Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar has been married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr. since 2002. They have two children, Charlotte Grace Prinze and Rocky James Prinze.

Gellar was born in New York City and is the daughter of Rosellen Greenfield and Arthur Gellar. She has Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish ancestry.

Gellar began working in entertainment at age four after being discovered by an agent while eating at a restaurant. Her first film was the made-for-television movie An Invasion of Privacy in 1983. She subsequently appeared in Over the Brooklyn Bridge, Funny Farm, Spenser: For Hire, the miniseries A Woman Named Jackie, and the Broadway productions The Widow Claire and Jake's Women.

Her early television breakthrough came with the teen soap opera Swans Crossing. She then played Kendall Hart on All My Children from 1993 to 1995 and won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 1995.

In 1996, Gellar was cast in the title role of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which debuted as a television series in 1997. She played Buffy Summers, a teenager chosen to battle vampires, demons, and other supernatural forces in Sunnydale, California. The series ran for seven seasons and ended in 2003.

The show combined comedy, drama, horror, action, and teenage coming-of-age themes. Gellar performed alongside Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, Charisma Carpenter, and David Boreanaz. Buffy was supported by her friends, known as the Scooby Gang, and by her watcher, Rupert Giles. The series developed a devoted following, received 14 Emmy nominations, and influenced television through its emphasis on a strong female lead and feminist themes.

While appearing on Buffy, Gellar built a film career with the teen thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, both released in 1997. She later starred in Simply Irresistible and Cruel Intentions, in which she played Kathryn Merteuil. She portrayed Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and appeared in the horror films The Grudge and The Grudge 2. Her voice work includes Small Soldiers, Happily N'Ever After, and TMNT.

After Buffy, Gellar returned to regular television roles in Ringer, in which she played twin sisters, and The Crazy Ones, alongside Robin Williams and James Wolk. She also provided voices for Robot Chicken, Star Wars Rebels, and Masters of the Universe: Revelation, and appeared in Wolf Pack. In 2015, she cofounded Foodstirs, a company that sold kid-friendly baking mixes, and in 2017 she co-wrote the cookbook Stirring Up Fun with Food with Gia Russo.