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Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Prinze (née Gellar; born April 14, 1977) is an American actress and producer. After being spotted by an agent at the age of four in New York City, she made her acting debut in the made-for-TV movie An Invasion of Privacy (1983). Gellar went on to appear in episodes of Spenser: For Hire and Crossbow and have small roles in films such as Funny Farm (1988) and High Stakes (1989). She had her first leading part in 1992's mini-series Swans Crossing, for which she was nominated for two Young Artist Awards. Gellar's television breakthrough came in 1993, when 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 received worldwide recognition for her portrayal of Buffy Summers on the WB/UPN TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), which earned her six Teen Choice Awards, the Saturn Award for Best Genre Television Actress and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. The character was widely popular during the airing of the show and became recognized as one of the 100 greatest female characters in United States television. With the initial success of the series, Gellar also gained notoriety for her roles in 1997's horror movies I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, and in 1999 she garnered praise for her performance as Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions. She played Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo (2002), a movie that emerged as her biggest live-action commercial success.After Buffy ended, 2004 saw Gellar star in two box office hits, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed and The Grudge. She then appeared in The Grudge 2 (2006) and subsequently focused on smaller-scale projects such as Southland Tales (2007), The Air I Breathe (2008) and Veronika Decides to Die (2009). She had the starring role in the television drama series Ringer, that had an one-season run from 2011 to 2012 and also starred in the CBS television sitcom The Crazy Ones alongside Robin Williams from 2013 until it was cancelled in May 2014.