Sarah Chalke
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Sarah Chalke is a Canadian-American actress known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid
Elliot Reid
Dr. Elliot Reid is a fictional character played by Sarah Chalke in the American comedy-drama Scrubs. She has appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except two Season 8 episodes, "My Last Words" and "My Lawyer's in Love"....

 on the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

/ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 comedy Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

, "Second Becky" Conner Healy on Roseanne
Roseanne (TV series)
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family...

, and Stella Zinman in the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 sitcom How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...

. She most recently starred in the CBS sitcom Mad Love
Mad Love (TV series)
Mad Love is an American television series that aired on CBS from February 14, 2011 to May 16, 2011. The sitcom was planned as a midseason replacement during the 2010–11 television season.On May 15, 2011, Mad Love was officially cancelled by CBS....

, which aired during the spring of 2011.

Early life

Chalke was born in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, and raised in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. She is the middle of the three daughters of Douglas and Angie Chalke. Her mother is originally from Rostock
Rostock
Rostock -Early history:In the 11th century Polabian Slavs founded a settlement at the Warnow river called Roztoc ; the name Rostock is derived from that designation. The Danish king Valdemar I set the town aflame in 1161.Afterwards the place was settled by German traders...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to attend the German school in her hometown twice a week. Her first language is English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, although she speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 fairly well and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 fluently. This was later incorporated to her character Elliot Reid in Scrubs, who also speaks German fluently and French well. Chalke graduated from Handsworth Secondary School
Handsworth Secondary School
Handsworth Secondary School is a public high school in North Vancouver, British Columbia and part of School District 44 North Vancouver. As of September 2009, the school reported 1419 students enrolled in Grades 8–12....

 in North Vancouver in 1994.

Career

Chalke's acting career began at the age of eight when she began appearing in musical theatre
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 productions. At 12, she became a reporter on the Canadian children's show KidZone
KidZone
KidZone is a Canadian TV show for adolescents that aired on Knowledge in British Columbia from 1989 to 2001. The show is also notable for providing a start for several young stars, including Sarah Chalke, Devon Sawa, Jai West and Kea Wong....

. In 1993, she took over the role of Rebecca Conner-Healy on Roseanne
Roseanne (TV series)
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family...

after Lecy Goranson left the series; she made a cameo appearance
Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...

 as a different character in the Roseanne episode "Halloween: The Final Chapter" (#178, originally aired October 31, 1995). She returned briefly to Canada where she starred in the CBC Television
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 drama Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy was a CBC Television television show based upon the adventures of author and rancher Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. in Northern British Columbia. It is based upon the eponymous book and also The Rancher Takes a Wife....

(1998–1999).

In 2001, she was cast as Dr. Elliot Reid
Elliot Reid
Dr. Elliot Reid is a fictional character played by Sarah Chalke in the American comedy-drama Scrubs. She has appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except two Season 8 episodes, "My Last Words" and "My Lawyer's in Love"....

 in the NBC comedy series Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

. She has appeared in several feature films, including Ernest Goes to School
Ernest Goes to School
Ernest Goes to School is a 1994 comedy film written and directed by Coke Sams and starring Jim Varney. It is the seventh film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell, and the first to be released direct-to-video. It never had a DVD release in Region 1. This motion picture is also the only film...

and Cake
Cake (film)
-Plot:The picture follows the life of Pippa McGee as she takes that giant step between 29 and 30 that involves growing up, becoming responsible and discovering true love....

. She appeared in Channel 101
Channel 101
Channel 101 is a non-profit short film festival in Los Angeles, which also has a sister festival in NYC, Channel 101: NY. Channel 101 is a creation of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab in which participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot under five minutes in length...

's The 'Bu with The Lonely Island
The Lonely Island
The Lonely Island is an American comedy troupe composed of Akiva "Kiv" Schaffer, Jorma "Jorm" Taccone, and David Andrew "Andy" Samberg, best known for their comedic music. Originally from Berkeley, California, the group is currently based in New York City. The group broke out due to their...

, a parody of the hit show The O.C.
The O.C.
The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...

, but was credited as "Pamela Fenton". In 2007, she appeared as a supporting character in Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory (film)
Chaos Theory is a 2007 comedy-drama film starring Ryan Reynolds, Stuart Townsend, Emily Mortimer, and Sarah Chalke. The film was written by Daniel Taplitz and Kathy Gori and was shot in Vancouver, Canada.- Plot :...

, which starred fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canadian film and television actor, best known for his roles in such films as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Waiting..., The Amityville Horror, Just Friends, Definitely, Maybe, The Proposal, Buried, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Green Lantern.One of his best known...

. In 2008, Chalke became the spokesperson for a line of women's underwear by Hanes
Hanes
Hanes and Hanes Her Way are brands of apparel currently owned by the HanesBrands, Inc Corporation...

 that included a series of commercials directed by her Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

co-star Zach Braff
Zach Braff
Zachary Israel "Zach" Braff is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, and director. Braff first became known in 2001 for his role as Dr. John Dorian on the television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards.In 2004, Braff made his...

. In 2008 and 2009 she made appearances in the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 sitcom How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...

as Stella Zinman. In the spring of 2011, she starred in the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 television series Mad Love
Mad Love (TV series)
Mad Love is an American television series that aired on CBS from February 14, 2011 to May 16, 2011. The sitcom was planned as a midseason replacement during the 2010–11 television season.On May 15, 2011, Mad Love was officially cancelled by CBS....

, a romantic comedy which debuted as a midseason replacement and was cancelled after only one season was produced.
Sarah Chalke has been signed by former Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

, and current Cougar Town
Cougar Town
Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The series focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make...

 executive producer, Bill Lawrence
Bill Lawrence (producer)
William Van Duzer Lawrence IV is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known as the creator of Scrubs and co-creator of Cougar Town. Lawrence is married to the actress Christa Miller whom he cast in both television series; they have three children together...

 to play a love interest in the series. She is set to appear in multiple episodes.

Activism

Chalke lost her aunt and grandmother to breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

 that was undiagnosed while in its early stages. Chalke has since encouraged breast cancer detection and prevention, and starred in the Lifetime
Lifetime Movie Network
Lifetime Movie Network is a cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A&E Television Networks, LLC. A&E Television Networks is a joint venture of the Disney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBCUniversal. LMN offers women-oriented movies...

 movie Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy is a 2006 television film that aired on Lifetime Television and starred Sarah Chalke. It is based on the memoir of the same name, written by Geralyn Lucas...

. She is an ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...

 Children's Foundation. Chalke also made an appearance in a short video parodying the National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage
The National Organization for Marriage is a nonprofit political association established in 2007 to work against legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States, specifically to pass California Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California...

's "Gathering Storm" advertisement opposing same-sex marriage. She is also the 2009 ambassador for the Susan G. Komen Passionately Pink for the Cure(R) program, for whom she also designed a T-shirt.

Personal life

She is engaged to lawyer Jamie Afifi, with whom she has a son Charlie Rhodes Afifi, born December 24, 2009.

Her father is a lawyer in private practice in Vancouver. Her parents operate an adoption agency that specializes in placing foreign orphans (primarily Chinese
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....

) with Canadian families. Her older sister Natasha is also a lawyer, and she has a younger sister named Piper.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1994 Ernest Goes to School
Ernest Goes to School
Ernest Goes to School is a 1994 comedy film written and directed by Coke Sams and starring Jim Varney. It is the seventh film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell, and the first to be released direct-to-video. It never had a DVD release in Region 1. This motion picture is also the only film...

Maisy
1999 All Shook Up Katy Dudston
2000 Spin Cycle Tess
2000 Cinderella: Single Again Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...

2001 Kill Me Later
Kill Me Later
Kill Me Later is a 2001 film directed by Dana Lustig and starring Selma Blair and Max Beesley; it also features Brendan Fehr and Keegan Connor Tracy.-Synopsis :Blair plays Shawn, a suicidal loan officer at a bank....

Linda
2001 XCU: Extreme Close Up Jane Bennett
2005 Alchemy
Alchemy (film)
Alchemy is a television movie starring Tom Cavanagh and Sarah Chalke. It premiered on ABC Family in 2005. It was written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer.-Plot:...

Samantha Rose
2005 Cake
Cake (film)
-Plot:The picture follows the life of Pippa McGee as she takes that giant step between 29 and 30 that involves growing up, becoming responsible and discovering true love....

Jane
2006 Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy is a 2006 television film that aired on Lifetime Television and starred Sarah Chalke. It is based on the memoir of the same name, written by Geralyn Lucas...

Geralyn Lucas
2007 Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory (film)
Chaos Theory is a 2007 comedy-drama film starring Ryan Reynolds, Stuart Townsend, Emily Mortimer, and Sarah Chalke. The film was written by Daniel Taplitz and Kathy Gori and was shot in Vancouver, Canada.- Plot :...

Paula Crowe
2007 Mama's Boy
Mama's Boy (film)
Mama's Boy is a 2007 comedy starring Diane Keaton and Jon Heder, and features music by Mark Mothersbaugh. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. for a limited release to certain parts of the United States. Mama's Boy was directed by Tim Hamilton....

Maya
2008 Prop 8: The Musical Scary Catholic School Girls From Hell Short film

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1992 City Boy Angelica TV film
1993 Neon Rider
Neon Rider
Neon Rider is a Canadian drama television series which first aired between 1990 and 1995. Created by Winston Rekert and Danny Virtue, the show was about the titular character, a man named Michael Terry who quits his job as a therapist to become a mentor for troubled kids which he brings to his...

Annie 1 episode
1993 The Odyssey
The Odyssey (TV series)
The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-95 on CBC Television...

Estate Agent 1 episode
1993 Relentless: Mind of a Killer Carrie TV film
1993 Woman on the Ledge Elizabeth TV film
1993–1997 Roseanne
Roseanne (TV series)
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family...

Becky Conner-Healy Main role; 70 episodes
1994 Beyond Obsession Laura Sawyer TV film
1996 Robin of Locksley Marion Fitzwater TV film
1996 Dead Ahead Heather Loch TV film
1996 Stand Against Fear
Stand Against Fear
Stand Against Fear is a 1996 made for television movie. Sarah Chalke stars as a cheerleader who takes action when she faces sexual intimidation from football players at her school.-Plot:...

Krista Wilson TV film
1997 Daughters
Daughters (1997 TV film)
Daughters, also known as Our Mother's Murder is a 1997 made-for-tv drama film directed by Bill L. Norton, and stars Holly Marie Combs and Sarah Chalke who play Alex and Annie, the two eldest daughters of the main character Anne....

Annie Morrell TV film
1997 A Child's Wish
A Child's Wish
A Child's Wish is a fact based made for television movie based on actual events. John Ritter stars as a father of an ill 16 year old daughter .-Plot:...

Melinda TV film
1997 Dying to Belong
Dying to Belong
Dying to Belong is a 1997 television film directed by William A. Graham.- Plot :Lisa Connors, an Anders University freshman, has big hopes of a job at the university newspaper. Her ambitious mother, Gwen, suggests Lisa should join a sorority, Pi Gamma Beta , as she herself had great fun...

Drea Davenport TV film
1997 Dead Man's Gun
Dead Man's Gun
Dead Man's Gun was a western anthology series which ran on Showtime from 1997 to 1999. The series followed the travels of a gun as it passed to a new character in each episode. The gun would change the life of whomever possessed it....

Murial Jakes 1 episode
1998 I've Been Waiting for You
I've Been Waiting for You (film)
I've Been Waiting for You is a 1998 made-for-tv horror/slasher film directed by Christopher Leitch. The film is based on the 1997 novel Gallows Hill written by Lois Duncan.- Plot :...

Sarah Zoltanne TV film
1999 Y2K Myra Soljev TV film
1999 First Wave Chloe Wells 1 episode
1999–2000 Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy was a CBC Television television show based upon the adventures of author and rancher Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. in Northern British Columbia. It is based upon the eponymous book and also The Rancher Takes a Wife....

Gloria Hobson Main role; 23 episodes
2001–2010 Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

Dr. Elliot Reid
Elliot Reid
Dr. Elliot Reid is a fictional character played by Sarah Chalke in the American comedy-drama Scrubs. She has appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except two Season 8 episodes, "My Last Words" and "My Lawyer's in Love"....

Main role; 173 episodes
2002 It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie is a 2002 television film that aired on NBC on November 29, 2002. The film is directed by Kirk Thatcher, written by Tom Martin and Jim Lewis and stars the Muppets and was filmed at Lionsgate Studios. The film revolves a plot similar to "It's A Wonderful...

Dr. Elliot Reid TV film
2002–2003 Clone High
Clone High
Clone High is a Canadian-American animated television series that aired for one season on MTV and Teletoon....

Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....

4 episodes
2006 Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy is a 2006 television film that aired on Lifetime Television and starred Sarah Chalke. It is based on the memoir of the same name, written by Geralyn Lucas...

Geralyn Lucas
Geralyn Lucas
-Career:Lucas attended Columbia University School of Journalism, where she graduated with honors. After graduation, she went to work at ABC and was an editorial producer at the ABC News newsmagazine 20/20 for seven years...

TV film
2007 Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

Dr. Elliot Reid
2008–2009 How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...

Stella Zinman 9 episodes
2009 Maneater
Maneater (2009 miniseries)
Maneater is a 2009 television miniseries starring Sarah Chalke. It was directed by Timothy Busfield and written by Suzanne Martin and Gigi Levangie...

Clarissa Alpert Mini-series
2009 Prep and Landing
Prep and Landing
Disney Prep & Landing is a computer animated television special, based on an idea by Chris Williams at Walt Disney Animation Studios and developed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton into a half-hour Christmas special. It first aired December 8, 2009 on ABC.The special was released on-line...

Magee Voice; TV special on ABC
2010 Freshman Jane Pilot on ABC
2010 Team Spitz Guidance Counsellor Pilot on CBS
2011 Prep and Landing: Naughty vs. Nice Magee Voice; TV Special on ABC
2011 Mad Love
Mad Love (TV series)
Mad Love is an American television series that aired on CBS from February 14, 2011 to May 16, 2011. The sitcom was planned as a midseason replacement during the 2010–11 television season.On May 15, 2011, Mad Love was officially cancelled by CBS....

Kate Swanson Main role; 13 episodes
2011 Cougar Town Angie TBD

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