Sarah Chalke

Sarah Chalke
Chalke in 2008
Born	Sarah Louise Christine Chalke (1976-08-27) August 27, 1976 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupations	Actress model
Years active	1992–present
Known for	Roseanne Scrubs How I Met Your Mother Rick and Morty Firefly Lane
Partner	Jamie Afifi (2003–2022)
Children	2

Sarah Louise Christine Chalke (/ˈtʃɔːk/; born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian actress and model. She is known for portraying Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy series Scrubs, the second Becky Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, Stella Zinman on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Beth Smith on Adult Swim's adult animated science-fiction series Rick and Morty. She also had a recurring role on the third season of the ABC/TBS sitcom Cougar Town. She has done voice acting for the Netflix series Paradise PD and was a star cast member in Firefly Lane, which premiered on Netflix in February 2021. As of November 2021, Chalke voices Stella, the tactical officer in the Netflix series Dogs in Space.

Early life

Chalke was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital on August 27, 1976, in Ottawa, Ontario, and was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the middle of three daughters born to Douglas and Angela Chalke (née Piper).

Her mother is 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, but she speaks German fluently and French "fairly well". This was incorporated into her Scrubs character, Elliot Reid, who spoke German and French at the same levels. Chalke graduated from Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver in 1994.

Career

Chalke's acting career began at age 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; Chalke made a cameo appearance as a different character in the Roseanne episode "Halloween: The Final Chapter" (#178, originally aired October 31, 1995) after Goranson returned. Chalke later returned to the role of Becky after Goranson departed for a second time. After the show ended, Chalke 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 and she would be a cast member for all nine seasons until the series ended its run in 2010. 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 fellow Canadian 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. In 2008 and 2009, she made appearances in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Stella Zinman. In early 2011, she starred in the CBS television series Mad Love, a romantic comedy which debuted as a midseason replacement and was cancelled after only one season was produced.

Chalke was signed by former Scrubs executive producer Bill Lawrence to play the love interest of Bobby Cobb in the series Cougar Town. She appeared in multiple episodes in the third season. Chalke starred in the ABC comedy series How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), which premiered April 3, 2013, and which was cancelled one month later. She played Polly, a single and very uptight divorced mother who found herself moving back in with her parents (Elizabeth Perkins and Brad Garrett) because of the economic downturn. Also in 2013, she played a frantic mother named Casey Hedges in the Grey's Anatomy season 9 episode "Can't Fight This Feeling". Chalke also voices Beth on the show Rick and Morty.

On April 28, 2017, it was announced that a revival of Roseanne was in the works, and that most of the original cast and some of the producers would return for the revival series. On May 16, 2017, it was confirmed that eight episodes of the show were greenlit by ABC and would air mid-season in 2018 with Chalke returning, but playing a role other than Becky Conner. Following its cancellation, she later returned for a guest appearance in its spinoff series, The Conners.

In February 2021, Chalke co-starred alongside Katherine Heigl in the role of Kate Mularkey for the Netflix series Firefly Lane.

Personal life

In December 2006, Chalke became engaged to Canadian lawyer Jamie Afifi, after three years of dating. In September 2022, Chalke announced that they had called off the engagement and "separated some time ago". They have two children together, a son born in December 2009, and a daughter born in May 2016. Her son was diagnosed at two years old with Kawasaki disease.

Activism

Chalke's aunt and grandmother died from breast cancer that was undiagnosed while in its early stages. She has since encouraged breast cancer detection and prevention, and starred in the Lifetime movie Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. She is an ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Foundation. Chalke also made an appearance in a short video parodying a National Organization for Marriage's advertisement opposing same-sex marriage, "Gathering Storm". She was the 2009 ambassador for the Susan G. Komen Passionately Pink for the Cure program, for which she also designed a T-shirt.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Ernest Goes to School	Maisy
1997	Dying to Belong	Drea Davenport
1999	Y2K	Myra Soljev
1999	All Shook Up	Katy Dudston
2000	Cinderella: Single Again	Cinderella	Short
2000	Spin Cycle	Tess
2001	Kill Me Later	Linda
2001	XCU: Extreme Close Up	Jane Bennett
2005	Alchemy	Samantha Rose
2005	Cake	Jane
2007	Mama's Boy	Maya
2008	Chaos Theory	Paula Crowe
2016	Mother's Day	Gabi
2016	After the Reality	Kate
2020	The Wrong Missy	Julia
2020	Eat Wheaties!	Frankie Riceborough

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	The Odyssey	Realtor	Episode: "A Place Called Nowhere"
1992	Neon Rider	Annie	Episode: "Labour Day"
1992	City Boy	Angelica	TV film
1993	Relentless: Mind of a Killer	Carrie	TV film
1993	Woman on the Ledge	Elizabeth	TV film
1993–1997, 2018	Roseanne	Becky Conner-Healy / Andrea	Main role (seasons 6–7, 9) / recurring (8, 10)
1994	Beyond Obsession	Laura Sawyer	TV film
1996	Robin of Locksley	Marion Fitzwater	TV film
1996	Dead Ahead	Heather Loch	TV film
1996	Stand Against Fear	Krista Wilson	TV film
1997	A Child's Wish	Melinda	TV film
1997	Dying to Belong	Drea Davenport	TV film
1997	Daughters	Annie Morrell	TV film
1997	Dead Man's Gun	Muriel Jakes	Episode: "The Bounty Hunter"
1998	I've Been Waiting for You	Sarah Zoltanne	TV film
1999	First Wave	Chloe Wells	Episode: "The Channel"
1999–2000	Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	Gloria Hobson	Main role
2001–2010	Scrubs	Elliot Reid	Main role (seasons 1–8), recurring (season 9)
2002	It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie	Elliot Reid	TV film
2002–2003	Clone High	X-Stream Erin, Marie Antoinette (voice)	Episodes: "Election Blu-Galoo", "A Room of One's Clone", "Make, Makeover, Makeover"
2003–2004	The 'Bu	Melissa	Main role
2006	Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy	Geralyn Lucas	TV film
2008	Little Britain USA	Lisa Warren	Deleted Scene
2008–2009, 2014	How I Met Your Mother	Stella Zinman	Recurring role (seasons 3–4), guest (season 9)
2009	Scrubs: Interns	Dr. Elliot Reid	Episode: "Our Bedside Manner"
2009	Maneater	Clarissa Alpert	TV miniseries
2009	The Fresh Beat Band	The Good Witch	Episodes: "The Wizard of Song: Parts 1 & 2"
2009	Prep & Landing	Magee (voice)	TV film
2010	Team Spitz	Alicia	TV film
2010	Freshmen	Jane	TV film
2011	Mad Love	Kate Swanson	Main role
2011, 2017	American Dad!	Cam, Meredith (voice)	Episodes: "Stanny Boy and Frantastic", "The Bitchin' Race"
2011	Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice	Magee (voice)	TV film
2012	Cougar Town	Angie	Episodes: "Full Moon Fever", "A One Story Town", "Something Big", "You Can Still Change Your Mind"
2013	Grey's Anatomy	Casey Hedges	Episode: "Can't Fight This Feeling"
2013	How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)	Polly Green-Tatham	Main role
2013–present	Rick and Morty	Beth Smith (voice)	Main role
2014	Really	Lori	Episode: "Pilot"
2015	Backstrom	Amy Gazanian	Recurring role
2015	Undateable	Sarah Chalke	Episode: "A Rock and a Hard Place Walk Into a Bar"
2015	Tit for Tat	Sarah	Episode: "Booby Scare 2"
2016	Angie Tribeca	Mrs. Parsons	Episode: "The Famous Ventriloquist Did It"
2016	Inside Amy Schumer	Amy #2	Episode: "Psychopath Test"
2016–2019	Milo Murphy's Law	Mrs. Murawski (voice)	Recurring role
2017–2019	Speechless	Melanie	Recurring role
2018	Nobodies	Sarah Chalke	Episode: "Alone Star State"
2018	The Conners	Andrea	Episode: "One Flew Over the Conners' Nest"
2018	Friends from College	Merrill Morgan	Recurring role (season 2)
2018–2021	Paradise PD	Gina Jabowski (voice)	Main role (seasons 1–3)
2020	Psych 2: Lassie Come Home	Nurse Dolores	TV film
2021–present	Firefly Lane	Kate Mularkey	Main role
2021–present	Dogs in Space	Stella (voice)	Main role
2023	Hailey's On It!	The Professor (voice)	Recurring role

External links

• Sarah Chalke at IMDb