Becoming ... Sarah Michelle Gellar

See how the star of The Grudge went from kid actor to scream queen. By Serena Kappes

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DYNAMIC DUO

Gellar and her mother, Rosellen, a former New York City nursery school teacher (in L.A. in September), have always been close. Her parents divorced when she was 7 and Gellar, who graduated from Manhattan's Children's Professional School in 1994, was estranged from her father, Arthur, for years, until his 2001 death.