Freddie Prinze Jr is an actor, writer, and producer. He has starred in films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), She’s All That (1999), Summer Catch (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004). Prinze has also had recurring and starring roles in television shows, including Friends (2002), Boston Legal (2004), Freddie (2005-06) and 24 (2010), and voiced Kanan Jarrus in the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels, The Iron Bull from Dragon Age: Inquisition and James Vegas from Mass Effect 3. Freddie is also a WWE fan and has worked as a producer and director with WWE.
Freddie Prinze, Jr. was born on March 8, 1976, in Los Angeles, California, to Kathy Prinze (née Kathy Elaine Barber) and comedian/actor Freddie Prinze. He is of Puerto Rican, German, English, and Irish descent. Freddie lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in his early life. He attended three different schools during his childhood: Eldorado, Sandia, and La Cueva. After graduating in 1994, Freddie moved to L.A. to focus on an acting career. He immediately garnered featured roles on several episodic series, one of which was an episode of The Gun, in which Freddie had a four-line part playing a punk kid who brought a gun to school. “That was my big break, and I thought it was huge,” says Freddie. He then went on to appear in a few after-school specials, including Too Soon for Jeff and Detention: The Siege at Johnson High co-starring Ricky Schroder and Henry Winkler.
Freddie is an avid tabletop gamer, founding the YouTube channel GEGGHEAD (Good Evening & Good Game) alongside fellow actor/writer/producer Jon Lee Brody. Freddie and Jon also produce the That Way Pretty Scary podcast, a deep dive into various horror-themed properties. Alongside comedian and fellow wrestling fan Jeff Dye, Freddie produces the Wrestling with Freddie podcast.
Freddie is married to actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, with whom he has two children.