Sarah Michelle Gellar

• Birth Name

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  

• Birth Date

  04/14/1977

• Birthplace

  New York, New York

• Credits

  16 Movies, 7 TV appearances, 4 awards
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• Family

  Father: Arthur Gellar
  

  Jewish; born c. 1941; divorced from Gellar's mother c. 1984; found dead in his apartment on October 9, 2001

  Mother: Rosellen
  divorced from Gellar's father c. 1984

• Notes

  "I was thinking to myself: 'I can't do this....I can't do it.' I was worried about it the night before, wondering if I'd ever be able to go ahead. It was no better on the day itself."

  "As for the scene being sexy, I was so nervous I thought I was going to throw up! We had to film in the open in New York's Central Park and it seemed that half the city was watching."---Gellar on her kiss with Selma Blair in "Cruel Intentions" Now Magazine January 2004
  "It was always a financial struggle," she recalls. "A private education in New York is one of the best you can get in the world, but we were barely able to make rent payments on our apartment. I'm not going to pretend it was easy at school either. There were a lot of rich kids who made my life hell. They soon got to know that I was there on a

  part scholarship and could hardly afford to make up the fees. They constantl

  

  y reminded me of the fact, too, so I've always thought of high school as being a breeding ground for evil. It made me more determined than ever to make something of my life."---Gellar on growing up with no money and financing her own education with TV commercials Now Magazine January 2004
  "What Sarah bring to the part is her intelligence. At the same time, she's got that hormonal, idiosyncratic goofiness that makes Buffy not just the Terminator." --series creator Joss Whedon quoted in TV GUIDE, August 2, 1997
  "You know that when you hire her to do a job she's not going to be in the trailer, complaining about everything. She's going to be right out there at three in the morning, barefoot, in the freezing cold, giving you the 10th take." --screenwriter Kevin Williamson quoted in TV GUIDE, August 2, 1997
  In the 1999 online voting for the initial presentation of the TV GUIDE Awards, Gellar was cited for Best Woman's Hair-Do and as both the Sexiest Female and Best-Dressed Female.
  

• Milestones

  (1981) Began career in commercials for Burger King at age four (date approximate)
  (1986) Co-starred opposite Matthew Broderick (and later Eric Stoltz) in Horton

  

  Foote's play "The Widow Claire"
  (1999) Co-starred with Ryan Phillippe in "Cruel Intentions", a contemporary version of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
  (1997) Had first screen lead in "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
  (1992) Had regular role on syndicated serial "Swan's Crossing"
  (1984) Had small role in feature film "Over the Brooklyn Bridge"
  (2003) Left the cult classic series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to pursue a full time film career
  (2004) Once again played Daphne in "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed"
  (2002) Played Daphne in the live-action version of "Scooby Doo"
  (1993-1996) Played Kendall Hart on "All My Children" (ABC); won Daytime Emmy
  (1997) Played supporting role as a sorority sister in "Scream 2"
  (1991) Played the young Jacqueline Bouvier in "A Woman Named Jackie" (NBC)
  Set to star in an arthouse film based on the stories from Melissa Bank's book, "A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing" (lensed 2005)
  (2001) Starred in "Harvard Man", directed by James Toback
  (2006) Starred in "The Grudge 2" a sequel to the 2004 American horror film remake; again directed by Takashi Shimizu
  (2004) Starred in Takashi Shimizu's thriller "The Grudge"
  (1983) TV acting debut in the CBS TV-movie "An Invasion of Privacy"
  (1992) Was in pre-Broadway cast of Neil Simon's "Jake's Women"
  Will co-star with Seann William Scott in Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales" (lensed 2005)
  (1997-2003) Starred in title role of the series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The WB, 1997-2001; UPN, 2001-2003)