Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977. Just by accident she was discovered at age four while she was eating at a fast-food restraunt. A woman came up to her to ask her if she wanted to be on TV and she agreed not really knowing what she was doing. The woman called Sarah’s mom and a week later Sarah was casted as Valerie Harper’s daughter in An Invasion of Privacy.

Then right after the movie Burger King came calling after Sarah to be their pitch kid in their commercials. She was told to say that Burger Kings product was much better than that of McDonald’s, which was never done before. In one of her commercials she stated “Do I look 20 percent smaller to you? I must to McDonald’s because their hamburgers are 20 percent smaller.” Due to that line from the commercial McDonald’s turned around and sued Burger King, the advertising company J. Walter Thompson, and Sarah at age five.

After the lawsuit was settled outside the court Sarah decided that she wanted to become a professional actress. As a child she would attend auditions to commercials that she mostly got which put a lot of stress on her because she was going to school, doing the commercials, ice skating, and doing Tae Kwon Do all at one time. So to make sure she had school as number one priority her mom told her that if she got any grades below an A- she had to quit acting.

Beginning in 1980, Sarah made the transition from commercials to television guest parts. She began by playing a flower girl on Guiding Light. Then she stared on an episode of the William Tell series, in an episode of Love Sydney, and in Robert Urich’s ABC series Spencer: For Hire. In 1989 Sarah was a co-host of the syndicated teen show Girl Talk, before co-starring in the teen soap opera Swan’s Crossing.

Then she took a break from television shows to star in the 1991 TV movie A Woman Named Jackie as the young Jackie Bouvier. She filmed it while in middle school and had to constantly lie to the school just to film it. But after everyone saw A Woman name Jackie they knew what she was up to.

Later, she managed to play small roles in the movies Over the Brooklyn Bridge, Funny Farm, and High Stakes. And then soon after that she played a role in Neil Simon’s Broadway play Jake’s Women and she also starred with Matthew Broderick in The Widow Clair.

But after all of those small parts she finally got her big break when she was casted as Kendall Hart on the soap opera All My Children at age 15. Sarah spoke on it by saying, ”All My Children was my first job when I started taking it seriously, when it became a career, and it was such an amazing job! I think I was a good character; I go with misunderstood. I locked my little sister in the crypt, burned by parents’ divorce papers, tried to seduce my step-father, and when he turned me down I slept with the stable boy, then cried rape and went to jail. It was a good first week.”

Sarah won a daytime Emmy award for her work on All My Children and then decided to leave the show after two years to pursue other work.

Sarah then moved to Los Angeles to search for work.

After eleven auditions and four tests, Sarah’s next big break came when she got the role on the WB series Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the lead character of Buffy Summers. She was excited that she had finally got a lead role and that she could integrate her knowledge of Tae Kwon Do into her work.

“Buffy is not the prettiest girl in her school, she’s not the most popular, she’s not the smartest. She makes mistakes; she makes good decisions and bad decisions. She’s dealing with real situations that we put on a fantasy level,” Sarah stated on her character of Buffy Summers.

Sarah also thinks that her character is a good role model as she stated, “My junior high school was like Buffy’s. I was kind of a nerd. I didn’t have many friends and I was an outcast. But I think Buffy is an amazing role model because the one thing that I was able to do at my high school was be an individual. The problem with most high schools is that they don’t stress individuality. Buffy shows girls it’s okay to be different.”

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is about a teenage girl who is the Slayer. She is the only one who is strong enough in the world to fight vampires and the forces of darkness. But while fighting vampires Buffy also has to choose teenage decisions.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer started production and was slated for a midseason debut on March 10, 1997 and right after the season started Sarah was offered to play a part in the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer that she accepted.

In I Know What You Did Last Summer Sarah played Helen. I Know What You Did Last Summer is about four teens that hit a man that is crossing a road and out of fear they hide the body. But then next year he comes back to kill them out of revenge.

Helen was a different character to play aside from that of Buffy because Helen was supposed to be venerable and Buffy isn’t.

Than after I Know What You Did Last Summer Sarah started the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The second season was rated better, became The WB’s #1 most watched show, and the show also was critically acclaimed by many critics.

Sarah also became interested in doing the movie Scream 2 for which she played Cici. In the film Sarah’s inevitable death scene was a huge shock to Buffy fans because they were so used to her fighting on the show and then to see her overpowered by a killer in a costume was kinda weird.

Sarah also stared in Simply Irresistible where she played a chef with a bad love life. Sarah stated that she thought it was a meaningless movie with no plot and she didn’t like it very much.

Sarah’s most recent film was Cruel Intentions where she played Katherine. Cruel Intentions is a modern take of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Sarah’s character in Cruel Intentions as Katherine was one of her personal favorites because of her depth and controversy.

Right now Sarah is still playing Buffy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in its fourth season and is living in Los Angeles with her dog Thor.