Sarah Michelle Gellar is the actress who portrayed Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television series. Appearing in all 144 episodes of Buffy and five of Angel as the title character, she portrayed as well Faith Lehane, Buffybot, the First Evil, James Stanley and Buffy Summers (Wishverse).
Biography
After being found by an agent in a local restaurant in New York City, she had a role in the made-for-TV movie An Invasion of Privacy (1983) and went on to appear in shows like Spenser: For Hire. She originated the role of Kendall Hart on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, winning the 1995 Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series."
Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the hit television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the "Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress" and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
She found film critics praise for her performance in the teen drama Cruel Intentions (1999) and she subsequently appeared in the box office hits Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), and the American remake of Japanese horror film The Grudge (2004). Since then, she has starred in limited released and straight-to-video films such as 2006's Southland Tales, 2007's Suburban Girl and 2008's The Air I Breathe. In 2009, Gellar also starred in the film Veronika Decides to Die.
Gellar is featured as a playable character in the Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack Escalation (2011). She headlined the short-lived television series Ringer (2011–2012) and The Crazy Ones (2013–2014).
In October 2015, Gellar co-founded Foodstirs, a startup food crafting brand selling via e-commerce and retail easy to make organic baking mixes and kits for families. She released a cook book titled Stirring up Fun with Food in April 2017. On 2019, Gellar appeared in the series finale of The Big Bang Theory.
Appearances
Gellar appeared in all 144 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which makes her and Alyson Hannigan (Willow) the only two actors to appear in every episode. She acted as well in the unaired Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot and two original Buffy ad campaigns: Let 'Em Eat Stake (1997) and A Buffy Christmas (1998).
In addition to her title role as Buffy Summers, Gellar portrayed:
- James Stanley in "I Only Have Eyes for You";
- Buffy Summers (Wishverse) in "The Wish" and the archive footage in "Doppelgängland";
- Faith Lehane in "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You?";
- the Buffybot in "Intervention," "The Gift," "Bargaining, Part One," and "Bargaining, Part Two";
- and the First Evil in "Lessons," "Selfless," "Sleeper," "Never Leave Me," "Showtime," "Dirty Girls," "Empty Places," "Touched," "End of Days," and "Chosen."
In the spin-off series Angel, Gellar guest starred in two episodes, with additional three uncredited appearances:
- "City Of" (Only in archive footage)
- "The Bachelor Party" (Only in archive footage)
- "I Will Remember You"
- "Sanctuary"
- "Soul Purpose" (Only in archive footage)
External links
Sarah Michelle Gellar on Wikipedia
Sarah Michelle Gellar on IMDb