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 Sarah Michelle Gellar Slay me please! |
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Sarah began her acting career at age 4 when she was discovered by an agent while eating in a local restaurant. Three weeks later she was on the set of her first film, An Invasion of Privacy. This chance discovery was to later boost her professional career which has lasted 17 of her 20 years of life. In addition to having been one of the two regular hostesses of the TV talk show, "Girl Talk," Sarah is a veteran of TV, film, and stage. She has appeared with Matthew Broderick and Eric Stoltz in "The Widow Claire" at the Circle in the Square, and had a feature film open in which she co-starred with Sally Kirkland and Robert Lupone. She has appeared on "Spenser: For Hire", "Love, Sidney", "The David Letterman Show" and "The Regis Philbin Show". She has done over 100 commercials and is a Wilhelmina Model. She has also appeared in " Crossbow" which she filmed in France and Switzerland. Sarah played Molly in the original cast of Neil Simon's "Jake's Women" and young Jacqueline Bouvier in the award winning NBC mini-series "A Woman Named Jackie". Sarah started to gain a small, but loyal, fanbase when she played the lead role of Sydney Rutledge in the teen soap opera, "Swans Crossing."
On February 24th 1993, Sarah Michelle began work on the set of All My Children. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1994 and, although she lost, she was nominated again in 1995 and won in the Younger Leading Actress category. Although she had given the producers 6 months notice of her decision to leave the show, she made her decision public the day after the Emmy win. After 2 years, Sarah left the set of AMC and moved to California to seek new fame in films or TV.
No stranger to television, the versatile actress won an Emmy Award in 1994 for her memorable role as Kendall Hart, the devious secret daughter of Erica Kane (Susan Lucci), on the daytime drama "All My Children." She played a younger Jackie Kennedy in the critically acclaimed mini-series "A Woman Named Jackie," and starred with Valerie Harper and Jeff Daniels in the television movie "An Invasion of Privacy." She was also a regular on the Syndicated show "Girl Talk."
In June, Sarah finished shooting I Know What You DidLast Summer, which stars her and Jenniffer Love Hewitt as teens that try to cover up a hit and run. It was released on October 17th and became number one that weekend, earning a profit in just two days. Shortly after filming Know What You Did Last Summer, Sarah flew down to Atlanta, GA to film Scream 2, which came out on December 12th.
Gellar's feature film credits include the Warner Bros. movie "Funny Farm," "Over the Brooklyn Bridge" and "High Stakes." She also performed in New York stage productions of "The Widow Claire" opposite Matthew Broderick at Circle in the Square, and "Jake's Women" at the Old Globe Theatre.
In 1996, Sarah was picked as the lead of a new series called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", based on the movie by the same name. Warner Brothers bought 13 episodes of the show, and although ratings of the pilot were the highest ever of any of the WB lineup, it ranked 100th out of 107 programs in the Nielson ratings. Warner Brothers renewed the show for another 22 episodes which began airing September 15th.
Starring in the title role of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Gellar plays a somewhat reluctant hero who fights off vampires at night while juggling the traumas of high school during the day. Fighting evil creatures requires adeptness in the martial arts, a challenge which Gellar has been devoted to before landing the role. Having studied the Korean art of Tae kwon Do for five years and earning a brown belt, Gellar spends her free time both on and off the set continuing her training with the series stunt coordinators.
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Beauty Incarnate: Sarah Michelle Gellar
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