Sarah grew
up in Upper-East New York City with her mother, a divorced
schoolteacher. Sarah's career was initiated when she was in
her late 3 years of age. Here, she was discovered by an agent
while dining with her mother at a local restaurant. Within
three weeks, she was on the set of her first film entitled
An Invasion of Privacy. Her first commercial created a lawsuit
entitled "The Battle of Burgers," which was a trial
between McDonald's and Burger King (the lawsuit was settled
in 1982). Afterwards, she was in a multitude of commercials
(advancing past 100) and was introduced to larger roles. Such
roles included Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984), Funny Farm
(1988), High Stakes (1989), TV Series Spencer: For Higher
(1986), and acted in a Circle in a the Square production of
Horton Foote's The Widow Claire. Within these years, she attended
a famous New York High School, Professional Children's High
School. She also excelled as a competitive figure skater.
At the age of 14, Sarah's
career was growing exponentially. This led to her first stand-out
role, portrayal as Jacqueline Bouvier in the 1991 NBC mini-series,
A Woman Named Jackie. In 1992, she found another lead role
as Sydney Rutledge in a syndicated series called Swan's Crossing
and a role as Molly in Neil Simon's Broadway production, Jake's
Women. February 24th, 1993 was a big year for Sarah, providing
her with an adult role on the daytime drama All My Children
(AMC). Sarah played as the ultimate villain in AMC, leading
her to the winner of an Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actress
in 1994. Sarah abandoned the set of AMC to move to California
to seek new fame in films and TV.
In 1996, Sarah found her new
fame by becoming the lead role as Buffy Summers in the new
television action series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS).
BtVS was based on creator Joss Whedon's script of the 1992
movie of the same title, finishing where the movie left off.
BtVS's second season became WB's the highest ranking offering,
offering not only WB favored status, but providing Sarah with
big-screen options. BtVS is now nearing the premiere of it's
3rd season, starting in late September.
Being skilled in her area,
Sarah has been in two popular 1997 thrillers: a beauty queen
in distress with her friends in I Know What You Did Last Summer
and a sorority girl meeting her terrifying demise in Wes Craven's
sequel to the 1996 popular horror film, Scream 2. Sarah has
also starred as a voice of the "Gwendy" doll appearing
in the 1998 movie, Small Soldiers. Sarah has also starred
in two movies which are to be released in 1999: Cruel Intentions
and Simply Irresistible. Cruel Intentions is an updated retelling
of Dangerous Liaisons set in suburban Connecticut and Simply
Irresistible is about a department store executive who tries
to resist falling in love with a young woman (Gellar) because
he believes she has possessed magical powers after inheriting
a restaurant from her father.
Sarah as been interviewed
on popular late night shows which includes: The Jay Leno Show,
The David Letterman Show, The Regis Philbin Show, and Conan
O'Brien Show.
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