Name: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Birth Name: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Birthdate: April 14, 1977

Birthplace: New York City

The actress best known as Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV was a veteran by the time she reached drinking age. She got her start at age 4, landed a controversial Burger King commercial at 5 and continued in film and TV until her breakthrough role at 16 as Susan Lucci's daughter on All My Children made her an Emmy-winning star. By 22, she'd made more than 100 commercials, become a Wilhelmina model and the first Maybelline spokeswoman since Linda Carter in the '70s, firmly established her starring role in what was to be the long-running Buffy series and made several hugely popular movies, including Cruel Intentions, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2. In recent years, though she's kept a lower public profile, her films have remained successful; both Scooby Doo (2002) and The Grudge (2004) were blockbusters.


1. She initially auditioned for the role of Buffy's nemesis, Cordelia, but then read multiple times for Buffy and landed the lead.
2. Her parents divorced when she was about 7; growing up, she never had contact with her father, who died of unknown causes in his Manhattan apartment in 2001.
3. A bona fide athlete, Gellar was a competitive figure skater for three years, ranking third in New York regionals, and earned a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do. She also likes rollerblading, waterskiing and cliff-diving.
4. She has said she will never do nude scenes.
5. She's heavily involved in fundraising and charitable efforts for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.


"I prefer girl power to feminism, because girl power still has an ounce of femininity to it. There's no femininity in feminism, which is really weird, because it's technically the same word."
— Detour, February 1999


Husband: Freddie Prinze Jr., actor, born March 10, 1976; met on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997); married Sept. 1, 2002

2001: Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Buffy the Vampire Slayer

FILMS

Southland Tales - (2007) - Actor
TMNT - (2007) - Actor
Happily N'Ever After - (2007) - Voice
The Return - (2006) - Actor
The Grudge 2 - (2006) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Spike: Love Is Hell - (2005) - Actor
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed - (2004) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season Seven - (2004) - Actor
The Grudge - (2004) - Actor
Scooby-Doo - (2002) - Actor
Harvard Man - (2002) - Actor
Cruel Intentions/Cruel Intentions 2 - (2001) - Actor
Sex and the City: The Complete Third Season - (2000) - Featured
Cruel Intentions - (1999) - Actor
Simply Irresistible - (1999) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Chronicles Vol. 1: Bad Girls/ Consequences - (1999) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Chronicles Vol. 2: Enemies/ Earshot - (1999) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Chronicles Vol. 3: Graduation Day 1 & 2 - (1999) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Chronicles Box Set - (1999) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Buffy & Angel Chronicles Vol. 1: Surprise/ Innocence - (1998) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Buffy & Angel Chronicles Vol. 2: Passion/ I Only Have Eyes for You - (1998) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Buffy & Angel Chronicles Vol. 3: Becoming Pts. 1&2 - (1998) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Buffy & Angel Chronicles Gift Set - (1998) - Actor
Small Soldiers - (1998) - Voice
I Know What You Did Last Summer - (1997) - Actor
Scream 2 - (1997) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Welcome to the Hellmouth/ The Harvest - (1997) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Witch/ Never Kill A Boy On The First Date - (1997) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Angel/ The Puppet Show - (1997) - Actor
Beverly Hills Family Robinson - (1997) - Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season One - (1997) - Actor
High Stakes - (1989) - Actor