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Gellar's major break was in 1992, in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing. From there, she moved on to another soap opera, All My Children, where she played the conniving character Kendall Hart Lang, long-lost daughter of principal character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). In 1995, at the age of eighteen, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series. She left the series later that year after highly-publicized fights with Lucci, who was, by many accounts (reported by, among others, soap columnist Michael Logan), jealous of Sarah Michelle's Emmy win; this is due to Lucci receiving over a dozen nominations and never winning.
Gellar left All My Children in 1995, and landed the lead in the highly successful Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The role made her a cult icon in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in and elsewhere.
Though many regarded her character as a feminist icon, Gellar told Detour magazine: "I hate the word 'feminist.' It has a bad connotation of women who don't shave their legs or under their arms."
While continuing in that role, she attempted to capitalize on her television fame in order to create a career for herself in motion pictures. She has had only intermittent success. After small roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last SummerI Know What You Did Last Summer is a horror film first released in 1997. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Anne Heche. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson based on a popular novel writt and Scream 2Scream 2 is a 1997 horror film, a sequel to the original Scream''. The film was written by Kevin Williamson and like all the films in the trilogy it was directed by Wes Craven. The plot centers around some mysterious killings that take place after the rel, Gellar starred in the disastrous flop Simply IrresistibleSimply Irresistible is a 1999 romantic comedy that stars Sarah Michelle Gellar in the role of Amanda Shelton. Cast Sarah Michelle Gellar as Amanda Shelton Sean Patrick Flanery as Tom Bartlett Patricia Clarkson Dylan Baker Christopher Durang Larry Gilliard. This film, rumored to be the last film ever watched by critic Gene SiskelEugene "Gene" Kal Siskel ( January 26, 1946 February 21, 1999) was, along with partner Roger Ebert, one of the two most famous film critics in the world. Siskel graduated from Yale University in 1967 and began working for the Chicago Tribune in 1969., featured a magical crab and borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate. Gellar's next film was the steamy Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She then went on to play a lead role in Harvard Man, a critical disaster that went straight-to-video.
Gellar finally found major box office success playing Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series. The film was popular with audiences but panned by critics. Gellar also appears in the movie's sequel.
During the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Once More, With Feeling", which spawned an original cast album, Gellar sang on several of the songs: "Going Through the Motions", "I've Got a Theory", "Walk Through the Fire", "Something to Sing About", and "Where Do We Go From Here?".
On September 1, 2002, Gellar and actor Freddie Prinze Jr. were married in Mexico.
Sarah Michelle Gellar recently starred in The Grudge, a 2004 remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-on which has so far made $40 million as of Sunday, October 24th, 2004.
Her next film project will be Southland Tales, a film by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly- [1]