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Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977)
is an American actress perhaps best known for having played the title
role of Buffy Anne Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.
She starred in horror films such as The Grudge
(2004) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), in family films such as
Scooby-Doo (2002), and in indie films such as Harvard Man (2001).
Biography
Gellar was born in New York City, the only child of
Jewish American parents Arthur Gellar and Rosellen, a nursery school teacher. At
the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Uptown
Manhattan. Two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in An Invasion Of Privacy,
a TV movie starring Valerie Harper, Carol Kane and Jeff Daniels. At the
audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper's, which impressed
the directors enough to give her the role. A short while later, she got a part
in a controversial commercial for Burger King, in which she criticized McDonalds
and claimed to eat only at Burger King. This led to a lawsuit against Burger
King, ad agency J. Walter Thompson and Gellar herself, who appeared in court as
a witness for the defense. The dispute was settled out of court.
Gellar then continued to make commercials while
having small parts in TV. In 1984, her parents divorced and she was brought up
by her mother on the Upper East Side. She was estranged from her father, Arthur
Gellar, from this time until his death from liver cancer on October 9, 2001.
Gellar then attended New York's Columbia Grammar &
Preparatory School. The same year she had her third TV role as Emily in an
episode of the TV series Spenser: For Hire, starring Robert Urich. She had a
small part in Chevy Chase's Funny Farm, and filmed in Europe for the TV series
Crossbow, based on William Tell.
Gellar attended the Professional Children's School,
which was also attended by Tara Reid, Macaulay Culkin, Rebecca Gayheart, and
Jerry O'Connell, whom Gellar dated in 1988. Gellar held a straight-A average and
became a competent figure skater.
Her best friend was Melissa Joan Hart, who later
was the star of the series Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage
Witch.
Gellar had a role in the movie High Stakes opposite
Sally Kirkland. In 1991 she played a young Jacqueline Bouvier in A Woman Named
Jackie.
Career
Gellar's major break came in 1992, when she starred
in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing, after which she starred in the soap
opera All My Children, playing the conniving character Kendall Hart, the
long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). In 1995, at
the age of 18, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading
Actress in a Drama Series.
Gellar left All My Children in 1995 and landed the
lead in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, as a
teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes,
with the aid of a group of friends and her Watcher (a teacher of sorts). The
show was well received by critics and audiences alike, and, throughout its seven
seasons and a total of 144 episodes, Buffy, and Gellar along with her, became
cult icons in the United States and the UK.
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Gellar sang several of the songs during the Buffy
the Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", which spawned an
original cast album.
Gellar has appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan,
Glamour, FHM, Rolling Stone, and dozens more. She was in some Got milk? ads, and
is a model for Maybelline. She was featured on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2002,
2003, and 2005, and in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women of 2005. In 1998, she was named
one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People (in the World)."
With continued success on Buffy, she attempted to
capitalize on her television fame to create a career for herself in motion
pictures, with intermittent commercial success. After roles in the popular
thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 by Wes Craven, she
starred in the film Simply Irresistible. This film featured a magical crab and
borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate.
Her next film was Cruel Intentions, a modern-day
retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses; this movie included a lesbian kiss
between Gellar and Selma Blair. In 1999, she also appeared in the Stone Temple
Pilots music video Sour Girl.
She then played a lead role in James Toback's
critically unsuccessful Harvard Man (2001), followed by box office success as
Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series. Despite
being universally panned by critics, the movie was highly popular with
audiences, and she also appeared in the movie's sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters
Unleashed (2004).
In 2004, David Wirtschafter, the president of the
William Morris Agency, which represented Gellar, told The New Yorker that the
success of Gellar's low-budget film The Grudge (a remake of the Japanese horror
film Ju-on: The Grudge) "takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is
nothing at all, and . . . makes her a star, potentially. Suddenly, the Sarah
Michelle Gellar space is meaningful." The remark led Gellar to terminate her
association with the agency.
In 2005, Gellar starred in The Return with Peter
O'Brien and Sam Shepard and, the same year, made Southland Tales.
In 2006, she made The Air I Breathe with co-stars
Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, and Forest Whitaker in Mexico City.
She also reprised her role as Karen Davis in a cameo for The Grudge 2. She will
appear briefly in The Grudge 2, to pass the curse onto her sister in the film,
played by Amber Tamblyn.
Currently, Sarah is starring in A Girl's Guide to
Hunting And Fishing, based on the book of the same name, with co-star Alec
Baldwin.
Gellar is expected to start filming Alice, based on
the game from American McGee in 2006. Alice is expected to be released summer
2007.
She has a total of 8 movies in different stages of
production as of this moment.
Personal life
On September 1, 2002, Gellar and actor Freddie
Prinze, Jr.(who starred alongside her in the Scooby Doo films) were married in
Jalisco, Mexico. Adam Shankman, with whom Gellar had worked on Buffy, officiated
at the nondenominational wedding. The couple had met several years before, while
filming I Know What You Did Last Summer and were engaged in April 2001.
In 2004, while filming The Grudge in Japan, Gellar
visited a famous Japanese swordsmith Shoji Yoshihara (Kuniie III) and bought a
Samurai sword from him as a birthday present for her husband. Gellar realized
that she needed clearance from the government to remove it from the country, and
after eventually succeeding, she stated that it was "an incredibly difficult
feat" to do.
Gellar is sometimes thought to be an atheist, but
she has said in interviews that she believes in God, but doesn't belong to a
religion.
Filmography
Films
Year Film Role Status / Other notes
2007 Alice Alice Pre-production (see also American
McGee's Alice)
2006 The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing Jane
Rosenal Filming
2006 Happily N'Ever After Cinderella Animation ;
Complete
2006 The Grudge 2 Karen Davis Post-production
2006 The Air I Breathe Sorrow Post-production
2006 Southland Tales Krysta Now Complete
2006 The Return Joanna Mills Complete
2004 The Grudge Karen Davis
2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Daphne
Blake
2002 Scooby-Doo Daphne Blake
2001 Harvard Man Cindy Bandolini
1999 Cruel Intentions Kathryn Merteuil
1999 Simply Irresistible Amanda Shelton
1999 She's All That Girl in Cafeteria Bit part;
uncredited
1998 Small Soldiers Gwendy Doll Voice
1997 Scream 2 Casey "Cici" Cooper
1997 I Know What You Did Last Summer Helen
Shivers
1989 High Stakes Karen Rose Credited as "Sarah
Gellar"
1988 Funny Farm Elizabeth's student Bit part;
uncredited
1984 Over the Brooklyn Bridge Phil's daughter Bit
part; uncredited
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TV
movies
Year Film Role Status / Other notes
1998 Beverly Hills Family Robinson Jane Robinson
Filmed In 1996
1991 A Woman Named Jackie Teenage Jacqueline
Bouvier
1983 An Invasion Of Privacy Jennifer Bianchi
TV
series
Year Tv Show Role Status / Other notes
1997-2003 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Buffy Summers
1993-1995 All My Children Kendall Hart
1992 Swan's Crossing Sidney Orion Rutledge
TV
appearances
Year Show Role Status / Other notes
2001 Grosse Pointe Sarah Michelle Gellar Ep. # 1.16
2000 Angel Buffy Summers Ep. # 1.19
2000 Sex And The City Debbie Ep. # 3.13
1999 Angel Buffy Summers Ep. # 1.8
1988 Crossbow Sara Guidotti Ep. # 2.13
1988 Spenser : For Hire Emily Ep. # 3.17
1981 Love, Sidney Gail Hunnicutt
1980 Guiding Light Flower Girl at Kurt & Mindy's
Wedding
Voice
acting
Year Show Role Status / Other notes
2005 Robot Chicken Different Voices Ep. # 1.20
2005 Robot Chicken Different Voices Ep. # 1.17
2005 Robot Chicken Different Voices Ep. # 1.14
2005 Robot Chicken Different Voices Ep. # 1.4
2005 Robot Chicken Different Voices Ep. # 1.2
2004 The Simpsons Gina Vendetti Ep. # 15.16
2000 God, The Devil And Bob That Actress On That
Show Ep. # 1.10
1998 Hercules Andromeda Ep. # 1.30
1998 King Of The Hill Marie Ep. # 3.2
1998 Small Soldiers Gwendy Doll
Gellar has hosted Saturday Night Live three times,
and had an uncredited appearance once.
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