46 Facts About Sarah Michelle Gellar

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On television, Sarah Michelle Gellar has headlined the CW's Ringer, CBS's The Crazy Ones, and Paramount+'s Wolf Pack.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar has provided her voice for Adult Swim's Robot Chicken and Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revelation.

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In 2015, Sarah Michelle Gellar co-founded Foodstirs, an e-commerce startup selling baking kits, and in 2017, she released her own cookbook, Stirring Up Fun with Food.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar was born in Long Island, New York on April 14,1977.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar is the only child of Rosellen, a nursery school teacher, and Arthur Gellar, a garment worker.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar graduated from the Professional Children's School in 1994 as a "straight A" student with a 4.0 grade average.

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At the age of four, Sarah Michelle Gellar was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Upper Manhattan.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar obtained a larger role as the daughter of a prostitute in the B thriller High Stakes.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared in a safety skit during the November 11,1985 episode of Late Night with David Letterman, and guest starred in various television series, such as Spenser: For Hire and Crossbow.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar portrayed 13-year-old Mollie in the initial production of Neil Simon's play Jake's Women, which ran at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, from March to April 1990.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar obtained her first leading role, as a mayor's manipulative daughter, in the 1992 syndicated teen serial Swans Crossing, which chronicled the lives of a group of wealthy teenagers.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar felt that playing a "villainous" character gave her the call for "better and more varied acting skills", while the gig's weekly paycheque proved a financial aid for Gellar and her mother.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar made her debut on the ABC soap opera All My Children in 1993, playing Kendall Hart, the long-lost teenage daughter of character Erica Kane.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar next played a spoiled adolescent in the Walt Disney television film Beverly Hills Family Robinson, which aired on ABC in January 1997.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy, created to subvert the stereotypical female horror movie victim, was described by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 100 greatest female characters in US television.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar sang during the series' musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", which spawned an original cast album, released in 2002.

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In Scream 2, Sarah Michelle Gellar played a likewise ill-fated vain character, this time that of Sorority sister Cici Cooper.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar filmed her scenes in between shots of Buffy and had only recently finished work on I Know What You Did Last Summer.

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In January 1998, Sarah Michelle Gellar hosted for the first time Saturday Night Live.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar returned as a host in May 1999 and October 2002, and made two cameo appearances in May 2000, including one in which she introduced Britney Spears' performance of "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know".

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In Roger Kumble's Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons dangereuses, Sarah Michelle Gellar portrayed Kathryn Merteuil, a brunette cocaine addict with an appetite for manipulating people.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar provided her voice for the character Gina Vendetti in The Simpsons episode "The Wandering Juvie", which aired in March 2004, and went on to voice several recurring characters of the animated television series Robot Chicken, starting in 2005.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar starred in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales as a psychic adult film star who creates a reality television series based on prophetic visions.

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In 2006, Sarah Michelle Gellar briefly reprised the role of Karen in the sequel The Grudge 2, and starred in Asif Kapadia's psychological thriller The Return, as a businesswoman haunted by memories of her childhood and the mysterious death of a young woman.

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In 2007, Sarah Michelle Gellar voiced Ella and April O'Neil in Happily N'Ever After and TMNT, respectively.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar starred in the romantic comedy Suburban Girl and the drama The Air I Breathe, both of which were screened at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and released in January 2008.

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The psychological thriller Possession, in which Sarah Michelle Gellar starred as a lawyer whose life is thrown into chaos after a car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas, had a range of release dates in the United States between 2008 and 2009, due to financial problems at Yari Film Group.

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In Veronika Decides to Die, Sarah Michelle Gellar starred as a young depressed woman who rediscovers the joy in life when she finds out that she only has days to live following a suicide attempt.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar took a two-year hiatus from acting following the birth of her daughter in 2009, and in 2011, she signed to star and work as executive producer for The CW's Ringer, in which she played the dual role of twin sisters, one of whom is on the run and manages to hide by assuming the wealthy life of the other.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar has stated that part of her decision to return to television was because it allowed her to both work and raise her family.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar obtained the part of an advertising director who runs an agency with her father.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar was attached to several television projects that ultimately were not picked up for production.

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In 2021, Sarah Michelle Gellar voiced Teela in Kevin Smith's Masters of the Universe: Revelation, an animated series for Netflix.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar was featured in the magazine's German, Dutch, South African, Danish and Romanian editions of the list since 1998.

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In 2002, Sarah Michelle Gellar was honored with a Woman of the Year Award by Glamour magazine, and her wax figure by Madame Tussauds, was unveiled as part of the "Trail of Vampires" exhibition.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar has graced the covers of numerous magazines throughout her career.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar was featured on the cover of Gotham and their main story in the March 2008 issue, in which she spoke about how her style has evolved since she passed 30.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar has been an active advocate for various charities, including breast cancer research, Project Angel Food, Habitat for Humanity and CARE.

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In 1999, Sarah Michelle Gellar helped Habitat for Humanity's project of building homes in Dominican Republic.

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In 2007, Sarah Michelle Gellar was featured in Vaseline's "Skin Is Amazing" campaign, in which she agreed to auction nude-posed photos of herself on eBay to raise money for the Coalition of Skin Diseases, an organization which supports clinical research, fosters physician and patient education.

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In 2011, Sarah Michelle Gellar joined "The Nestle Share the Joy of Reading Program", which promotes reading to young children to encourage them to read during the summer break.

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In 2014 and 2015, Sarah Michelle Gellar hosted two fundraisers for Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar released a cookbook titled Stirring up Fun with Food on April 18,2017.

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Prinze and Sarah Michelle Gellar have worked together several times, including when they played each other's respective love interests as Fred and Daphne in Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

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Together, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Prinze have two children, a daughter born in 2009 and a son born in 2012.

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On February 10,2021, Sarah Michelle Gellar expressed support for her Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Charisma Carpenter after Carpenter made allegations of abuse against series creator Joss Whedon.