page_title: Freddie Prinze Jr.
section_title: Television and film
hierarchical_section_title: Freddie Prinze Jr. / Career / Television and film
caption_attribution_description: English: Freddie Prinze, Jr at San Diego Comic-Con 2009 promoting 24 press room.
context_page_description: Frederick James Prinze Jr. is an American actor, voice actor, writer and producer. He has starred in films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, She's All That, Summer Catch, Scooby-Doo, and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Prinze has also had recurring and starring roles in television shows, including Friends, Boston Legal, Freddie and 24, and voiced Kanan Jarrus in the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels.
context_section_description: 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.  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.
  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 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. 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 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. 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 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 Tim and Jim Possible in the Kim Possible movie Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time.
  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, where he played Cole Ortiz, a new CTU operative.
caption: Freddie Prinze Jr. at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con
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