Table of Biography
Sarah Michelle Gellar is an actress and model from the United States. Sarah Michelle Gellar is famous for playing the role of Buffy Summers on the 1997 television series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
Early Life
Sarah Michelle Gellar was born in Long Island, New York, the United States on 14 April 1977. According to her birthdate, she is 46 years old under the zodiac sign Aries. Gellar holds an American nationality and follows the Christian religion.
Caption: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s childhood photo source: TheWikiFeed.
Regarding her family background, She is the only child of Arthur Gellar (Father) and Rosellen Gellar (Mother). Her father Arthur worked in the garment industry, and her mother Rosellen was a teacher.
Education
Speaking of her educational background, She attended the Birch Wathen Lenox School for her primary education before earning her diploma from the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts in 1995. She participated in competitive figure skating during her time in high school.
Career and Professional Life
Talking about her career, She was a child actress who debuted at the age of four. Her first film role was in the television movie “An Invasion of Privacy,” which also starred Carol Kane and Valerie Harper.
Further, She was cast in her first significant acting role in 1993. She played Kendall Hart in the soap opera “All My Children,” the long-lost child of one of the main characters. She also received a lot of praise for the part, which helped pave the way for a lucrative acting career. In 1995, she left the program.
In 1997, she was chosen to portray Buffy Summers, the main character, in the television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” She portrayed a young woman who was tasked with battling supernatural foes like vampires. The program had a great deal of success and ran for seven seasons.
She appeared in the slasher movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer” in 1997 alongside Ryan Phillippe, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Freddie Prinze Jr. It was about four friends who were being followed by a killer.
Caption: Sarah Michelle Gellar in the 2005 film ‘The Return’ source: The New York Times.
She and her future husband Freddie Prinze Jr. both starred in the 2002 horror comedy “Scooby-Doo.” The majority of the reviews for the film were negative, but it did very well at the box office. She played the same part again in the 2004 film “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.”
More about her career
She played the lead role as Karen Davis in the supernatural horror movie “The Grudge” in 2004. In the 2006 sequel, “The Grudge 2,” she played the same part once more.
She also has voiced several characters in a variety of movies and television shows, including “Robot Chicken” (2005–2012), “The Simpsons,” “American Dad,” and “King of the Hill.”
She made an appearance in the 2007 romantic comedy “Suburban Girl” alongside Alec Baldwin and Maggie Grace. The best-selling book The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank, from which the movie was adapted, contains two short stories.
Gellar currently stars as Sydney Roberts in the situational comedy “The Crazy Ones.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar – Net Worth 2024
Sarah Michelle Gellar has earned a huge amount of money through her hard work and brilliance.
Her estimated net worth is around $30 million in 2023. Moreover, Gellar also earns a lot of wealth through endorsements with different brands and companies. However, the name of the brands that Gellar has collaborated with is not mentioned.
Awards and Achievements
Gellar received an Emmy Award for Younger Actress in a Drama Series for her work on ‘All My Children’ in 1995. For her work in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” she won the Saturn Award for Best Television Actress in 1999.
Personal Life
Regarding her love life, Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. first became familiar while working on the 1997 teen horror movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, but they didn’t start dating until the year 2000. The pair tied the wedding knot on September 1, 2002, in Mexico.
Caption: Sarah Michelle Gellar with Freddie Prinze Jr. source: People.
In Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Prinze and Gellar played Fred and Daphne, respectively, who were each other’s respective love interests. In 2007, Gellar officially changed her name to Sarah Michelle Prinze in celebration of their fifth wedding anniversary.
Together they were blessed with a son who was born in 2012 and a daughter who was born in 2009.
Body Measurements
Sarah Michelle Gellar is very beautiful and attractive undoubtedly. She has an excellent height of 5 feet and 4 inches (1.64 m/164 cm) and weighs around 56 kg (124 lbs). She has a body dimension of 34-23-34 inches. In addition, Gellar has a brown pair of lovely eyes and blonde hair.
Sarah Michelle Gellar – Social Media
She is active on her Instagram account @sarahmgellar with 4.2 million followers. Moreover, she also has 615K followers on Twitter and 2 million followers on Facebook.