Biography
- 1990
Soap Star Beginnings
With numerous commercials and TV spots under her belt, Gellar plays Susan Lucci's evil daughter on All My Children. At 17, the newcomer wins a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actress. "I was on All My Children while trying to graduate from high school," Gellar later says of her life as a teen soap star.
- 1997
Buffy's First Bite
Gellar debuts in her breakout role as Buffy Summers, a suburban teen who battles the undead in the WB's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The supernatural show strikes a cord with audiences, making Gellar a household name. "Buffy's a total individual. She proves you don't have to fit in," she tells Teen. "You can be different and still find happiness."
Scream Queen
Away from the tube, Gellar appears in consecutive teen horror hits Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer, with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. The following year, she cements her "It" girl status with her first appearance on PEOPLE's 'Most Beautiful' list.
- 2000
Most Valuable Slayer
Gellar lands the cover of Rolling Stone, which calls Buffy one of "the coolest [shows] on television." "You can identify with so many of the characters [and] really take an interest in what's happening to each and every one of them," she tells the magazine.
- 2002
Falling For Freddie
Three years after meeting on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. begin dating. "We are each other's best friend," Gellar tells PEOPLE. "He is my first love." Weathering an earthquake and nearby hurricane, the two teen idols tie the knot in Mexico that year.
- 2004
Return to Horror
After teaming with her hubby for two Scooby-Doo flicks, Gellar returns to her scream-queen roots in the thriller The Grudge. "[Horror] is the field where women can really rule," she tells PEOPLE. "I'm not the girlfriend. I'm not the wife. This is where women can take a hold of a movie and have a proactive job." The film is a surprise hit, pulling in $71.3 million in two weeks.
- 2009
Saving Grace
Gellar and Prinze welcome their first child, daughter Charlotte Grace. "The minute I looked in her eyes, I thought, 'Nothing in the world is ever going to hurt'," Prinze tells PEOPLE. Gellar, who's making her TV comeback in HBO's The Wonderful Maladays, adds, "Every day I look at her and I am in awe."
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BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Anne Limongello/ABC; Everett; Everett; Rolling Stone; OK! Magazine and HELLO Magazine; Everett; WENN
- Name
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Date of Birth
- April 14, 1977
- Birth Place
- New York, N.Y.
- Relationships
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Freddie Prinze Jr., husband (2000 to present)
Jerry O'Connell (dated briefly in 1999)
- Children
- Charlotte Grace Prinze, daughter (9/19/09)
