Sarah Chalke is a Canadian actress known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy series Scrubs, the second Rebecca "Becky" Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. She has also had a recurring role in the thir...
July 19, 1692, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States
Place Of Birth
Ottawa, Canada
Height
5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Profession
Actor
Education
Handsworth Secondary School
Nationality
Canada
Spouse
Jamie Afifi
Children
Charlie Rhodes Afifi
Parents
Angie Chalke, Douglas Chalke
Siblings
Piper Chalke, Natasha Chalke
Nicknames
Sarah Cassandra Chalke , Sarah Chalk , Sarah Louise Christine Chalke , Chalky
Awards
TV Land Innovator Award
Nominations
Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress: Comedy, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, TV Land for The Most Irreplaceable Replacement Award
Movies
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, Chaos Theory
TV Shows
Scrubs, Roseanne, Rick and Morty, How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), Mad Love, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, Dead Man's Gun, Neon Rider, Scrubs: Interns, The Odyssey
Star Sign
Virgo
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Quote
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I believe that dessert is a very important part of life, and guilt is a useless emotion, so combining the two would be wrong.
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"Before getting Scrubs (2001), I had always threatened myself I'd have to become a dental hygienist if I quit acting - to me, that would be the hardest job. I would tell myself, 'Just stick it out for a little longer'. It definitely was a turning point" - about how Scrubs (2001) changed her life.
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"When I first opened the script and read the pilot, I was laughing out loud. I just hadn't seen anything on the air like it and I wanted to be a part of it" - on Scrubs (2001).
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Fact
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 39, a daughter named Frances Afifi on April 28, 2016. Child's father is her fiancé, Jamie Afifi.
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Son, Charlie, was diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease, #1 cause of congenital heart disease, in 2009.
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Had competed in several walk-racing competitions.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at 33, a son named Charlie Rhodes Afifi on December 24, 2009. Child's father is her fiancé, Jamie Afifi.
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Best health habit is wearing sunscreen every day. Lost her aunt to melanoma and her grandmother to cancer.
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Describes herself as a klutz.
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Can write with her toes.
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Since her mother is from Germany, Sarah visited a German school in Vancouver twice a week as a child.
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She became a naturalized American citizen in April 2008.
She is vegetarian. Initially her father was not, but he eventually gave in due to family pressure.
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Her father is a lawyer and both her parents are mediators who also run a child adoption agency. Two years ago, she accompanied her parents to China to coordinate the adoption of several orphans there.
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In her leisure time, Chalke prefers cooking with friends (especially Thai and sushi), playing the guitar, hiking, skiing (she's an instructor), snowboarding, kayaking and reading.
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She volunteers at a hospice for terminally ill children and works for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.
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Is fluent in French and German.
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Appeared in local Vancouver theater productions, at age 8.
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Attended the 1999 CCMA award ceremony, and presented an award for the best single of the year. [September 1999]
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(1993-1997) Played older sister of Sara Gilbert on Roseanne (1988), but is younger in real life.
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Said she would like to take a break from acting and attend college. [2001]
$14 Million
