Sarah Chalke is a model and actress from Canada. Sarah Chalke was born on August 27, 1976, at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario,  to Angie Chalke and Douglas Chalke

She is the middle child of Douglas and Angela Chalke who have three daughters. Her mother is originally from Rostock, Germany.

Her parents run an adoption agency that places placing foreign orphans’ mostly Chinese children with Canadian families. Her father is a lawyer in Vancouver who runs a private practice.

Sarah Chalke used to go to a German school in her hometown twice a week, according to a Scrubs commentary track. Her first language is English, but she also speaks fluent German and “fairly well” French.

This was incorporated into her Scrubs character, Elliot Reid, who was fluent in both German and French. Chalke graduated from North Vancouver’s Handsworth Secondary School in 1994.

Sarah Chalke’s aunt and grandmother died of undiagnosed breast cancer in its early stages. She has since advocated for the early detection and prevention of breast cancer and starred in the Lifetime film Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. She supports the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Foundation as an ambassador.