friends that I can trust. I am the luckiest man in the world to have met Sarah." - Freddie James Prinze, Jr.
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