Sarah Chalke

Biography of Sarah Chalke

Sarah Louise Christine Chalke was born on August 27, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario. She is a Canadian-American actress and voice actress of German descent.

Chalke began her acting career in the 1992 TV movie City Boy. The role of Becky Conner in the US sitcom Roseanne, which she took over in 1993 at the age of 16, helped her to become famous for her predecessor Alicia Goranson.

After the film Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998), she landed the lead role in the Canadian series of the same name that same year. In December she was awarded the role of Elliot Reid in the television series Scrubs. Filming began in March 2001.

Losing her aunt and grandmother to breast cancer, she took on the lead role in the 2006 film Why Iwore lipstick ( to my mastectomy), which traced the medical history of the American journalist Geralyn Lucas. In 2007 she starred in the feature film Mama's Boy.

In 2008 she also had the role of Dr. Stella Zinman on the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother, other recurring supporting roles include Cougar Town in 2012 and Speechless from 2017 to 2019, after starring in the short-lived sitcom How to Live with Your Parents.

In the sequel to the sitcom Roseanne, a good 20 years after the end, Goranson took over the role of Becky Connor again, but Chalke also belonged to the cast with a new recurring supporting role. After the series was canceled, she also guest-starred in this role on the follow-up series The Conners.

Chalke has beenengagedto a lawyer since 2006. Chalke gave birth to a son on December 24, 2009, and a daughter followed in April 2016.