Sarah Louise Christine Chalke born August 27 1976 is a Canadian actress and model She is best known for her roles as Kate Mularkey on Netflixs Firefly Lane Gabi in the movie Mothers Day Paula Crowe in Chaos Theory Dr Elliot Reid on the NBCABC sitcom Scrubs Gloria Macintosh in the movie Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and on the subsequent CBC series Muriel Jakes on Showtimes series Dead Mans Gun Annie on CTVs series Neon Rider and Second Becky Conner on Roseanne Shes had recurring roles as Merrill Morgan on Netflixs Friends from College Melanie Hertzal on ABCs sitcom Speechless Amy Gazanian on FOXs series Backstrom and Stella Zinman on CBSs sitcom How I Met Your Mother Shes also voiced a number of roles including The Professor on Disney Channels Haileys on It Stella on Netflixs Dogs in Space Gina Jabowski on Netflixs Paradise PD Beth Smith on adult swims Rick Morty and Magee in Prep Landing series of animated shorts In December 2006 she became engaged to Canadian lawyer Jamie Afifi after three years of dating In September 2022 she announced that they had called off the engagement and separated some time ago They have two children together a son born in December 2009 and a daughter born in May 2016 Her son was diagnosed at two years old with Kawasaki disease From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia