Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar | |
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Gellar in 2011 | |
| Born | April 14, 1977[1] New York City, U.S. |
| Other names | Sarah Michelle Prinze |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse |
Freddie Prinze Jr. (m. 2002) |
| Children | 2 |
Sarah Michelle Prinze (née Gellar /ˈɡɛlər/ GHEL-ər; born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. After being spotted by a talent agent as a young child, she made her film debut at age six in the television film An Invasion of Privacy (1983). She had her first leading role in the syndicated teen drama series Swans Crossing (1992), which was followed by her breakthrough as Kendall Hart on the ABC soap opera All My Children (1993–1995), for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award.
Gellar achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Buffy Summers on the WB/UPN supernatural series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), which earned her four Teen Choice Awards, a Saturn Award, and a nomination for a Golden Globe.[2] Her film credits include I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Cruel Intentions (1999), Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), The Grudge (2004), Southland Tales (2006), TMNT (2007), and Do Revenge (2022).[3]
On television, Gellar has starred in Ringer (2011–2012), The Crazy Ones (2013–2014), Wolf Pack (2023), and Dexter: Original Sin (2024–2025), and provided voice work for Robot Chicken (2005–2018), Star Wars Rebels (2015–2016), and Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021). In 2015, she co-founded Foodstirs, an e-commerce baking company.[4] Her cookbook, Stirring Up Fun with Food, was published in 2017.
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- ^ Booth, Barbara (February 28, 2017). "How Sarah Michelle Gellar intends to slay the $4.7 billion baking-mix industry". CNBC. Archived from the original on March 2, 2017. Retrieved March 4, 2017.