Sarah Chalke

Sarah Chalke
Character	Elliot Reid
Date of birth	August 27th, 1976
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Sarah Chalke is the actress who plays Dr. Elliot Reid on Scrubs. She was a member of the main cast for 8 seasons, and was a supporting member of Season Nine.

Bio

Sarah Louise Christine Chalke was born in Ottawa, Canada but her family soon moved to Vancouver B.C. where she grew up with her older and younger sisters. She showed an interest in acting by age 8, but was initially overshadowed by her older sister. Sarah snagged a position in 1990 on the Canadian children's series Kids Zone. In 1992 she made her debut in acting, starring in the TV movie City Boys. A year later she was given the role of Rebecca “Becky” Conner-Healy on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, after the first actress, Lecy Goranson, left the show to attend college. Sarah appeared as Becky from 1993-1995, in the middle of 8th season and in the whole 9th and final season of the show. This switching became a running gag of the show in season 8.

Sarah in the Mad Love opening title.

After deciding not to graduate from college but to focus on acting, Sarah returned to Vancouver in 1998 where she co-starred in the CBC-TV’s Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, which lasted for 2 years and for which she received a Gemini nomination. In September 2000, she moved to Los Angeles and was soon cast for Scrubs. She has since starred in multiple movies, including Alchemy with Tom Cavanagh, Cake starring Heather Graham, and Chaos Theory starring Ryan Reynolds. She continued to appear on the stage. In 2005 she appeared in Create Fate, and the Off-Broadway production Modern Orthodox, filling in for Molly Ringwald. Outside of Scrubs and Roseanne, Sarah is best known for her role as Stella Zinman in How I Met Your Mother, where she was rumored to be the mysterious "mother" character.

Sarah is engaged to the entertainment lawyer Jamie Afifi and her first child, son Charlie Rhodes Afifi, was born on December 24^th 2009.

Trivia

• She speaks French and German fluently (which has been featured in many episodes of Scrubs).
• Has a penchant for advanced yoga, skiing and snowboarding.
• Her nicknames include "Second Becky" for the first couple of years on Scrubs set due to her replacement role in Roseanne. Another common nickname is "Chalkie".
• She loves her brown Labrador Lola, bought for her by the Scrubs cast at a charity auction.
• Sarah has a very special talent: she can write with her "freakishly long finger toes," as she calls them.
• She became a naturalized American citizen in April 2008.
• She lost her aunt and grandmother to cancer and she's passionate about this issue. She wears sunscreen every day and never gets tan. And this is one of the reasons she participated in Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy Lifetime's movie.
  Because of this she's also an avid spokesperson for the breast cancer awareness organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
• Unlike many other Hollywood stars who use fake tear drops, Sarah cries with her own real tears in dramatic scenes.

Filmography

Year	Title	Media	Character
1992	City Boy	TV Movie	Angelica
	Neon Rider	TV	Annie (1 episode)
	The Odyssey	TV	Estate Agent (1 episode)
1993	Relentless: Mind of a Killer	TV Movie	Carrie
	Woman on the Ledge	TV Movie	Elizabeth
	Roseanne	TV	Becky Conner-Healy (69 episodes)
1994	Ernest Goes to School	Film	Maisy
	Beyond Obsession	TV Movie	Laura Sawyer
1996	Robin of Locksley	TV Movie	Marion Fitzwater
	Dead Ahead	TV Movie	Heather Loch
	Stand Against Fear	TV Movie	Krista Wilson
1997	Daughters	TV Movie	Annie Morrell
	A Child's Wish	TV Movie	Melinda
	Dying to Belong	TV Movie	Drea Davenport
	Dead Man's Gun	TV	Murial Jakes (1 episode)
1998	Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	TV Movie	Gloria McIntosh
	Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	TV	Gloria McIntosh Hobson (26 episodes)
	I've Been Waiting for You	TV Movie	Sarah Zoltanne
1999	All Shook Up	Film	Katy Dudston
	Y2K	Film	Myra
	First Wave	TV	Chloe Wells (1 episode)
2000	Spin Cycle	Film	Tess
	Cinderella: Single Again	Film	Cinderella
2001	Kill Me Later	Film	Linda
	XCU: Extreme Close Up	Film	Jane Bennett
	Scrubs	TV	Elliot Reid
2002	It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie	TV Movie	Elliot Reid
	Clone High	TV	X-Stream Erin / Marie Antoinette (3 episodes)
2005	Awesometown	TV Movie	Melissa
	Alchemy	Film	Samantha Rose
	Cake	Film	Jane
2006	Channel 101	TV Movie	Melissa
	Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy	TV Movie	Geralyn Lucas
2007	Chaos Theory	Film	Paula Crowe
	SNL	TV	Elliot Reid (1 episode)
	Mama's Boy	Film	Maya
2008	How I Met Your Mother	TV	Stella Zinman (10 episodes)
	Prop 8: The Musical	Video	Scary Catholic School Girls From Hell
2009	Maneater	TV	Clarissa (2 episodes)
	Prep & Landing	TV Movie	Magee
2010	Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa	TV Special	Magee
2011	Mad Love	TV	Kate Swanson
	American Dad!	TV	Cami (1 episode)
	Cougar Town	TV	Angie LeClaire (4 episodes)
2012	The Fresh Beat Band	TV	Glinda the Good Witch (1 episode)
	Robot Chicken	TV	Raptor #1 / Harold's Wife / Woman (1 episode)
2013	Grey's Anatomy	TV	Casey Hedges (1 episode)
	How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)	TV	Polly (Main Role)
	Rick and Morty	TV	Beth
2014	Really	TV	Lori (1 episode)
2015	Backstrom	TV	Amy Gazanian (6 episodes)

Awards

Year	Ceremony	Award	Result	For
2000	Gemini Awards	Gemini	Nominated	Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role - Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
2003	Teen Choice Awards	Teen Choice Award	Nominated	Choice TV Actress - Comedy - Scrubs
2004	TV Land Awards	TV Land Award	Nominated	Irreplaceable Replacement - Roseanne
2006	TV Land Awards	TV Land Award	Nominated	The Most Irreplaceable Replacement - Roseanne
2008	TV Land Awards	Innovator Award	Won	Roseanne