Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography
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Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977)
is an American actress, best known for her role in the television series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some of her most commercially successful films
have been horrors such as The Grudge (2004), but she has also acted in a
variety of other motion pictures, from family films such as Small
Soldiers (1998) and Scooby-Doo (2002) to thrillers like Harvard Man
(2001).
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Life and career
Gellar was born in New York City into a
Jewish family and has been acting since the age of four, when she did a
commercial for Burger King. Her best friend as a child was Melissa Joan
Hart, who later was the star of the television series Sabrina the
Teenage Witch.
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 Lang, 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 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon. The
role made her a cult icon in the United States and the UK.
Though many regarded her character as a
feminist icon, Gellar told Detour magazine: "I hate the word 'feminist.'
It has a bad connotation of women who don't shave their legs or under
their arms."
While continuing in that role, she
attempted to capitalize on her television fame in order to create a
career for herself in motion pictures. She has had only intermittent
success. After small roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did
Last Summer and Scream 2, Gellar 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. Gellar's next film was the steamy hit Cruel
Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 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 Harvard Man.
Gellar finally found box office success
playing Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon
series. The film was popular with audiences but universally panned by
critics. Gellar also appeared in the movie's sequel, Scooby-Doo 2:
Monsters Unleashed (2004).
The president of Gellar's own talent
agency, David Wirtschafter, admitted that her movie career was
floundering as of fall 2004, telling The New Yorker that the success of
her low-budget film 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." She has since
left that agency as a result of the remark. Whether The Grudge, a 2004
remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-on: The Grudge, has raised her
industry status remains to be seen.
Her next film project will be Southland
Tales, a film by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly.
On September 1, 2002, Gellar and teen-movie
actor Freddie Prinze Jr. were married in Mexico.
During the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
"Once More, With Feeling," which spawned an original cast album, Gellar
sang on 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?"
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