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Birthdate: April 14, 1977
Birthplace: New York, New York
Occupation: Actor
Quote: "Sarah has been doing this for her whole life, and that could make a person completely strange and ...stupid. But Sarah thinks about the whole picture. She could direct. She could produce. She can do all of those things very ably. She's as good an actress as I've ever worked with, and believe me when I say that I am as bitter a man about actors as you will ever meet." --Joss Whedon, BtVS creator and exec producer, in Rolling Stone
Claim to Fame: Played Kendall Hart on the ABC daytime drama All My Children (1993-96) but now indelibly etched as Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Significant Other(s): Husband: Freddie Prinze Jr., actor; engaged April 13, 2001; married September 1, 2002 Jerry O'Connell, actor
Family: Father: Arthur, divorced from Gellar's mother 1984, died 2001 Mother: Rosellen, nursery school teacher; divorced
Awards: 1995: Daytime Emmy: Outstanding Younger Actress in a Daytime Drama, All My Children2000: MTV Movie Award: Best Female Performance, Cruel Intentions2000: MTV Movie Award: Best Kiss, Cruel Intentions, award shared with Selma Blair
Factoids: Began career appearing in Burger King commercials at age four
Education:
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, NYC
Fiorello LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, NYC
Professional Children's School, NYC
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