Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Image:Sarah Michelle Gellar.jpg Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress, best known for playing the title role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some of her most commercially successful films have been horror films such as The Grudge (2004) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), but she has also acted in a variety of other genres, from family films like Scooby-Doo (2002) to indie films like Harvard Man (2001).

1 Biography
2 Filmography
3 External links

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Biography

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Early life

Image:Picture 305.jpg Gellar was born in New York City to Jewish American parents Arthur Gellar and Rosellen, a nursery school teacher. At the age of 4 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 that of Harper, which impressed the director's enough to give her the role. A short while later she got a part in a controversial commercial for Burger King in which she criticised McDonalds and claimed to only ever eat in 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 a considerable income from 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. Gellar then attended one New York's top schools, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, where she was bullied. 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 which failed due to its similarity to Robin Of Sherwood.

Gellar attended the Professional Children's School, which was also attended by Tara Reid, Macauley 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 television series Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

Gellar had a significant role in the movie High Stakes opposite Sally Kirkland. In 1991 she played a young Jacqueline Bouvier in A Woman Named Jackie.

Gellar has refused to acknowledge any relationship with her father, commenting "Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father". Arthur Gellar died of liver cancer on October 9, 2001.

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Career

Image:Buffy Slayer.jpg Gellar's major break came in 1992 in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing. From there, she moved on to the long-running soap opera All My Children, where she played 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 very well received by critics and audiences alike, and throughout its seven seasons, Buffy, and Gellar along with her, became cult icons in the United States and the UK.

Gellar also sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More, with Feeling," which spawned an original cast album.

While continuing in that role, she attempted to capitalize on her television fame in order 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, rumored to be the last film ever watched by critic Gene Siskel, featured a magical crab and borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate. Her next film was the steamy hit Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses; this movie gained much exposure due to a famous girl on girl kissing scene between Gellar and Selma Blair. Also in 1999, she made an appearance in the Stone Temple Pilots music video Sour Girl.

She then went on to play a lead role in the critically unsuccessful Harvard Man in 2001 by James Toback, but found great box office success playing 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). Image:12 thegrudge.jpg The year of 2004 was marked by a point of controversy in Gellar's career, as the president of the talent agency representing Gellar, David Wirtschafter, told the 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 it makes her a star, potentially. Suddenly, the Sarah Michelle Gellar space is meaningful." The remark led to Gellar abandoning the agency.

In January 2005 Gellar signed for the movie The Return which she started filming in March of that same year starring Peter O'Brien and Sam Shepard. Gellar finished filming The Return in July 2005 and started filming Southland Tales, a film by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly in August 2005. She finished filming Southland Tales in October 2005.

In late January 2006, she began filming The Air I Breathe with co-stars Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker in Mexico City. Sarah wrapped production for The Air I Breathe in late March 2006.

She will also be reprising her role as Karen Davis in a cameo for The Grudge 2, which she filmed after The Air I Breathe in March-April 2006. She will appear briefly in The Grudge 2 only to pass the curse onto her sister in the film, played by Amber Tamblyn.

Shooting for A Girl's Guide to Hunting And Fishing, based on the book of the same name and co-starring Alec Baldwin will start in May 2006.

Both The Return and Southland Tales are expected to be released this year with her other animated movie Happily N'Ever After starring Prinze and Sigourney Weaver, which release date has been delayed as of 2006. The Grudge 2 will be released October 13, 2006. The The Air I Breathe is expected to be released in December of 2006.

Gellar is expected to start filming Alice based on the game from American McGee this summer now that the script is complete and the budget has been set, between $40-$60 million, Alice is expected to be released summer 2007.

She has a total of 8 movies yet to be released.

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Personal life

She once dated David Boreanaz who played the love of Buffy Summer's life in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

On September 1, 2002, Gellar and actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. were married in Jalisco, Mexico. Adam Shankman, who Gellar had worked with on Buffy, officiated the nondenominational wedding.

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Filmography

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Films

Year	Film	Role	Status / Other notes
2007	Quantum Quest : A Cassiny Space Odyssey	Ranger	Animation ; Post-Production
2007	Alice	Alice	Pre-production (see also American McGee's Alice)
2006	A Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing	Jane Rosenal	Pre-production
2006	The Grudge 2	Karen Davis	Filming / Sarah Finished Her Scenes.
2006	The Air I Breathe	Sorrow	Post-production
2006	Southland Tales	Krysta Now	Post-production
2006	The Return	Joanna Mills	Complete
2006	Happily N'Ever After	Cinderella	Animation ; 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

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TV series

Year	Tv Show	Role
1997-2003	Buffy The Vampire Slayer	Buffy Summers
1993-1995	All My Children	Kendall Hart
1992	Swan's Crossing	Sidney Orion Rutledge

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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

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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)Robotic Doll (Small Soldiers)