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He reprised Fred here. And he still did in Season 9.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' (2005 -- present) as Fred Jones (voice)
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** He initially signed on for ''Series/NancyDrew2019'' as Nancy's father, Carson Drew, but dropped out shortly before the first trailer was released and was replaced by Scott Wolf.

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* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' (2002) as Fred Jones

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** ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' (2004)



* ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' (2004) as Fred Jones

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* ''Anime/MassEffectParagonLost'' (2012) as James Vega
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* AscendedFanboy: Prinze is an avid gamer, and (to date) has voiced major roles in two video game franchises. He's also a fan of anime, which is kind of realized in ''Anime/MassEffectParagonLost'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''.


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* PromotedFanboy: Prinze is an avid gamer, and (to date) has voiced major roles in two video game franchises. He's also a fan of anime, which is kind of realized in ''Anime/MassEffectParagonLost'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' (2014 -- present) as Kanan Jarrus (voice)

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* AscendedFanboy: Prinze is an avid gamer, and (to date) has voiced major roles in two video game franchises.

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* AscendedFanboy: Prinze is an avid gamer, and (to date) has voiced major roles in two video game franchises. He's also a fan of anime, which is kind of realized in ''Anime/MassEffectParagonLost'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''.



* HostilityOnTheSet: He revealed at a Comic-Con that he hated working on ''Film/TwentyFour'' and working with Creator/KieferSutherland.

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* HostilityOnTheSet: He revealed at a Comic-Con that he hated working on ''Film/TwentyFour'' ''Series/TwentyFour'' and working with Creator/KieferSutherland.


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* LyingCreator: To prevent spoilers, during the last season of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', he responded to questions about Kanan's date that [[spoiler:Creator/DaveFiloni talked to him about what's next for Kanan, which was supposedly very extensive. Turns out he was lying (or possibly [[ExactWords didn't mean it in the immediate future]]), because Kanan ends up dead a couple of episodes later. It was also later revealed that he had been asking Filoni to kill him off for a while already.]]


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** To anyone that grew up in the 2000's, he's most well-known for his role as Fred Jones in the first two ''[[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby-]][[Film/ScoobyDoo2MonstersUnleashed Doo]]'' movies.
*** "Hey! Dorky chicks like you [Velma] turn me on too!"
*** "I think Coolsville sucks!"
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* OneOfUs: He likes anime and manga (including ''Manga/Golgo13''), video games (like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; he has his own Twitch channel), movies like ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' and ''Film/SevenSamurai'', the list goes on. And of course, he's also a ''Star Wars'' fan.

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* OldShame: Averted; he doesn't regret doing the two ''Scooby-Doo'' movies.

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* OldShame: Averted; he doesn't regret doing the two ''Scooby-Doo'' movies. In fact, he embraces it.
** During one of his streams, a viewer commented that he should play the video game adaptation of the movie. Freddie laughed and responded that he would if it exists (in fact, there are two games on the Game Boy Advance that adapt both movies).
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Mass Effect 3 came out on March 6, 2012.


* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' (2013) as James Vega

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* HostilityOnTheSet: He revealed at a Comic-Con that he hated working on ''Film/TwentyFour'' and working with Creator/KieferSutherland.
-->I did ''24''; it was terrible. I hated every moment of it. Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face. I think everyone that's worked with him has said that. I just wanted to quit the business after that. So, I just sort of stopped.
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Prinze is married to actress Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, with whom he has two children. They met while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and also appeared together (as love interests) in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.

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Prinze is married to actress Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, with whom he has two children. They met while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and also appeared together (as love interests) in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.films and ''Rebels'' ([[IronyAsSheIsCast as enemies]]).
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His father, the late [[Series/ChicoAndTheMan Freddie Prinze Sr.]], was also an actor.

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His father, the late [[Series/ChicoAndTheMan Freddie Prinze Sr.]], , was also an actor.
actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.
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* OldShame: Averted; he doesn't regret doing the two ''Scooby-Doo'' movies.
* OneOfUs: He likes anime and manga (including ''Manga/Golgo13''), video games (like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; he has his own Twitch channel), movies like ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' and ''Film/SevenSamurai'', the list goes on. And of course, he's also a ''Star Wars'' fan.


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* RomanceOnTheSet: He met wife Sarah Michelle Gellar while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and they played one another's love interest in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** He was almost TOM for ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'', though it hasn't been specified if this was for the first TOM (who ended up being played by Creator/SonnyStrait) or the subsequent TOM incarnations (which Creator/SteveBlum ended playing).
** For ''Film/PunisherWarZone'', according to the director, he auditioned for the part of Jigsaw and was apparently quite good but [[ExecutiveMeddling the executives told her not to cast him when they had to MAKE the director see him for an audition]].

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* ''[[TheDanza Freddie]]'' (2005 -- 2006)

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* OldShame: Averted. No, he doesn't regret doing two Scooby Doo movies.
* OneOfUs: He likes anime and manga (including ''Manga/Golgo13''), video games (like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; he has his own Twitch channel), movies like ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' and ''Film/SevenSamurai'', the list goes on. And of course, he's also a ''Star Wars'' fan.



* RomanceOnTheSet: He met wife Sarah Michelle Gellar while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and they played one another's love interest in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** He was almost TOM for ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'', though it hasn't been specified if this was for the first TOM (who ended up being played by Creator/SonnyStrait) or the subsequent TOM incarnations (which Creator/SteveBlum ended playing).
** For ''Film/PunisherWarZone'', according to the director, he auditioned for the part of Jigsaw and was apparently quite good but [[ExecutiveMeddling the executives told her not to cast him when they had to MAKE the director see him for an audition]].
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* HappilyMarried: Fifteen years and counting to Sarah Michelle Gellar though they actually met twenty years ago.
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->''"Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with."''
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'''Freddie James Prinze Jr.''' (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, writer, and producer.

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'''Freddie Freddie James Prinze Jr.''' Jr. (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, writer, and producer.
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** He was almost TOM for ''Creator/Toonami'', though it hasn't been specified if this was for the first TOM (who ended up being played by Creator/SonnyStrait) or the subsequent TOM incarnations (which Creator/SteveBlum ended playing).

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** He was almost TOM for ''Creator/Toonami'', ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'', though it hasn't been specified if this was for the first TOM (who ended up being played by Creator/SonnyStrait) or the subsequent TOM incarnations (which Creator/SteveBlum ended playing).

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* OneOfUs: He likes anime and manga (including ''Manga/Golgo13''), video games (like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; he has his own Twitch channel), movies like ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' and ''Film/SevenSamurai'', the list goes on.

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* OneOfUs: He likes anime and manga (including ''Manga/Golgo13''), video games (like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; he has his own Twitch channel), movies like ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' and ''Film/SevenSamurai'', the list goes on. And of course, he's also a ''Star Wars'' fan.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** He was almost TOM for ''Creator/Toonami'', though it hasn't been specified if this was for the first TOM (who ended up being played by Creator/SonnyStrait) or the subsequent TOM incarnations (which Creator/SteveBlum ended playing).
** For ''Film/PunisherWarZone'', according to the director, he auditioned for the part of Jigsaw and was apparently quite good but [[ExecutiveMeddling the executives told her not to cast him when they had to MAKE the director see him for an audition]].
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** He has built authentic, real internet friendships (to the "ask about each other's families" level, as he puts it) with some of the people who began as merely fans, usually over discussions of some common interest -- cooking, martial arts, and video games being the easiest way for this to happen. And these friendships can get pretty deep. One time, when one of his "Twitter friends" went silent due to suffering a sudden massive stroke, Prinze didn't sleep for nearly two days, waiting for word that the friend was going to make it out okay.

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** ''I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'' (1998)

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** ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' (2004)



* ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' (2004) as Fred Jones



* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' (2012 -- 2013) as James Vega (voice):
** ''Anime/MassEffectParagonLost'' (2012)
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* RetiredBadass: He's retired from live-action roles to be a familyman, but he's also trained in martial arts, so don't even try to mess with him.

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* NiceGuy:
** Watch his Twitch streams or even join the chatroom during a livestream. He enjoys talking to the chat while he plays.
** Likewise in his interviews and on Twitter. He even used to roleplay with a group of ''Star Wars'' roleplayers when ''Rebels'' first started.
** He's confessed that he won't play ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' because he's going to be obsessed with his role as a healer, which is healing people, just like he was in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' and ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''.



* RomanceOnTheSet: Het met wife Sarah Michelle Gellar while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and they played one another's love interest in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.

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* RomanceOnTheSet: Het He met wife Sarah Michelle Gellar while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and they played one another's love interest in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.
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* OldShame: Averted. No, he doesn't regret doing two Scooby Doo movies.
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* OneOfUs: He likes anime and manga (including ''Manga/Golgo13''), video games (like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''; he has his own Twitch channel), movies like ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' and ''Film/SevenSamurai'', the list goes on.
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'''Freddie James Prinze Jr.''' (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, writer, and producer.

Prinze is perhaps best known for starring in a string of youth-oriented films throughout the mid-late [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties 90s]], such as ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', ''Summer Catch'', and ''Film/ShesAllThat''. He also starred in both live-action ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' movies as Fred Jones, and ''[[TheDanza Freddie]]'', a {{sitcom}} he co-created.

Outside of live-action film and television, Prinze has also done some voiceover work in animated works and video games. Most notably, he portrays James Vega in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe, Iron Bull in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', and Kanan Jarrus in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''.

Prinze is married to actress Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, with whom he has two children. They met while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and also appeared together (as love interests) in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.

His father, the late [[Series/ChicoAndTheMan Freddie Prinze Sr.]], was also an actor.

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!! Selected filmography:
* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' (1997) as Ray Bronson
** ''I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'' (1998)
* ''Film/ShesAllThat'' (1999) as Zack Siler
* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' (2002) as Fred Jones
** ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' (2004)
* ''Series/BostonLegal'' (2003 -- 2004) as Donny Crane
* ''[[TheDanza Freddie]]'' (2005 -- 2006)
* ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNEverAfter'' (2006) as Rick (voice)
* ''Series/WWERaw'' (2008 -- 2009) {{as himself}} (also writer)
* ''Series/TwentyFour'' (2010) as Cole Ortiz
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' (2012 -- 2013) as James Vega (voice):
** ''Anime/MassEffectParagonLost'' (2012)
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' (2013)
* ''Series/WitchesOfEastEnd'' (2013) as Leo Wingate
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' (2013) as Danny Beck
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' (2014) as Iron Bull (voice)
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' (2014 -- present) as Kanan Jarrus (voice)

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!! Freddie Prinze Jr. provides examples of the following tropes:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Prinze is half-Puerto Rican on his father's side and is fluent in Spanish, but many of his roles don't reflect that heritage; justified in that he's fairly white-passing.
* AscendedFanboy: Prinze is an avid gamer, and (to date) has voiced major roles in two video game franchises.
* DisappearedDad: His father, Freddie Prinze Sr., died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds less than a year after his birth.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Het met wife Sarah Michelle Gellar while filming ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and they played one another's love interest in the ''Scooby Doo'' films.
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