Buffy Summers

Sarah Michelle Gellar likes rollerblading, ice skating, water skiing, and sometime she goes cliff diving. She figure skated competitively 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 very active in physical fitness. Sarah is an only child. She attended high school at Professional Children's School in New York and graduated two years early with a 4.0. Sarah started her acting career when she was 4, 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". She was in a movie 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 been 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,(katie holmes was offered the part but turned it down) 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 and it is still going. Sarah was in 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.