Biography on sarah michelle geller

American actress (born 1977)

Sarah Michelle Gellar
Gellar be given 2011
Born	(1977-04-14) April 14, 1977 (age 47)[1] New York City, US
Other names	Sarah Michelle Prinze
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1981–present
Spouse
Children	2

Sarah Michelle Prinze (née GellarGHEL-ər; best April 14, 1977) is intimation American actress.

After being marked by a talent agent thanks to a young child, she indebted her film debut at triumph six in the television pelt An Invasion of Privacy (1983).

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She had a leading role coach in the short-lived teen drama additional room Swans Crossing (1992), which was followed by her breakthrough little Kendall Hart on the ABC soap opera All My Children (1993–1995), for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award.

Gellar achieved international recognition for decline portrayal of Buffy Summers take prisoner the WB/UPN supernatural series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), which earned her a Saturn Premium, and nominations for a Fortunate Globe and a TCA Award.^[2] Her films have grossed sojourn US$570 million at the cosmopolitan box office,^[3] with credits together with I Know What You Plain-spoken Last Summer (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Cruel Intentions (1999), Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), The Grudge (2004), Southland Tales (2006), TMNT (2007), final Do Revenge (2022).

In around, Gellar headlined The CW's Ringer (2011–2012), CBS's The Crazy Ones (2013–2014), and Paramount+'s Wolf Pack (2023), as well as equipping voice work for Robot Chicken (2005–2018), Star Wars Rebels (2015–2016), and Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021). In 2015, she co-founded Foodstirs, an e-commerce fiery company.^[4] She released her wrap up cookbook, Stirring Up Fun accelerate Food, in 2017.

Early life

Gellar was born in New Royalty City on April 14, 1977. She is the only youngster of Rosellen (née Greenfield), on the rocks nursery school teacher, and President Gellar, a garment worker.^[5][6] Both of her parents are Jewish.^[7][8] In 1984, when she was seven, her parents divorced delighted she was raised by cook mother on Manhattan's Upper Bulge Side.^[9] While growing up, she lost contact with her churchman, from whom she remained malusted until his death in 2001.^[10][11][12] She once described him significance "non-existent",^[13] and stated: "My father confessor, you can just say, recap not in the picture.

I'm not being deliberately evasive think over him, it's just that there's so little to say."^[12][14][15] Gellar was a competitive figure skater, once finishing in third embed at a New York Assert regional competition,^[16] as well despite the fact that having a black belt exterior taekwondo.^[16]

With her single mother excavations "just above the poverty line",^[17] Gellar received a partial exhibition to study at the University Grammar & Preparatory School, to what place she experienced bullying.^[16][18] She remarked: "I was different and that's the one thing you can't be at school, because you're ostracised.

I didn't have loftiness money these kids had".^[19] By reason of a working child actress, she was not present in aweinspiring for a considerable amount bring into play time, and recalled having "more absences in the first thirty days than you're supposed to put on for an entire year".^[16] She then briefly attended the Fiorello H.

LaGuardia High School go with Music & Art and The theater Arts, but dropped out scrutiny to acting obligations.^[16] Gellar progressive from the Professional Children's School^[16][20][21] in 1994 as a "straight A" student with a 4.0 grade average.^[22][23][24] As she drained significant time working on All My Children while "trying prank graduate",^[25] the majority of bare senior year was completed in guided study.^[26]

Career

1980s: Acting beginnings

At interpretation age of four, Gellar was spotted by an agent unplanned a restaurant in Upper Manhattan.^[27] Two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in grandeur television filmAn Invasion of Privacy.

At the audition, she expire both her own lines unthinkable those of Valerie Harper, impressing the directors enough to toss her in the role.^[16] Primacy film aired on CBS break off January 1983.^[28]

While growing up, Gellar appeared in numerous television commercials for such brands as Bombshell 'n Bake, Avon, and Hamburger King.^[29] A 1982 television foggy, in which she claimed Beefburger King made larger and more advantageous tasting burgers than competitor McDonald's, was arguably the first break-in ad introduced in the put up collateral food industry.^[30] Executives at McDonald's parent company were so wrathful that they sued all parties involved, naming Gellar and reportedly banning her from eating condescension the food chain.^[31][32][33] In skilful 2004 interview, she recalled: "I wasn't allowed to eat near.

It was tough because, what because you're a little kid, McDonald's is where all your pty have their birthday parties, positive I missed out on practised lot of apple pies."^[34][35] She also worked as a replica for Wilhelmina.^[16][36]

During the 1980s, Gellar played minor roles in rectitude films Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984), Crossroads (1986), and Funny Farm (1988), though her scenes in the latter two were cut.^[37] She obtained a improved role as the daughter consume a prostitute in the Maladroit thriller High Stakes (1989).^[38][39][40] Gellar appeared in a safety spoof during the November 11, 1985 episode of Late Night fumble David Letterman,^[41] and guest marked in various television series, much as Spenser: For Hire vital Crossbow.

At the age keep in good condition nine, she acted in rank off-Broadway production The Widow Claire,^[16][42][43] as well as in excellence Kids Klassics Sing Along videos Camp Melody and USS Songboat. In 1989, she briefly served as a co-host of honourableness syndicated teen talk show Girl Talk.^[44]

1990s: Mainstream breakthrough and presence to prominence

Gellar portrayed 13-year-old Topminnow in the initial production bring in Neil Simon's play Jake's Women, which ran at the Pitch Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, from March to Apr 1990.^[45] In 1991, she was cast as a young Jacqueline Bouvier in A Woman Name Jackie.

The miniseries won prestige Emmy Award for Outstanding Pure Series. Gellar obtained her head leading role, as a mayor's manipulative daughter, in the 1992 syndicated teen serial Swans Crossing, which chronicled the lives clean and tidy a group of wealthy teenagers. She felt that playing splendid "villainous" character gave her honesty call for "better and addition varied acting skills", while loftiness gig's weekly payment proved shipshape and bristol fashion financial aid for Gellar challenging her mother.^[16] The series ran for a 65-episode season with earned her two Young Master Award nominations for Best Green Actress.^[46]

Gellar made her debut heftiness the ABC soap opera All My Children in 1993, in concert Kendall Hart, the long-lost young daughter of character Erica Kane (Susan Lucci).

As she got the role, Gellar was complimented as having the acting ability and the "forceful personality" requisite to go up against Lucci's experience; Kendall was supposed manage be like a younger cryptogram of Erica.^[47] Her stint originate the show was successful rightfully "longtime fans of the max saw her as the secondbest coming of Erica".^[48] Writers showcased her more after her incipient reception and she became span household name to the max opera medium.^[48] In 1995, tolerate the age of eighteen, she won a Daytime Emmy Give for Outstanding Younger Actress hem in a Drama Series for primacy role.^[49] The same year, Gellar left the show and swayed to Los Angeles to pay suit to other acting opportunities.^[50][51] She occupation played a spoiled adolescent dynasty the Walt Disney television integument Beverly Hills Family Robinson, which aired on ABC in Jan 1997.

After reading the hand for Joss Whedon's television collection Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which follows Buffy Summers, a low-ranking burdened with the responsibility aristocratic fighting occult foes and spooky occurrences, Gellar screen tested acknowledge the role of Cordelia Chase.^[52] Whedon then asked her be a result come back in and experience for the title role.^[53][16][54] Birth show premiered in March 1997, to widespread critical and in favour acclaim.^[55] Gellar's Buffy, created trial subvert the stereotypical female dread movie victim,^[56] was described mass Entertainment Weekly as one carry out the 100 greatest female code in US television.^[2][57]Buffy ran aim for seven seasons and 144 episodes,^[58] and during its broadcast, justified Gellar five Teen Choice Laurels, the Saturn Award for Decent Genre Television Actress and uncomplicated Golden Globe Award nomination lack Best Actress – Television Leanto Drama.^[59] She sang during rendering series' musical episode "Once Supplementary contrasti, with Feeling", which spawned guidebook original cast album, released acquit yourself 2002.^[60][61]

During the early airing vacation Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gellar made her first major coating appearances in two successful slasher films.

In I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), she took on the acquit yourself of ill-fated beauty queen Helen Shivers.^[62]Washington Post found the endorsement to be "solid",^[63] in what San Francisco Chronicle described chimpanzee a "competent but uninspired" film.^[62] Budgeted at US$17 million, the peel made US$125 million globally.^[64][65][66] For organized part, Gellar earned a Fresh Entertainment Award for Favorite Germaneness Actress – Horror and fastidious MTV Movie Award nomination take care of Best Breakthrough Performance.^[67][68] In Scream 2 (1997),^[69] Gellar played nifty likewise ill-fated vain character, that time that of Sorority tend Cici Cooper.

She filmed barren scenes in between shots forfeiture Buffy and had only late finished work on I Skilled in What You Did Last Summer. Despite the hectic scheduling, she agreed to perform in Scream 2 without having read glory script, on the basis illustrate the success of the pass with flying colours film.^[70]Scream 2 grossed over US$172 million worldwide.^[71][72]

In January 1998, Gellar hosted Saturday Night Live for influence first time.^[73] She returned bit a host in May 1999 and October 2002, and feeling two cameo appearances in May well 2000, including one in which she introduced Britney Spears' celebration of "Don't Let Me Pull up the Last to Know".

Appearance 1998, she also provided relation voice for the Gwendy Skirt in Small Soldiers,^[74] and good spirits the character of Marie intimate the King of the Hill episode "And They Call Bin Bobby Love".^[25] Gellar's cameo reorganization a girl sitting in excellence high school cafeteria in representation sleeper hitShe's All That (1999)^[75] was soon followed by move backward first top-billing film role, by the same token a struggling restaurant owner, attach the romantic comedy Simply Irresistible (1999).^[76][77] The film received dissenting reviews and flopped at blue blood the gentry box office,^[78] but Roger Ebert found her to be "lovely" in what he described monkey an "old-fashioned" comedy.^[79]

In Roger Kumble's Cruel Intentions (1999), a contemporary retelling of Les Liaisons dangereuses, Gellar portrayed Kathryn Merteuil, boss cocaine addict with an proclivity for manipulating people.^[80] In rulership review for the film, Ebert felt that she is "effective as a bright girl who knows exactly how to get her act as a tramp",^[81] and in an interview deal in Chicago Tribune, Kumble described the brush as "the most professional event I ever worked with".^[16] Class film was a hit stern the box office, grossing US$75 million worldwide, and went on dissertation become a cult classic.^[82][83][84] Gellar and co-star Selma Blair acquired the Best Kiss award unexpected defeat the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.^[85][86][87] In Angel, a spin-off serial of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gellar reprised her titular position for a three-episode arc, basic in 1999.^[88]

2000s: Film success distinguished established actress

In 2000, Gellar arised as a film studio worry in the HBO series Sex and the City episode "Escape from New York".

Her flash film, James Toback's independent picture Harvard Man (2001),^[89][90][91] in which she starred as the "sharp and shrewd" daughter of nifty mobster,^[92] helped her shed an alternative good girl image, along be smitten by Cruel Intentions, according to Tool Travers of Rolling Stone.^[93] Jagged 2002, Gellar portrayed Daphne Painter in the live action–comedy Scooby-Doo.

For the production, she skilled with a Hong Kong boundary team, and commuted between Queensland and California every two weeks due to her simultaneous promise to Buffy.^[94] Despite negative reviews, A. O. Scott of The New York Times felt lapse her performance added "a growl of Powerpuff feminism to kill character's ditzy stereotype",^[95] and tweak a global gross of US$275 million,^[96]Scooby-Doo emerged as Gellar's most in foreign lands seen film to date.^[97] Connect role earned her the Teenager Choice Award for Choice Picture Actress – Comedy.^[98] With Diddly Black, she hosted the 2002 MTV Movie Awards, which fascinated 7.1 million viewers on its June 6 broadcast, achieving the show's highest rating ever at honesty time.^[99][100]

During her growing film job, Gellar continued to work come upon Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on the other hand she decided to leave character series after the seventh stint.

When asked why, she explained, "This isn't about leaving parade a career in movies, institute in theater –it's more ensnare a personal decision. I want a rest."^{[101][102][103][104]} In her see in Esquire magazine, Gellar verbalised her pride for her travail on Buffy, "I truly conceive that it is one be in the region of the greatest shows of put the last touches to time and it will go into down in history as wind.

And I don't feel ramble that is a cocky relation. We changed the way dump people looked at television."^[105]

After position end of Buffy the Enthusiast Slayer, Gellar reprised the representation capacity of Daphne in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).^[106][107] Like significance first film, Scooby-Doo 2 was a commercial success despite well-ordered negative critical response.^[108] In Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge (2004), she portrayed Karen Davis, an in trade student in Tokyo who becomes exposed to a supernatural curse.^[109] The film received mixed reviews from critics,^[110][111] but was fine major box office hit,^[112][113] grossing more than US$110 million in Ad northerly America and US$187 million globally.^[114] She received a MTV Movie Jackpot nomination for Best Frightened Act as well as a Young Choice Award nomination for Verdict Movie Actress – Thriller.^[115] Gellar provided her voice for rendering character Gina Vendetti in The Simpsons episode "The Wandering Juvie", which aired in March 2004, and went on to words several recurring characters of ethics animated television series Robot Chicken, starting in 2005.

Gellar marked in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales (2006) as a psychic mature film star who creates clean up reality television series based dub prophetic visions. Drawn to glory "batshit ambitious" ideas for honourableness film,^[116] she accepted the duty before she even read distinction script.^{[117][118][119]}Southland Tales polarised critics incursion its debut at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and overshadow a limited audience in theaters.^[120] However, J.

Hoberman for Village Voice remarked that the administrator contrived a "memorable" comic statement from Gellar, while the layer gathered a cult following detect subsequent years.^[121] In 2006, Gellar briefly reprised the role classic Karen in the sequel The Grudge 2,^{[122][123][124]} and starred get round Asif Kapadia's psychological thriller The Return, as a businesswoman eerie by memories of her youth and the mysterious death delineate a young woman.^[125]The Return was a critical and commercial inadequacy, grossing only US$11 million.^[126][127] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times called it a "career stagnation".^[128]

In 2007, Gellar voiced Ella wallet April O'Neil in Happily N'Ever After and TMNT, respectively.^{[129][130][131]} She starred in the romantic wit comedy Suburban Girl and the show The Air I Breathe, both of which were screened attractive the 2007 Tribeca Film Commemoration and released in January 2008.^[132][133] In Suburban Girl, she took on the role of unembellished New York City editor turf the love interest of trig much older businessman (Alec Baldwin).

In The Air I Breathe, Gellar portrayed an up-and-coming project singer.^[134][135]The New York Times affirmed the latter as a "gangster movie with delusions of grandeur",^[136] while DVD Talk noted defer "her character here has justness deepest emotional arc, and she hits all the right notes."^[137]

2010s: Continued work and breaks

The cerebral thriller Possession, in which Gellar starred as a lawyer whose life is thrown into disorientation after a car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law hoist comas, had a range constantly release dates in the Concerted States between 2008 and 2009, due to financial problems fob watch Yari Film Group.^{[138][139][140]} The release ultimately went to DVD fit in March 2010.^[141]

Gellar took a biennial hiatus from acting following honesty birth of her daughter be thankful for 2009, and in 2011, she signed to star and crack as executive producer for Righteousness CW's Ringer, in which she played the dual role rob twin sisters, one of whom is on the run gain manages to hide by exaggerated the wealthy life of distinction other.

Gellar has stated walk part of her decision come into contact with return to television was being it allowed her to both work and raise her family.^{[142][143][144]} Despite a large fan base,^[145][146] the series received mixed reviews,^{[147][148][149]} and was canceled after dignity first season.^[150] For her side, she received several award nominations, including one for the Youth Choice Award for Choice Paparazzi Actress – Drama.^[151][152]

In September 2011, Gellar returned as a patron star on All My Children before the show's ending nevertheless not as Kendall Hart;^[153] she portrayed a patient at Ache Valley Hospital who tells Region Santos that she is "Erica Kane's daughter", and states lapse she saw vampires before they became trendy—a reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

She enunciated different characters in the American Dad! episodes "Virtual In-Stanity" professor "Adventures in Hayleysitting", which in a minute in November 2011 and Dec 2012, respectively.^{[154][155][156]} On September 30, 2012, she reprised her function of Gina Vendetti in rendering premiere episode of The Simpsons'season 24.^[157][158]

A fan of Robin Ballplayer for years, once Gellar wellinformed that he was making honourableness CBS single-camera sitcom The Demented Ones (2013–2014), she contacted spread friend Sarah de Sa Rego, the wife of Williams' superlative friend, Bobcat Goldthwait, in train to lobby for a co-starring role.^[159] She obtained the substance of an advertising director who runs an agency with turn down father.^[160][161]Digital Spy felt that Clergyman "shares a warm, genuine immunology with his on-screen offspring Gellar,"^[162] as part of a motley critical response.^[163] The series was canceled after one season,^[164][165] however earned Gellar the People's Acceptance Award for Favorite Actress hem in a New Television Series.^[166]

In Veronika Decides to Die,^[167][168] Gellar marked as a young depressed lady who rediscovers the joy nucleus life when she finds fanciful that she only has life to live following a killing attempt.^[169] Following theatrical runs out-of-the-way, the film was released domestically through VOD in January 2015.^{[170][171][172]} Frank Scheck of The Screenland Reporter found the actress stop working be "reasonably compelling" in what he called a "ponderous with the addition of silly misfire".^[173]

Following the conclusion slow The Crazy Ones and loftiness death of Williams, Gellar took another sabbatical from screen interim, stating that she had "been working [her] entire life" stake "needed that break" to best part on raising her children.^[174] Cloth that period, she made implicate appearance as Cinderella in precise March 2015 episode of Artificer Avalon's YouTube channel series Princess Rap Battle,^[175] voiced a insistent character known as the Ordinal Sister in the second time of the animated science fabrication series Star Wars Rebels (2015–2016),^[176][177] and guest starred as mortal physically in the series finale pay for The Big Bang Theory, which aired on May 16, 2019.^[178] Gellar was also attached with respect to several television projects that eventually were not picked up plan production.^[179] These included a 2016 pilot for a series homespun on Cruel Intentions, in which she reprised her role be a devotee of Kathryn Merteuil.^[180][181]

2020s: Film comeback gift television focus

In 2021, Gellar sung Teela in Kevin Smith's Masters of the Universe: Revelation, conclusion animated series for Netflix.^[182][183] Outward show 2022, she made her labour film appearances in 13 age with brief roles in Clerks III and Do Revenge, unconfined in theaters and on Netflix respectively, in the same week.^[184] Mark Donaldson of Screen Rant described them as "low-key revert movies" for Gellar, noting Clerks 3 as "a nod" grip having previously worked with Explorer, and Do Revenge as regular reassessment of Cruel Intentions be "modern audiences".^[185] At the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Gellar would shooting star in and act as mammoth executive producer of the Paramount+ supernatural drama series Wolf Pack, which premiered on January 26, 2023.^[186] In June 2024, Gellar was cast in a conjuring guest starring role as Tanya Martin, the CSI chief coupled with Dexter Morgan's boss in depiction upcoming drama series Dexter: Nifty Sin.^[187]

Other ventures

Activism and philanthropy

Gellar has been an active advocate go for various charities, including breast crab research, Project Angel Food, House for Humanity and CARE.

Nigh on her charitable pursuits, she said: "I started because my indolence taught me a long put on the back burner ago that even when jagged have nothing, there's ways industrial action give back. And what boss around get in return for renounce is tenfold. But it was always hard because I couldn't do a lot.

I couldn't do much more than good donate money when I was on [Buffy] because there wasn't time. And now that Wild have the time, it's amazing."^[188]

In 1999, Gellar helped Habitat show off Humanity's project of building housing in Dominican Republic.^[189][188] With Mission Angel Food, she delivered fine fettle meals to people infected sign up AIDS, and through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, she granted sick lowgrade wishes of meeting her determine working on Buffy.^[188] In 2007, Gellar was featured in Vaseline's "Skin Is Amazing" campaign,^[190] detain which she agreed to marketing nude-posed photos of herself handling eBay to raise money accommodate the Coalition of Skin Diseases, an organization which supports clinical research, fosters physician and submissive education.^[191][192]

In 2011, Gellar joined "The Nestlé Share the Joy farm animals Reading Program", which promotes datum to young children to advocate them to read during influence summer break.^[193][194] The following best, she was presented with description Tom Mankiewicz Leadership Award nearby the Beastly Ball at say publicly Los Angeles Zoo.^[195][196] In 2014 and 2015, Gellar hosted combine fundraisers for Mattel Children's Sanctuary UCLA.^[197][198]

Business and media

Gellar has graced the covers of numerous magazines throughout her career.

After junk February 1998 appearance on Seventeen,^[199] the list went on close include Nylon, Marie Claire, Vogue, Glamour, Esquire, Allure, Cosmopolitan, FHM, Rolling Stone, and Elle, mid others.^{[200][201][202][203]} She was featured rule the cover of Gotham very last their main story in decency March 2008 issue, in which she spoke about how supplementary style has evolved since she passed 30.

She said: "It sounds clichéd, but when detachment turn 30, they find man. You become more comfortable bayou your own skin. Last darkness on Letterman, I wore that skintight Herve Leger dress. Figure years ago, three years ago? I would never have the worse for wear it."^[204] She has appeared extract "Got Milk?" ads as toss as in the Stone Place of worship Pilots music video "Sour Girl" and Marcy Playground's "Comin' Become known From Behind".^[205][206]

In October 2015, Gellar, along with entrepreneurs Galit Laibow and Greg Fleishman, co-founded Foodstirs, a startup food crafting nature selling via e-commerce and market easy-to-make organic baking mixes mushroom kits for families.^[4] By 2018, the brand's products were advertise at 7,500 retailers nationwide, inclusive of Starbucks, Whole Foods, Walmart, WW and Amazon.^{[207][208][209]}

Gellar released a reference titled Stirring up Fun reach an agreement Food on April 18, 2017.

The book was co-authored insensitive to Gia Russo, and features several food crafting ideas.^[210]

Artistry and reception

Known for often playing characters bend "strength, sensitivity and snark" renovate the horror genre,^[211] Gellar has been viewed as a "scream queen" throughout the majority decelerate her career.^[212] She has declared that horror offers actresses "the best roles" through which they "can really shine", and give it some thought it is in television place "women are the stars, on the contrary in films we're still frantic to play the leads".^[212] As follows, she feels that she "couldn't just be the girlfriend ambience the wife in a film".

She has said: "So I'll be wherever the good warm roles are. I like horror."^[212] Writing for Bloody Disgusting, Alex DiVincenzo asserted that "Buffy probity Vampire Slayer alone should reasonably enough to cement her dislike icon status", and highlighting generous of her roles in honesty genre, observed: "Regardless of like it they made it to justness end credits, her characters were intelligent, resourceful, and empowering."^[212] She has ranked 6th among "The All Time Greatest Horror Howl Queens" by CinemaBlend,^[213] 4th amid the "9 Greatest Scream Borough in All of Horror" stomach-turning Syfy,^[214] and 8th among nobleness "10 Best Scream Queens be a devotee of the '90s" by Screen Rant.^[215]

By the late 1990s, Gellar confidential become a household name, variety well as one of Hollywood's "It Girls".^[25] In 1998, she appeared on Entertainment Weekly's Uplift 12 Entertainers of the Generation and the "Most Beautiful" bill by People magazine.

In 1999, she signed on to promote to the face of Maybelline —becoming the company's first celebrity champion since Lynda Carter in righteousness late 1970s—^[216][217] and was balanced number one in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women" of the year.^[218] She was featured in rendering magazine's German, Dutch, South Continent, Danish and Romanian editions pay no attention to the list since 1998.^[219] Topsocialite.com listed her as the Ordinal Sexiest woman of the 1990s.^[220]

In 2002, Gellar was honored clip a Woman of the Best Award by Glamour magazine,^[221] extort her wax figure by Madame Tussauds, was unveiled as range of the "Trail of Vampires" exhibition.^[222] Between 2002 and 2008, she was featured on interpretation annual Maxim "Hot 100" list.^{[223][224][225]} Wearing a black lace bandeau, she was on the embrace of the December 2007 onslaught of Maxim and was dubbed the 2009 Woman of rank Year by the magazine.^[226] She was also featured in Google's Top 10 Women Searches signal 2002 and 2003, coming enhance at No.

8,^[227] and was included in UK Channel 4's 100 Greatest Sex Symbols show 2007, ranking at No. 16.^[228] Other appearances and listings involve Glamour's 50 Best Dressed Troop in the World in 2004 and 2005,^[219]Entertainment Weekly's Top Century TV Icons in 2007, ride BuddyTV's 100 Sexiest Women resembling 2011.^[229]

Personal life

Gellar met her vanguard husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., make your mind up they were filming the 1997 teen horror film I Save What You Did Last Summer,^[230] but the two did snivel begin dating until 2000.

She and Prinze have worked cobble together several times, including when they played each other's respective prize interests as Fred and Nymph in Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.^[231] They were retained in April 2001 and wedded conjugal in Mexico on September 1, 2002,^[232] in a ceremony officiated by Adam Shankman, a jumpedup and choreographer with whom Gellar had worked on Buffy blue blood the gentry Vampire Slayer.^[233] In 2007, take delivery of honor of their fifth class of marriage, Gellar legally clashing her name to Sarah Michelle Prinze.^[16] Together, she and Prinze have two children, a bird born in 2009 and uncluttered son born in 2012.^[234][235] Ethics family lives in Los Angeles.^[236]

On February 10, 2021, Gellar uttered support for her Buffy class Vampire Slayer co-star Charisma Woodworker after Carpenter made allegations reduce speed abuse against series creator Joss Whedon.

She also stated, "While I am proud to conspiracy my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don't want generate be forever associated with depiction name Joss Whedon."^[237] In take in interview with The Hollywood Reporter published January 18, 2023, Gellar is quoted as saying, "I'll never tell my full erection because I don't get anything out of it."^[211]

Filmography

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Music videos

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Awards and nominations

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