With his doe eyes and April-fresh skin, Freddie Prinze Jr. seemed a natural superior of the fashionable-'90s Hollywood teen invasion. Eminent as much in the direction of his looks as in place of his acting, Prinze has proven to entertain a authentic appeal that has endured him to legions of fans. The beginning of Prinze's way of life was a turbulent sole, as his father, the actor Freddie Prinze (best known for his starring post on NBC's Chico and the Man) committed suicide when the ... younger Prinze was contrariwise ten months shabby. Born in Los Angeles on Parade 8, 1976, Prinze moved with his mother to Albuquerque, NM, presently after his forebear's death. Growing up in New Mexico, Prinze was a scant student who decided to conform to in his father's celluloid footsteps. After his squiffed-school graduation in 1994, Prinze took off benefit of Los Angeles with little gain and not many prospects.

However, he eventually found shape in Hollywood, first appearing in various television shows, including an episode of Family Matters and a few afterschool specials. The actor first up against it into take as Claire Danes' boyfriend in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996). The voice was a small one, but helped Prinze to secure his next and more sizeable role in The Lineage of Yes (1997), a corrupt little black comedy that starred Parker Posey as Prinze's deliciously unsteady sister. The film's release was on balance little to skilfulness houses, to Prinze's next film, I Separate What You Did Matrix Summer (1997).

The film was a huge commercial, if not decisive, outcome that propelled Prinze into, if not the limelight, then the hearts of many girls and more than a scattering boys everywhere. Following this rapture, Prinze went on to do a yoke of forgettable films before the 1998 sequel I Still Separate What You Did Last Summer. The combined impact of that film and the success of Prinze's next outstanding project, She's All That, gave the actor to greater fame and caused least anybody stringer to dub him the next Leonardo Di Caprio. Unfortunately, Prinze's following endeavor, Wing Commander (1999), proved to be an unmitigated calamity, serving to exemplify the hidebound fluctuations of success in Hollywood. Prinze's growing acceptance, in what way, seemed to responsive to relatively unscathed, judging by the slew of websites erected in his name. If there was any in doubt that the actor's repute was waning in the wake of Wing Commander's lackluster performance, that fear would soon be confirmed with laborious numbers, as a triple threat of romantic comedies unceremoniously removed the teen-crowd superstar empress from Prinze's crest. The cookie-cutter offerings Down to You and Boys and Girls (the latter of which reteamed him with She's All That superintendent Robert Iscove) attempted to posit Prinze as a collegiate heartthrob, but both films' about of moony romance with gross-at liberty gags did little to draw moviegoers of any seniority. Anticipation in the interest of his next starring responsibility, alongside Jessica Biel and Matthew Lillard in 2001's Summer Catch, was understandably low; the film was even saddled with a new-August release, traditionally reserved by studios as a "dumping ground" in the direction of unpromising merchandise.

As it turned out, Summer Catch's cross-bred reviews proved more forgiving than its trivial $19 million take. Prinze's next project brought him out of the romantic comedy trend and into the doghouse, or at least the Mystery Car. Re-teaming with his set wafer Lillard and starring -- just again -- en face his longtime appreciate interest Sarah Michelle Gellar, Prinze took on the part of Fred in the combustible-action adjustment of Scooby-Doo in 2002. Nonetheless almost universally panned by critics, the sheet reversed Prinze's dwindling status as a box-corporation draw by appealing to a demographic he'd yet to occupy: preteens.

Not one to look a gift franchise in the mouth, Prinze signed on for another installment, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and took virtually two years off between the blockbusters as he tied the knot with Gellar.