FREDDIE PRINZE, JR.
Name: Freddie James Prinze
Born: 8 March 1976 Los Angeles, California, USA
Freddie James Prinze (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor who is known for
his known for appearances in the Scooby-Doo movies.
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 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 Jewish Hungarian descent and his mother is of Italian
ancestry. Prinze was raised Roman Catholic and embraces his
Puerto Rican heritage. Prinze grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and
Puerto Rico. He learned about Spanish and Puerto Rican culture from his
Puerto Rican paternal grandmother. 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.
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 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
performances. 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.
Name: Freddie James Prinze
Born: 8 March 1976 Los Angeles, California, USA
Freddie James Prinze (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor who is known for
his known for appearances in the Scooby-Doo movies.
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 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 Jewish Hungarian descent and his mother is of Italian
ancestry. Prinze was raised Roman Catholic and embraces his
Puerto Rican heritage. Prinze grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and
Puerto Rico. He learned about Spanish and Puerto Rican culture from his
Puerto Rican paternal grandmother. 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.
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 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
performances. 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.