History Creator / FreddiePrinzeJr

* 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.

* 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).

* ''Freddie'' (2005 -- 2006)

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 and ''Rebels'' ([[IronyAsSheIsCast as enemies]]).

** 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.

** To anyone that grew up in the 2000s, he's most well-known for his role as Fred Jones in the first two ''[[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo]][[Film/ScoobyDoo2MonstersUnleashed]]'' movies.

** To anyone that grew up in the 2000s, he's most well-known for his role as Fred Jones in the first two ''[[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby-]][[Film/ScoobyDoo2MonstersUnleashed Doo]]'' movies.

* RetiredBadass: He's retired from live-action roles to be a family man, but he's also trained in martial arts, with black belts in Kenpo Karate and Tang Soo Do and a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so don't even try to mess with him.

* RetiredBadass: He's retired from live-action roles to be a family man, but he's also trained in martial arts, so don't even try to mess with him.

His father, the late Creator/FreddiePrinzeSr, was also an actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.

** ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' (2002)

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' (2014 -- 2018) as [[Characters/StarWarsKananJarrus Kanan Jarrus]] (voice)

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.

** 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.

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' (2014 -- 2018) as Kanan Jarrus (voice)

** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' (2021) as Caleb Dume (Kanan's original name)

His father, the late Creator/FreddiePrinze Sr, was also an actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.

His father, the late Freddie Prinze Sr, was also an actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.

* ''Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' (1998) as Ray Bronson

Freddie James Prinze Jr. (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor, writer, and producer.

** He was [[Creator/WarnerBros Warner Brothers']] first choice for the part of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] in Creator/DarrenAronofsky's adaptation of ''Comicbook/BatmanYearOne''. However, Aronofsky preferred casting Creator/JoaquinPhoenix in the titular role before the project was scrapped.

* ''Series/WWERaw'' (2008 -- 2009) {{as himself}} (also writer)

** 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.

* 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}}''.
** 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.

His father, the late {{Creator/Freddie Prinze Sr}}, was also an actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.

** 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).

** 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.

His father, the late {{Creator/Freddie Prinze Sr.}}, was also an actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.

His father, the late {{CreTor/Freddie Prinze Sr.}}, was also an actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.

His father, the late Freddie Prinze Sr., was also an actor, best known for his starring role on the '70s sitcom ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan''.