• Sarah Michelle Gellar is an actress who has appeared in a number of films and television shows including the soap opera All My Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Grudge and I Know What You Did Last Summer. She is married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr.

  People Magazine reported on April 9, 2009, that Gellar and Prinze are expecting their first child, due in the fall of 2009.People: Sarah Michelle Gellar & Freddie Prinze Jr... (April 9, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: April 14, 1977
  2. Birthplace: New York City, New York
  3. Jewish heritage
  4. Was a figure skater
  5. Began dating Freddie Prinze Jr. in 2000
  6. Married Prinze on September 1, 2002
  7. April 2009: Gellar's pregnancy with her first child was announced
  8. 2007: Featured in Vaseline's "Skin Is Amazing" campaign

• Early Career

  Gellar had small roles in a series of movies, but stood out while in the short-lived series Swans Crossing. The 17-year-old joined the soap opera All My Children to play the illegitimate, long-lost, and evil-to-the-core 23-year-old daughter of Erica Kane (Susan Lucci). Gellar left the show two years later, amid rumors of friction on the set between Gellar and Lucci.

• Buffy

  According to various reports, Gellar either initially auditioned for or was cast as bad girl Cordelia Chase in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Once the early, unaired pilot was filmed, however, Gellar was already putting her stamp on the character of Buffy Summers, the former cheerleader turned vampire slayer. The physically challenging role brought Gellar numerous accolades, but Gellar began distancing herself from the project in later seasons, said she would not consider a film sequel to the series, and refused to appear in the final season of Angel. She has since said she would do a film if the script were right.

• Movies

  Gellar's success in films has been moderate. Before she landed the role of Buffy, she appeared in supporting roles in horror hits I Know What You Did Last Summer (where she met husband Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Scream 2. While still on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she appeared in Cruel Intentions, which was a minor hit, and Simply Irresistible, which wasn't. The Scooby-Doo movies were also successful, as was 2004's horror film The Grudge. Since 2004, although she has been the lead in a number of films, none has made an impression at the box office.

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