Which actor played Fred Jones in the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film?

Freddie Prinze Jr. played Fred Jones in the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film.

Prinze Jr. was part of the movie’s central ensemble, appearing with Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne Blake, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers, and Linda Cardellini as Velma Dinkley. The cast members portray recognizable versions of the animated characters while the film explores tensions within the group before they reunite to solve a mystery.

Fred is traditionally presented as Mystery, Inc.’s confident organizer and trap planner. The live-action movie preserves those broad traits, although its story gives the characters more personal conflict than the short-form television cartoons usually had. Scooby-Doo, created digitally, was voiced by Neil Fanning rather than played by a human performer.

The actor is sometimes confused with Lillard because both were prominent members of the same cast, and Lillard’s performance as Shaggy became especially associated with later Scooby-Doo projects. Prinze Jr. also returned as Fred in the 2004 sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.