Sarah Cassandra Chalke (born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian actress with dual American and Canadian citizenship, best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC comedy Scrubs, Becky Conner Healy on Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.It's Official: Chalke Returning to Mother! Is Brit Next?" TV Guide. April 21, 2008. Retrieved on April 22, 2008.

Early life

Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the middle of the three daughters of Douglas and Angie Chalke. Her mother is originally from Rostock, Germany. According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to attend the German school in her hometown twice a week. Her first language is English, although she speaks French fairly well and German fluently. This was later incorporated to her character Elliot Reid in Scrubs, who also speaks German fluently. Chalke graduated from Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver in 1994.