Sarah Chalke
Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on August 27th, 1976 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 48, Sarah Chalke biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Sarah Chalke (born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian actress and voice artist.
She is known for portraying Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy series Scrubs, the second Becky Conner and Andrea on the ABC sitcoms Roseanne and The Conners, Stella Zinman on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Beth Smith on Adult Swim's adult animated science-fiction series Rick and Morty.
She also had a recurring role on the third season of the ABC/TBS sitcom Cougar Town.
She guest starred as Melanie Hertzal, a 'Special Needs SuperMom' on ABC's Speechless, a recurring character who was at first the nemesis and then business partner of the DiMeo family matriarch.
Early life
Chalke was born on August 27, 1976, in Ottawa, Ontario, and was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the middle of three daughters born to Douglas and Angela Chalke. Her mother is from Rostock, Germany. According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to attend the German school in her hometown twice a week. Her first language is English, but she speaks German fluently and French "fairly well". This was incorporated into her Scrubs character, Elliot Reid, who spoke German and French at the same levels. Chalke graduated from Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver in 1994.
Personal life
In December 2006, Chalke became engaged to Canadian lawyer Jamie Afifi, after three years of dating. In September 2022, Chalke announced that they had called off the engagement and "separated some time ago". They have two children together, a son born in December 2009, and a daughter born in May 2016. Her son was diagnosed at two-years-old with Kawasaki disease.
Chalke's aunt and grandmother died from breast cancer that was undiagnosed while in its early stages. She has since encouraged breast cancer detection and prevention, and starred in the Lifetime movie Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. She is an ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Foundation. Chalke also made an appearance in a short video parodying a National Organization for Marriage's advertisement opposing same-sex marriage, "Gathering Storm". She was the 2009 ambassador for the Susan G. Komen Passionately Pink for the Cure program, for which she also designed a T-shirt.
Career
Chalke's acting career began at the age of eight when she first appeared in musical theater productions. She became a reporter on KidZone, the Canadian children's show. After Lecy Goranson's departure, she took over the role of Rebecca Conner-Healy on Roseanne, and Chalke made a cameo appearance as a different character in the Roseanne episode "Halloween: The Final Chapter" (#178, first broadcasting October 31, 1995). After Goranson departed for a second time, Chalke later returned to the role of Becky. Chalke travelled to Canada briefly after the show ended, where she appeared in the CBC Television drama Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998–1999).
She appeared in 2001 as Dr. Elliot Reid in the NBC comedy series Scrubs, and she will remain a cast member for all nine seasons until the show's run ended in 2010. Ernest Goes to School and Cake has appeared in several feature films, including Ernest Goes. She appeared on Channel 102's The Buying of The Lonely Island, a parody of the hit show The O.C., but was credited as "Pamela Fenton." She appeared in Chaos Theory, which starred fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds, in 2007. Chalke became the spokesperson for a Hanes line of women's underwear, which also included a sequence of commercials directed by Scrubs co-star Zach Braff. Stella Zinman appeared on CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in 2008 and 2009. Mad Love, a romantic comedy that debuted as a midseason replacement and was cancelled after only one season was completed in early 2011.
In the film Cougar Town, former Scrubs executive producer Bill Lawrence had Chalke to play Bobby Cobb's love interest. In the third season, she appeared in multiple episodes. Chalke appeared in ABC comedy series How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), which premiered on April 3, 2013 and was cancelled a month later. Polly, a single and very uptight divorced mother who found herself returning to her parents (Elizabeth Perkins and Brad Garrett) due to the economic recession. Casey Hedges, a frantic mother, appeared in the Grey's Anatomy season 9 episode "Can't Fight This Feeling" earlier this year. On the show Rick and Morty, Chalke also voices Beth.
On April 28, 2017, it was announced that a revival of Roseanne was in the works, and that the bulk of the original cast and some of the producers would return for the revival series. On May 16, 2017, it was announced that eight episodes of the show had been greenlit by ABC and will air mid-season in 2018, with Chalke returning but not in the role of Becky Conner. Following the cancellation of the show, she appeared in The Conners, the Conners' spinoff film.
Chalke co-starred Katherine Heigl in the role of Kate Mularkey on Netflix's Firefly Lane in February 2021.