24 Facts About Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Louise Christine Chalke is a Canadian actress and model.

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Sarah Chalke 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.

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Sarah Chalke was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital on August 27,1976, in Ottawa, Ontario, and was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Sarah Chalke is the middle of three daughters born to Douglas and Angela Chalke.

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Sarah Chalke graduated from Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver in 1994.

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Sarah Chalke's acting career began at age eight when she began appearing in musical theatre productions.

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In 1993, she took over the role of Rebecca Conner-Healy on Roseanne after Lecy Goranson left the series; Sarah Chalke made a cameo appearance as a different character in the Roseanne episode "Halloween: The Final Chapter" after Goranson returned.

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Sarah Chalke later returned to the role of Becky after Goranson departed for a second time.

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Sarah Chalke has appeared in several feature films, including Ernest Goes to School and Cake.

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Sarah Chalke appeared in Channel 101's The 'Bu with The Lonely Island, a parody of the hit show The OC.

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In 2008, Sarah 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.

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Sarah Chalke was signed by former Scrubs executive producer Bill Lawrence to play the love interest of Bobby Cobb in the series Cougar Town.

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Sarah Chalke appeared in multiple episodes in the third season.

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Sarah Chalke starred in the ABC comedy series How to Live with Your Parents, which premiered April 3,2013, and which was cancelled one month later.

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Sarah Chalke played Polly, a single and very uptight divorced mother who found herself moving back in with her parents because of the economic downturn.

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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 Sarah Chalke returning, but playing a role other than Becky Conner.

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

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In December 2006, Sarah Chalke became engaged to Canadian lawyer Jamie Afifi, after three years of dating.

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In September 2022, Sarah Chalke announced that they had called off the engagement and "separated some time ago".

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Sarah Chalke's son was diagnosed at two years old with Kawasaki disease.

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Sarah Chalke has since encouraged breast cancer detection and prevention, and starred in the Lifetime movie Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy.

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Sarah Chalke is an ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Foundation.

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Sarah Chalke made an appearance in a short video parodying a National Organization for Marriage's advertisement opposing same-sex marriage, "Gathering Storm".

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Sarah Chalke was the 2009 ambassador for the Susan G Komen Passionately Pink for the Cure program, for which she designed a T-shirt.