Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography

Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) was the leading actress in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was born in New York City into a Jewish family and has been acting since the age of 4, 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.

Gellar's next film was the steamy hit Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 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 appears in the movie's sequel.

The president of Gellar's own talent agency, David Wirtschafter, admitted that her movie career as 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, has raised her industry status remains to be seen.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Michelle_Gellar

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