Guide Note

Linda Cardellini is an American film and television actress who starred in the hit show Freaks and Geeks and in the films Scooby Doo and Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. She currently can be seen in the NBC drama ER.

Cardellini's other acting roles include Brokeback Mountain, The Unsaid, Legally Blonde, Strangeland, Dead Man on Campus, Good Burger and Comanche Moon.

Her next role will be in The Heaven Project, which is slated for release in 2008.

Fast Facts

1. Full Name: Linda Edna Cardellini
2. Birth Date: June 25, 1975
3. Birth Place: Redwood City, California
4. Graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in theatre
5. In 1994 she won a fireplace on The Price is Right
6. Provided the voice of Ursula in the 2003 role-playing game Gladius

Linda Cardellini dated her Freaks & Geeks co-star Jason Segel.

1. "It was terrifying. I accepted the job on Monday and started working on Wednesday. I didn’t really have enough time to be scared about it. But, you know, you hit the ground running, and if you can’t keep running—you’re out. So you have no choice but to run with it. It’s pretty amazing. You know, I knew about the dialogue being scary. But I had no idea how technical the actual job is. Physically you have to learn to do things and look like you’re doing procedures and look like you know what you’re doing at all times in a trauma room—where it is life and death. That takes a lot of learning." — Linda Cardellini on her role on ER
2. "The one thing that being on ER has changed is that I’m more recognizable because it’s the first time where I played someone where I look like her on the street. I could stand next to the poster for Scooby-Doo and nobody would know that it’s me." — Linda Cardellini on how ER has changed her
3. "Yeah, if it’s a great story definitely. Kids love it. I hear some 3 or 4 year old kids who can’t speak in complete sentences and they love to talk about Scooby-Doo. It’s fun. It’s really a great character. There’s not a lot of broad, young and smart, crazy, zany characters that you get to play like this." — Linda Cardellini on whether she would do a third Scooby Doo film