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Sarah Cassandra
Chalke (born August 27, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a
Canadian television and movie actress best known for
portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC sitcom Scrubs and
also for portraying Becky Conner Healy on ABC's
Roseanne.
Early life: Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada, and was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She is the middle of the three daughters of Doug and
Angie Chalke. Her mother is from Rostock, Germany.
Chalke maintains contact with her German relatives.
According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to
attend the German school in her hometown twice a week.
She speaks German and French fluently. She is currently
engaged to Jamie Afifi.
Acting career: Chalke's acting career began at
the age of 8 when she began appearing in musical theatre
productions. At 16, she became a reporter on the
Canadian children's show KidZone. Her "big
break" came in 1993 when she took over the role of
Becky (Conner) Healy on Roseanne from Lecy Goranson; she
also made a non-Becky cameo appearance 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, starting with Ernest Goes to
School (1994). She also 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.
A bubbly, comedically-gifted performer and a veteran of
two major network TV series, Sarah Chalke’s first
claim to fame was as Lecy Goransen’s replacement as
the troubled daughter, Becky Conner, on the seminal
sitcom, “Roseanne” (ABC, 1988-1997). Chalke would
later shine even brighter on another popular sitcom –
a one-two punch most television actors experience just
once if they are lucky. As the deadpan and adoringly
lovelorn Dr. Elliot Reid of the NBC medical dramedy
“Scrubs” (NBC, 2001- ), Chalke mastered the deadpan
delivery and goofy antics the hit medical comedy was
known for, as well as held her own alongside such
seasoned comic actors as Ken Jenkins (Dr. Kelso) and
John C. McGinley (Dr. Cox).
Born in Ottawa, Ontario on Aug. 27, 1976, Sarah
Cassandra Chalke was the middle child of three. Raised
by their parents to enjoy culture and have an
appreciation for the arts, Chalke and her two sisters
participated in local stage shows and musical theater
productions throughout her childhood. At 16, she got her
first job in front of the cameras as an on-air reporter
for a popular television show in Canada called KidZone
(CBC, 1992). Chalke’s screen acting debut, a small
role in a made-for-TV movie called “City Boy”
(1992), was enough to establish her credentials in
casting circles.
In 1993, when Lecy Goransen – one of the stars of the
hit comedy “Roseanne” – announced she was leaving
the show to attend college, producers were left in a
quandary. Goransen’s character of Becky, the eldest of
the Connor clan’s children, had been conceived as a
core element of the show. Rather than write the
character out completely, producers decided to simply
recast the role and hope for the best. Chalke was one of
the young actresses who auditioned, but considered
herself a long shot due to her own limited resume and
Canadian nationality.
To her complete shock, Chalke won the role. Seemingly
unintimidated in her audition, Chalke’s natural spunk
and instant chemistry with star Roseanne Arnold had
sealed the deal. The fact that Chalke bore little
physical resemblance to Lecy Goransen was a non-issue
and was, in fact, even played for laughs. Without ever
addressing the issue directly, producers invited
audiences to share in on the joke by deciding to reshoot
the classic “Roseanne”’ opening, with the Connors
sitting around the table. The sequence, which used
morphing technology to show the actors’ progressions
over the seasons, had Becky’s face literally begin as
Goransen’s before changing to Chalke’s – one of
many knowing winks of acknowledgement to viewers at
home.
Chalke graduated high school in 1995 while shooting the
seventh season of “Roseanne” – her last full
season before Goransen returned to resume the role. At
one point, the two actresses even alternated playing
Becky towards the end of the run, as the show’s tone
started heading into more surreal territory. For
instance, the eighth season premiere kicked off with
Goransen (as Becky) entering the living room, prompting
her family to chide, "Where the hell have you been?
It feels like you've been gone for three years!" To
which Becky responds, "Why does everyone keep
saying that?" The matter of Chalke’s exit/
Goransen’s return as Becky continued to be a running
gag until Chalke’s last show.
After “Roseanne,” Chalke appeared in a handful of
television movies; the most notable being “Stand
Against Fear” (1996), in which she played a teenage
cheerleader who must stand up alone against sexual
harassment. In 1997, Chalke returned to Canada to shoot
a made-for-TV film called “Nothing Too Good for a
Cowboy,” based on the book by author Richmond P.
Hobson. Chalke was singled out by critics for her
performance as lovelorn teen Gloria McIntosh and the
movie did well enough to spawn a brief weekly CBC series
of the same name. Chalke reprised her role, but the show
lasted only one season and went off the air in 1999.
In 2000, the actress seriously considered taking a break
from acting to attend college. As fate would have it, at
that same moment of indecision, Chalke landed the
biggest role of her career to date – Dr. Eliot Reed in
the medical comedy-drama “Scrubs.” The story of
three interns learning the ways of love, life, and
medicine in a fictional hospital, “Scrubs” was an
immediate hit with critics and fans alike. By the end of
its first year, its audience had grown exponentially,
making it one of NBC’s most popular shows and one of
the last of the peacock network’s successful 90’s
holdover sitcoms.
Breast cancer activist: Chalke lost her aunt and
grandmother to breast cancer because they weren't
diagnosed while the cancer was in its early stages. As a
result, Chalke decided to encourage breast cancer
awareness by starring in Lifetime's movie Why I Wore
Lipstick To My Mastectomy.
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