Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar has created a television icon with her portrayal of Buffy Summers. After rising from the dead, Buffy has had to assume new adult responsibilities along with saving the world. The Slayer is also a single, working woman trying to raise her sister. She will be facing new challenges and threats, including a romantically rebuffed Spike, which promise the battle against evil is far from over.

Emmy Award-winning actress Gellar is a veteran of television, theater and the big screen, having worked for nearly 19 of her 25 years. She is best known for playing the title role in the hit series BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination in 2001. She is also a spokesperson for Revlon.

Gellar was recently seen in the Warner Bros. blockbuster film "Scooby Doo," co-starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini, which premiered with the second highest-grossing June weekend opening in history. She also co-hosted "The 2002 MTV Movie Awards" with Jack Black, which garnered the award show's highest ratings in the network's history.

In 1997, Gellar starred in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Scream 2." She won a 1998 Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "I Know What You Did Last Summer." In 2000, she won the MTV Movie Award for her role in "Cruel Intentions." Her additional film credits include "Simply Irresistible," "Harvard Man," "Funny Farm" and "Over the Brooklyn Bridge."

Gellar won an Emmy Award in 1994 for her role on the daytime drama "All My Children." She also starred in the made-for-television movie "An Invasion of Privacy" and the mini-series "A Woman Named Jackie," in which she played a young Jackie Kennedy.

Her theater credits include "The Widow Claire" at the Old Globe Theatre and "Jake's Women," opposite Matthew Broderick, at Circle in the Square.

A New York native, Gellar resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr.

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