Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography And Filmography:

A short, gorgeous actress who went from portraying the daughter Erica Kane born after being raped on the soap opera "All My Children", to playing "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997-2001), Sarah Michelle Gellar had won a Daytime Emmy Award for "All My Children" before she was old enough to drink. Performing since age four, Sarah Michelle Gellar made her professional introduction as Valerie Harper's daughter in the 1983 television movie "An Invasion of Privacy". The following year, the actress could be seen in a bit role in the movie "Over the Brooklyn Bridge". Gellar then appeared in the feature film "High Stakes" (1989). During the early 1990's, she appeared in the Broadway productions of Neil Simon's "Jake's Woman", and the Off-Broadway production of "The Widow Claire".

Gellar's television career also heated up in the 1990's. She played the young Jacqueline Bouvier in the miniseries "A Woman Named Jackie" (1991), and was one of the young teens in a tiny affluent suburb on the soap opera "Swan's Crossing" (1992). For two years (1993-1995), Gellar portrayed the underhanded Kendall Hart on "All My Children". Her character was intended to be the girl born to Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) after a teen rape, who comes back to town resolute to make Erica pay for having given her up for adoption at birth. Gellar was nominated for an Emmy Award, but not to long after winning in 1995, announced she was leaving the show. Rumors flew about Sarah and her relationship with the veteran Susan Lucci. 

Moving to California, Gellar accepted the role of Dyan Cannon's daughter in the Disney television movie "Beverly Hills Family Robinson" (1997) about the host of a television cooking show who takes her family on a working vacation to a South Seas Island. Gellar next landed the starring role as Buffy in the smash hit "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997-2003), where at the young age of 16, Buffy is chosen to hunt vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness. After an ordeal at Hemery High, she ends up at Sunnydale High joined with Willow Rosenberg, Alexander "Xander" Harris, and with her watcher Giles, fights the challenges of High School and saves the world. 

Sarah Michelle Gellar then was hired and cast in a major role next to young stars Ryan Phillippe, future husband Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997) where four young teens are in great danger one year after their car hits a stranger whose body they dump in the sea. She then had a smaller roles as one of Neve Campbell's college friends in "Scream 2" (1997) with Courtney Cox, and then the romantic comedy "Simply Irresistible" about a department store executive who tries to resist falling in love with a young woman (Gellar). 

Sarah  was fantastic as a distressed teenage in "Cruel Intentions" (1997) with Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe. The actress next worked the big screen in "Harvard Man" (2001), about a sexy cheerleader and Mafia queen who seduces the lead character. Geller then teamed with Freddie Prinze to co-star in the popular family cartoon adventure "Scooby Doo" (2002). She also returned for the 2003 sequel "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed."

Continuing her attempt to break out as a leading star in large films, Gellar accepted a role in "The Grudge" (2004), a mysterious movie that cast her as an American nurse in Tokyo who is exposed to a deadly virus, one that sends a person into a powerful fit before taking their life and spreading to the next victim. With the success of the first "The Grudge" there was , of course, the necessary sequel "The Grudge 2" (2006) set in Tokyo about a young woman who is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister (Gellar). Sarah was starting to become a celebrity, and her next crime thriller paired her with top celebrity Kevin Bacon in "The Air I Breathe" (2007) a drama based on an the ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. 

Gellar then lightened things up a bit by lending her voice to the animated movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the continued adventures of the four adolescent mutated turtles gifted in the art of the ninja, as they attempt to stop a mysterious evil that threatens to end the world. Geller wrapped up the year with a starring role opposite Alec Baldwin in the romantic comedy "Suburban Girl" (2007), where a New York book editor finds her take on the game of romance changes after she lures the attention of an influential older man. Sarah stared off the following year with the romantic thriller "Possession" (2008) where a woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas - when the brother-in-law wakes up he thinks he's his brother. 

Sarah Michelle Gellar then got her breakout role that would forever put her name on the map in the animated sci-fi adventure "Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey" (2008) with other famous voices that include John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Slater. "Quantum Quest" takes place in an atomic world, where the forces of the Core and the forces of the Void battle for the fate of the universe. She then switched gears for the somewhat disturbing drama "Veronika Decides to Die", about a woman who wakes up in a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt and discovers that she has a weakened heart and only days to live. The film follows her recovery as she finds true love and a newfound will to survive. Sarah wrapped the year with the fantasy thriller "Alice" (2009) where years after her first experience in Wonderland, Alice is now a disturbed young woman mourning the death of her parents and returns to the land of talking animals and the wicked Queen of Hearts.