Freddie Prinze Jr.

At 48 years old, Freddie Prinze Jr. has this physical status:

Frederick James Prinze Jr. (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor.

He has appeared in films including I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), I'm Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), She's All That (1999), Scooby-Doo (2002), and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).

Prinze has appeared on television shows such as Friends (1999), Boston Legal (2004), Freddie (2005–06), and 24 (2010), and Kanan Jarrus appeared in the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels.

Early life

Frederick James Prinze Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 8, 1976. Prinze Jr. and his father, actor and stand-up comedian Freddie Prinze, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 29, 1977, after which Prinze Jr. and his mother moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was raised Catholic, accepts his Latino ancestry (as his paternal grandmother was Puerto Rican, from Boquerón) and is fluent in Spanish. His mother is of Italian descent. Since his dying grandfather told him he had to "fix" what his father had "f'd up," he was inspired to enter show business by the age of 15. Neil Patrick Harris, a boy from high school, was excited about acting, and he decided to do it. Prinze came from high school to Los Angeles to audition for television roles.

Personal life

Sarah Michelle Gellar, a Prinze married actress, was born in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, on September 1, 2002. The couple met several years ago when filming I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) began in 2000 and became engaged in April 2001. They appeared in Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Happily N'Ever After (2006), and Star Wars Rebels (2014-2020). Gellar also appeared on Prinze's film She's All That. They have two children together, a daughter born September 2009 and a son born September 2012.

Prinze is an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and he has earned the rank of purple belt in the sport, having been promoted under Jean Jacques Machado.

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Career

Prinze appeared on ABC television series Family Matters as a guest star in 1995. He appeared on a few shows and made-for-TV films before he made his motion picture debut in To Gillian on her 37th birthday in 1996. Prinze appeared in youth-oriented films in subsequent years. I know what you did last summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) made him known to teenage audiences. In the United States, his first leading role, She's All That (1999), earned $63 million.

Subsequently, he had leading roles in Wing Commander (1999), Down to You (2000), Boys and Girls (2000), Head Over Heels (2001), most of which were despised by critics and had modest box office success.

Fred Jones appeared in the 2002 live-action film version of the famous cartoon Scooby-Doo, and he reprised his role in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini. Sandy, a nanny named Sandy, appeared on the programme's 200th episode as a sensitive male nanny. In the ABC legal drama-comedy Boston Legal, he also appeared as Donny Crane, a character that is likely to be Denny Crane's son. Prinze appeared in Freddie, his own television sitcom. According to reports, the sitcom will include some true events from his life and was cancelled after one season in May 2006. George Lopez appeared on George Lopez for a crossover with Freddie. Prinze received a special award from TV Land in 2004 on behalf of his late father. Della Reese, his father's former co-star, thanked him for his continued guidance and assistance. In 2006, he lent his voice to the character Pi in the computer-animated film Shark Bait. In 2007, Rick lent his voice to the role of Rick in Happily N'Ever After, as well as his partner Gellar Shawn, Andy Dick, George Carlin, and Sigourney Weaver. In 2008, he auditioned for Jigsaw in Punisher: War Zone, but he was not offered the opportunity at Lionsgate Studios. He later became the voice of the titular character in the animated film Delgo. Dennis, a grade school friend of Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster, appeared on Psych as Dennis in 2010. Prinze was initially cast as Nancy Drew's father, Carson Drew, in The CW mystery pilot Nancy Drew, but he was later replaced by Scott Wolf. In the Kim Possible film Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, Tim and Jim Possible also performed the future version of Tim and Jim Possible.

Prinze had signed on to appear as Bradley, aka Ultimatum, in ABC's No Heroics, a U.S. version of the British show of the same name. Prinze was not selected for the eighth season of the television show 24 (CTU), where he appeared as a series regular, but Cole Ortiz, a new CTU agent, was cast.

Prinze appeared on Peacock in 2021, portraying the title character's ex-husband.

In a Vatta's War: Trading in Danger graphic audio book, he appeared as a pilot. In BioWare video games, Prinze played different characters: Lieutenant James Vega in Mass Effect 3 and Inquisition, Inquisition. He reprised his role as James Vega in the animated film Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, which FUNimation dubbed. Kanan Jarrus, one of the few surviving Jedi Knights on the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels, from 2014 to 2018. In May 2021, he reprised his role in the opening scene of the Disney+ series The Bad Batch's pilot episode.

Prinze is a WWE fan and was seen on television at the WrestleMania XXIV pay-per-view and its preceding Hall of Fame celebration in March 2008. He also appeared on a live stream of wrestler John Morrison and The Miz, and he'd written an official profile on WWE's "Universe" blog community, where he'd often write his thoughts about the WWE's latest happenings in the world. His relationship with the company was bolstered when he was hired as a member of the creative team to participate in weekly television and pay-per-view programming for the SmackDown brand. Prinze and WWE had broken up on February 22, 2009.

Prinze appeared on Raw on August 17 as a special guest host, where he was stabbed by then WWE Champion Randy Orton after refusing to bail Orton out of his tag team match with John Cena, who was due to face him in the upcoming SummerSlam. Prinze returned to work and earned his payback after Orton's match against Big Show and Chris Jericho by organizing a lumberjack competition involving Mark Henry, Primo, Evan Bourne, MVP, and Jamie Noble.

Prinze debuted on October 1, 2010 as a producer and director, and she later returned to WWE as a writer and director. Prinze appeared on television on November 1, 2010 as Vince McMahon's doctor, a dream sequence scene that coincided with Linda McMahon's attempt to secure a seat in the Senate for the state of Connecticut.

Prinze launched Wrestling With Freddie in November 2021.

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