Sarah Chalke

Chalke in 2006, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Sarah Louise Christine Chalke

Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Date of Birth: August 27, 1976

Ethnicity:
*father – English, with Scottish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish
*mother – German

Sarah Chalke is a Canadian actress and model. She starred as Elliot Reid on the series Scrubs.

Her mother, Angela, is from Rostock, Germany. Her father, Douglas, is Canadian. Sarah speaks German fluently, and some French. Sarah was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She has two children with her former fiancé, lawyer Jamie Afifi.

Sarah’s paternal grandfather was Frank Cyril Rhodes Chalke (the son of Cyril Rhodes Chalke and Ethel Dunk). Frank was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sarah’s great-grandfather Cyril was born in Winchester, Hampshire, England, the son of William Rhodes Chalke and Alice Ann Sprent. Ethel was born in India, to English parents.

Sarah’s paternal grandmother was Mary Stuart Watson (the daughter of George Kelsey William Watson and Ruth Erskine Carson). Mary was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. George was born in Wingham, North Huron, Ontario, and was the son of William Watson, who was born in Inverness-shire, Scotland, and of Mary Jane Stewart, who was from Amsterdam, Montgomery, New York. Ruth was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of William Morris Carson and Louise Perry McCay. She was of Scots-Irish/Northern Irish and English descent.

Sources: Genealogies of Sarah’s paternal grandparents, Frank Cyril Rhodes Chalke and Mary Stuart Watson – https://www.wikitree.com