Sarah
Michelle Gellar plays Buffy Anne Summers. Sarah Michelle Gellar
was born in New York, on April 14th 1977. She was
raised by her mother, a schoolteacher, Rosellen Gellar.
While out
dining with her mother at the age of three and a half, she was
spotted by an agent and was immediately cast for an advert. At the
age of four she made her first advert, for Burger King telling
people that McDonalds burgers were skimpy. Due to this advert
McDonalds sued her employers. Luckily this exposure to the
unpleasant side of the entertainment industry did not put Sarah
off an acting career. At six, she landed her first role on TV:
playing Valerie Harper's daughter in the 1983 TV movie, “An
Invasion of Privacy”. Following this with parts in “Over the
Brooklyn Bridge” (1984), “Funny Farm” (1988) and “High
Stakes” (1989). She also appeared in a production of Horton
Foote's “The Widow Claire” along with Matthew Broderick and
Eric Stoltz. At the age of fourteen, Sarah won her first major
role as Jacqueline Bouvier in the NBC TV Series, “A Woman Named
Jackie” (1991). In 1992 she won the lead role of Sydney Rutledge
in the syndicated teen soap opera “Swan's crossing.” Then in 1993,
she got the part of Kendall Hart (Erica Kane's long-lost daughter)
on “All My Children.” She was nominated for an
Emmy in 1994, but sadly didn’t get it. She was again nominated
in 1995, this time getting the Emmy for Outstanding Younger
Actress. Soon after this award, Sarah left “All My Children”
and headed to California to star in a TV movie comedy, “Beverly
Hills Family Robinson.”
In 1996, Sarah was asked to audition for
the role of Cordelia Chase, for the soon to be hit TV series Buffy
The Vampire Slayer. However her initial reaction to this was
“No!” Due to the fact that she felt that Cordelia was very
similar to Kendall Hart, and she didn’t like the idea of being
another spoiled brat. Sarah told Xposé magazine, “I was afraid
to be typecast and turned it down. Then I thought about it and
there was something really interesting and different about
Cordelia. She wasn’t just going to be this simple foil character
for the leading actress, so I said ‘I’ll do it.’”
Ironically, just weeks after her audition, the producers found
themselves with no Buffy, so they asked Sarah to audition for it.
When they saw her take on the part, they felt that she was their
Buffy and so placed her in the leading role instead.
Sarah's movie
career started in earnest in 1997 with the two movies “I Know
What You Did Last Summer” and “Scream 2”. Over the summer of
1998 in the break between shooting seasons of Buffy, Sarah starred
in another two movies, “Cruel Intentions” and “Simply
Irresistible”, both released in 1999. Sarah has just recently
starred as Daphne in the cartoon turned movie 'Scooby Doo'
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