Sarah Michelle Gellar
Biography
Sarah
Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977 in New York. An only
child, she was raised on New York's Upper East Side by her mother,
Rosellen Gellar, a schoolteacher.
At the
age of four she was spotted by an agent whilst dining at a restaurant
with her mother. A week later, she found herself in a TV film called
An Invasion a Privacy, starring Valerie "Rhoda" Harper.
A few weeks after that she was cast in her first TV commercial.
The commercial was for Burger King in which she complained that
McDonalds served skimpy burgers. McDonalds sued her employers, thus
beginning the infamous "Battle of the Burgers." Since
that Burger King incident, Sarah appeared in more than one hundred
commercials over the years.
Sarah
went to Columbia Grammar School on 93rd Street (New York), across
Central Park from where she lived. When Sarah was just seven years
old her father divorced her mother. She will not discuss her father
publicly.
During
junior high school Sarah she says she went through an awkward phase.
"That was my time to feel that I didn't know where I fit in.
I tried to be jock. I tried to be cool. And I couldn't find my place."
As a
result of her acting success, Sarah felt isolated and was left out
of things by her fellow students. Life became a little easier though
when Sarah changed schools and started at New York's famous Professional
Children's School. She said that at that stage her acting helped
pay for her education.
At the
age of fourteen, Sarah won her first major role as the young Jacqueline
Bouvier in the NBC TV Mini Series, A Woman Named Jackie (1991).
From strength to strength, in 1992 Sarah won the lead role of Sydney
Rutledge in the syndicated teen soap opera Swan's Crossing.
She was
nominated for an Emmy in 1994, although didn't win the award. But
in 1995 she was nominated again and this time went home with the
Emmy award for Outstanding Younger Actress.
"At
15, my role required me to make out with Michael Nader, who was
50. I was playing older than I was. But I wasn't older and the best
thing I can say about those days is that it taught me to memorize
a 60 page script in two hours and to hit my technical mark without
blocking the other actor's light."
She finished
High School early, graduating from the Professional Children's School
two years early (when she was 15) with a 96.7 grade point average
[100 is perfect]. She said "I would have had a 97 average but
I got a B+ in trigonometry, which was my fault for taking it in
the ninth grade." Despite her acting success her mom made sure
that school came first "If I ever got below an A- on a report
card I had to stop working. That was why my studies always had to
come first. If I had a big test, that was more important than a
commercial or a job and at any point if I wanted to stop acting
that was going to be my decision. After I graduated from high school
I said I'd give myself two years to really focus on my career and
then if it wasn't going well I would go back to college full time."
In 1996,
Sarah Michelle Gellar was chosen to play the lead role in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer and it was this role that was to gain her such
enormous popularity.
Outside
of her acting career, Sarah has taken 5 years of Tae Kwon Do, currently
a brown belt, and has also studied boxing, kickboxing, street fighting,
and gymnastics. She was also a competitive figure skater for 3 years
and was ranked 3rd in the New York Sate regional competition.
Other
interests include Rollerblading, water skiing, and it is said that
she occasionally goes Cliff Diving and Scuba Diving. Of course she
also enjoys shopping.
Sarah
currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Freddie Prince
Jr.
Sarah Michelle Gellar Filmography
Alice (2006)
Untitled Marc Klein Project (2006)
Southland Tales (2006) .... Krysta Now
Happily N'Ever After (2005) (voice) .... Ella
Untitled Supernatural Thriller (2005) .... Joanna Mills
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) .... Daphne
The Grudge (2004) .... Karen Davis
... aka The Juon (Japan)
Scooby-Doo (2002) .... Daphne Blake
Jack Black: Spider-Man (2002) (TV) .... Mary Jane Watson
Lord of the Piercing (2002) (TV) .... Arwen
Harvard Man (2001) .... Cindy Bandolini
Cruel Intentions (1999) .... Kathryn Merteuil
Simply Irresistible (1999) .... Amanda Shelton
... aka Einfach unwiderstehlich (Germany)
She's All That (1999) (uncredited) .... Girl in Cafeteria
Small Soldiers (1998) (voice) .... Gwendy Doll
Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1998) (TV) .... Jane Robinson
Scream 2 (1997) .... Casey 'Cici' Cooper
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) .... Helen Shivers
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) TV Series .... Buffy
Summers
... aka Buffy
... aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Series
"All My Children" (1970) TV Series .... Kendall Hart Lang
Henry (aka Mrs. Michael Cambias) #1 (1993-1995)
... aka All My Children: The Summer of Seduction (USA: promotional
title)
"Swans Crossing" (1992) TV Series .... Sydney Orion Rutledge
"A Woman Named Jackie" (1991) (mini) TV Series .... Teenage
Jacqueline Bouvier
High Stakes (1989) (as Sarah Gellar) .... Karen Rose
... aka Melanie Rose
Funny Farm (1988) (uncredited) .... Elizabeth's Student
Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984) (uncredited) .... Phil's Daughter
... aka Across the Brooklyn Bridge
... aka My Darling Shiksa
An Invasion of Privacy (1983) (TV) .... Jennifer Bianchi |
