Sarah Michelle Gellar...Starring Buffy.
goes cliff diving. She was a competitive figure skater for 3 years and was
ranked 3rd in the New York Sate regional competition. She has taken 5 years of
Tae Kwon Do and is active in physical fitness. Sarah is an only child and
considers herself a workaholic. She attended high school at Professional Children's
School in New York and graduated two years early with a 4.0.
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 18 of her 21 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 costarred
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.
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 will begin
airing September 15th. In June, Sarah finished shooting I Know What You Did
Last Summer, which stars her and Jennifer 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 I
Know What You Did Last Summer, Sarah flew down to Atlanta, GA to film Scream 2,
which had the largest December opening of a film and made more money
in it's first weekend than the other top 9 films combined.
