This Day, That Year – March 8

This day in history we feature Freddie Prinze Jr. An American actor, television and film producer and screenwriter was born on this day in 1976.

Trivia – Freddie Prinze Jr

Freddie Prinze Jr. has starred in films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, She’s All That, Summer Catch, Scooby-Doo, and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Prinze has also had recurring and starring roles in television shows, including Friends, Boston Legal, Freddie. He voiced Kanan Jarrus in the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels. He is the only child of comedian and actor Freddie Prinze.

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Prinze was cast in a guest role on the ABC TV series Family Matters in 1995. He then appeared in a few programs and made-for-TV movies, before making his motion picture debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday in 1996. In subsequent years, Prinze appeared in youth-oriented movies I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), made him known to teenage audiences. His first leading role, the romantic comedy She’s All That (1999), grossed $63 million in the United States. Prinze is a WWE fan and was seen on television in attendance at the March 2008 WrestleMania XXIV pay-per-view and its preceding Hall of Fame ceremony. He also made a cameo on an episode of The Dirt Sheet, an online program hosted by wrestlers John Morrison and The Miz. He had created an official profile on WWE’s “Universe” blog community where he would regularly write his thoughts about the current goings-on in the world of the WWE. His relationship with the company was furthered when he was hired as a member of the creative staff to contribute to weekly television and pay-per-view programming for the SmackDown brand. It was reported on February 22, 2009 that Prinze and WWE had parted ways. In January 2021, Prinze explained that he had actually chosen to leave the company at that time. Prinze returned to WWE on October 1, 2010 in a role as a producer and director. On the November 1, 2010 episode of Monday Night Raw, Prinze made an on-screen appearance as Vince McMahon’s doctor, a dream sequence scene that coincided with Linda McMahon’s attempt to win a seat in the Senate for the state of Connecticut. Prinze left WWE for a second time due to a comment made by Stone Cold Steve Austin to a contestant while taping an episode of the fifth season of WWE Tough Enough. In November 2021, Prinze started his own podcast Wrestling With Freddie.

Source – Wikipedia