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Sarah Chalke
Chalke in December 2008
Born	August 27, 1976 (1976-08-27) (age 33) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Other name(s)	Sarah Louise Christine Chalke Sarah Cassandra Chalke
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1984–present

Sarah Chalke (born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian-American actress, best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy Scrubs, "Second Becky" Conner Healy on Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.¹

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Activism 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 5.1 Television 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the middle of the three daughters of Douglas and Angie Chalke. Her mother is originally 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, although she speaks French fairly well and German fluently. This was later incorporated to her character Elliot Reid in Scrubs, who also speaks German fluently. Chalke graduated from Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver in 1994.

Career

Chalke's acting career began at the age of eight when she began appearing in musical theatre productions. At 12, she became a reporter on the Canadian children's show KidZone. In 1993, she took over the role of Rebecca Conner-Healy on Roseanne after Lecy Goranson left the series; she made a cameo appearance 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 drama Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998–1999).

In 2001, she was cast as Dr. Elliot Reid in the NBC comedy series Scrubs. She has appeared in several feature films, including Ernest Goes to School and Cake. She appeared in Channel 101's The 'Bu with The Lonely Island, a parody of the hit show The O.C., but was credited as "Pamela Fenton". In 2007, she appeared as a supporting character in Chaos Theory, which starred Ryan Reynolds. In 2008, Chalke became the spokesperson for a line of women's underwear by Hanes that included a series of commercials directed by her Scrubs co-star Zach Braff.²³ In 2008 and 2009 she made appearances in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Stella Zinman.

Activism

Chalke lost her aunt and grandmother to breast cancer that was undiagnosed while in its early stages. Chalke has since encouraged breast cancer detection and prevention, and starred in the Lifetime movie Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy.⁴ She is an ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Foundation. Chalke also made an appearance in a short video lampooning the National Organization for Marriage's anti-gay marriage public service announcement.⁵ 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.⁶

Personal life

She is engaged to lawyer Jamie Afifi, with whom she has a son Charlie Rhodes Afifi, born December 24, 2009.⁷⁸

Her father is a lawyer in private practice in Vancouver. Her parents operate an adoption agency that specializes in placing foreign orphans (primarily Chinese) with Canadian families. Her older sister Natasha is also a lawyer, and she has a younger sister named Piper. In April 2008, Sarah Chalke became a naturalized United States citizen.^{citation needed}

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1999	All Shook Up	Katy Dudston
2000	Spin Cycle	Tess
	Cinderella: Single Again	Cinderella
2001	Kill Me Later	Linda
	XCU: Extreme Close Up	Jane Bennett
2005	Alchemy	Samantha Rose
	Cake	Jane
2007	Chaos Theory	Paula Crowe
	Mama's Boy	Maya
2008	Prop 8: The Musical	Scary Catholic School Girls From Hell	Short film

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1992	City Boy	Angelica	TV film
1993	Neon Rider	Annie	Episode: "Labour Day"
	The Odyssey	Estate Agent	Episode: "A Place Called Nowhere"
	Relentless: Mind of a Killer	Carrie	TV film
	Woman on the Ledge	Elizabeth	TV film
1993-97	Roseanne	Becky Conner-Healy	70 episodes Recurring role starting with the Season 6 episode "Homecoming"
1994	Ernest Goes to School	Maisy	as Sarah Chalk
	Beyond Obsession	Laura Sawyer	TV film
1996	Robin of Locksley	Marion Fitzwater	TV film
	Dead Ahead	Heather Loch	TV film
	Stand Against Fear	Krista Wilson	TV film
1997	Daughters	Annie Morrell	TV film
	A Child's Wish	Melinda	TV film
	Dying to Belong	Drea Davenport	TV film
	Dead Man's Gun	Murial Jakes	Episode: "The Bounty Hunter"
1998	I've Been Waiting for You	Sarah Zoltanne	TV film
1999	Y2K	Myra	TV film
	First Wave	Chloe Wells	Episode: "The Channel"
1999-00	Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	Gloria Hobson	23 episodes Main role starting with the episode "Home Alone"
2001–present	Scrubs	Dr. Elliot Reid	Seasons: 1-9 Main role
2002	It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie	Dr. Elliot Reid	TV film
2002-03	Clone High	Marie Antoinette	Episodes: "Election Blu-Galoo", "A Room of One's Clone: The Pie of the Storm", "Makeover, Makeover, Makeover: The Makeover Episode"
2006	Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy	Geralyn Lucas	TV film
2007	Saturday Night Live	Dr. Elliot Reid	"Zach Braff/Maroon 5"
2008-09	How I Met Your Mother	Stella Zinman	Episodes: "Ten Sessions", "Rebound Bro", "Miracles", "Do I Know You?", "I Heart NJ", "Shelter Island", "Happily Ever After", "Right Place Right Time", "As Fast As She Can"
2009	Maneater	Clarissa Alpert	Episodes: "Part 1", "Part 2" Mini-series
	Prep and Landing	Magee	TV special Voice

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sarah Chalke

• Sarah Chalke at the Internet Movie Database
• Sarah Chalke at TV.com