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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 comedy films like Harvard Man
(2001).

Early life

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 "Rhoda" Harper, Carol Kane and Jeff Daniels. At the audition Sarah 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 Gellar criticised McDonalds and claimed to only ever eat in Burger King. This led to a law suit 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 then had a small part in Chevy Chase's Funny Farm, and then filmed in Europe for the TV series Crossbow, based on William Tell which failed due to its similarity to Robin Of Sherwood.

Gellar then attended the Professional Children's School, where she fit in with other acting kids like 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 then had a significant role in the movie High Stakes where she played Karen the daughter Melanie Rose (Sally Kirkland), a prostitute involved with the Mob who falls for a police officer. 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.

Personal life

On September 1, 2002, Gellar and actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. were married in Jalisco, Mexico.

Career

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.

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