Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography / Pictures

Biography

Sarah Michelle Gellar's major break was in 1992, in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing. From there, she moved on to another soap opera, All My Children, for which, in 1995, at the age of eighteen, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series.

Sarah Michelle Gellar left All My Children in 1995, and landed the lead in the highly successful Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The role made her a cult icon in the United States and elsewhere.

While continuing in that role, Sarah Michelle Gellar attempted to capitalize on her television fame in order to create a career for herself in motion pictures. She has had only indifferent success. After small roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, Gellar starred in the disastrous flop 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. Gellar's next film was the steamy Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She then went on a to a lead role in Harvard Man, a critical disaster that went straight to video.

Sarah finally found major box office success with Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series. Gellar has signed to make the sequel to the film, though critics blasted the first one.

During the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More, With Feeling," which spawned an original cast album, Gellar sang in several of the songs: "Going Through the Motions," "I've Got a Theory," "Walk Through the Fire," "Something to Sing About," and "Where Do We Go From Here?"

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

• Romantic Comedy (2004) (pre-production)... Kate Willous
• Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) (filming)... Daphne Blake
• Happily N'Ever After (2004)... (voice) Cinderella
• Scooby-Doo (2001)... Daphne Blake
• Harvard Man (2001)... Cindy Bandolini
• The It Girl (2001)
• Cruel Intentions (1999)... Kathryn Merteuil
• Simply Irresistible (1999)... Amanda Shelton
• She's All That (1999)... (uncredited) Girl in Cafeteria
• Hercules: Zero to Hero (1998)
• Small Soldiers (1998)... (voice) Gwendy Doll
• Scream 2 (1997)... Casey "Cici" Cooper
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)... Helen Shivers
• High Stakes (1989)... (as Sarah Gellar) Karen Rose
• Funny Farm (1988)... (uncredited) Elizabeth's student
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)... (uncredited) Phil's daughter

• Hercules'' (1998)... (voice) Andromeda
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)-(2003)
• Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997)... Jane Robinson
• All About Erika (1994)... (archive footage) Kendall Hart
• All My Children (1993)-(1995)... Kendall Hart #1
• Swan's Crossing (1992)... Sydney Orion Rutledge
• A Woman Named Jackie (1991)... teenage Jacqueline Bouvier
• Girl Talk (1989)
• Spenser: For Hire, episode: "Company Man" (#3.17) (1988)... Emily
• The Guiding Light (1986)... Flower Girl at Kurt and Mindy's Wedding
• An Invasion of Privacy (1983)... Jennifer Bianchi