Freddie Prinze Jr.

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

Freddie James Prinze Jr. was born in Los Angeles on March 8, 1976, the only child of Katherine Elaine Prinze (née Cochran) and actor and stand-up comedian Freddie Prinze.

On January 29, 1977, Freddie Prinze died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after which Prinze Jr. relocated with his mother to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Prinze was raised Catholic.

His paternal grandmother was from Puerto Rico and he is fluent in Spanish.

By the age of 15, he was inspired to get into show business after his dying grandfather told him he needed to "fix what your father f-ed up."

Prinze had originally planned to become a civil engineer.

Soon after that he saw Neil Patrick Harris at his high school getting kids excited about getting into acting, and he decided to do that.

After graduating from La Cueva High School 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 in a few programs and made-for-TV movies, before making his motion picture debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday in 1996.

He has starred in films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), She's All That (1999), Summer Catch (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).

In subsequent years, Prinze appeared 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 known to teenage audiences.

His first leading role, the romantic comedy She's All That (1999), grossed $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 disliked by critics and had moderate box office success.

Prinze has also had recurring and starring roles in television shows, including Friends (2002), Boston Legal (2004), Freddie (2005–2006) and 24 (2010).

He voiced Kanan Jarrus in the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels.

He is the only child of comedian and actor Freddie Prinze.

He played Fred Jones in the 2002 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 and along with Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini.

He guest starred on the popular NBC show Friends as a sensitive male nanny named Sandy on the series' 200th episode.

He took the role of Sandy after Tom Hanks could not do it due to scheduling.

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.

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.

The sitcom is said to depict some actual events from his life, and was cancelled after one season in May 2006.

He guest starred on George Lopez for a crossover with Freddie.

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 auditioned for Jigsaw in Punisher: War Zone, but was not given the part at the decision of Lionsgate Studios.

He later was the voice of the titular character in the animated movie Delgo.

In March 2009, it was announced that Prinze had signed on to star as Bradley, aka Ultimatum, in the ABC show No Heroics, a U.S. remake of the British show of the same name.

The show was not picked up, but Prinze was cast as a series regular for the eighth season of the television show 24; he played Cole Ortiz, a new CTU operative.

In 2021, Prinze joined the reboot of Punky Brewster on Peacock, playing the title character's ex-husband.

He voiced a pilot in a Vatta's War: Trading in Danger graphic audio book.

Prinze voiced different characters in BioWare video games: Lieutenant James Vega in Mass Effect 3 and The Iron Bull in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

He returned to the role of James Vega again for the animated feature film Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, dubbed by FUNimation.

In 2010, Prinze guest starred on Psych as Dennis, a grade school friend of Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster.

In March 2019, Prinze was cast as Nancy Drew's father, Carson Drew, in The CW mystery pilot Nancy Drew, but was later replaced by Scott Wolf.

He also voiced the future version of Tim and Jim Possible in the Kim Possible movie Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time.