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Freddie Prinze, Jr. & Sarah Michelle Gellar (Photo/wiki)
Sarah Michelle Gellar is a film and television actress. She became widely known with her role as the character Buffy Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Gellar's film work includes starring roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Cruel Intentions (1999); Scooby-Doo; (2002) the American remake of Japanese horror film The Grudge (2004) and The Return (2006). Gellar also played an ex-porn star in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales (2007) and was part of an ensemble cast in The Air I Breathe (2008). Gellar also stars in the films Possession and Veronika Decides to Die (2009).
Early on Sarah Michelle Gellar began acting. At the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Uptown Manhattan and two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in An Invasion Of Privacy, a made-for-television film starring Valerie Harper, Carol Kane and Jeff Daniels. At the audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper, impressing the directors enough to cast her in the role. She subsequently appeared in Burger King television commercial.
Gellar appeared in TV series such as Spenser: For Hire and Crossbow, and had minor roles in the films Funny Farm (1988) and High Stakes (1989). In 1991, she appeared as a young Jacqueline Bouvier in the TV movie A Woman Named Jackie.
Gellar's first major break was in 1992 when she starred in the serial Swans Crossing and was subsequently cast in the soap opera All My Children, playing Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane (Susan Lucci).
After Gellar left soap opera All My Children in 1995, she landed the lead in the 1997 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, mostly vampires.
Gellar has also hosted Saturday Night Live a total of three times (1998, 1999, and 2002), appearing in a number of comedy sketches. In 2000, Gellar guest appeared as Debbie in the HBO series Sex and the City episode "Escape from New York". Gellar has lent her voice to animated TV series, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and several episodes of Robot Chicken.
After Gellar's roles in the thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 (both 1997), she starred in the 1999 film Simply Irresistible, a romantic comedy. Cruel Intentions (1999).
More thrillers and sci-fi: Terminators, Knowing, Avator, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, X-Men and Twilight
Gellar appeared in the horror film The Grudge and its sequel The Grudge 2. Gellar then lent her voice to animated films. Other films she's appeared in are: Possession (2009), Veronika Decides to Die (2009),
Gellar will be returning to television in the HBO series The Wonderful Maladys.
In the meantime, married to Freddie Prinze, Jr., she and Freddie have had a baby. Gellar and Prinze's daughter is named Charlotte Grace Prinze, born on September 19, 2009.
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