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Birthname: Sarah Michelle
Gellar
Born: 14 April 1977
Where: New York, New York, USA
Spouse: Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Awards: 1 Golden Globe nomination
Height: 5' 3"
As Buffy The Vampire Slayer, high-kicking, demon-walloping Sarah
Michelle Gellar was world-famed as the Teen Queen of Scream. A fantasy
for boys and a role model for girls, she was one of the Internet's main
attractions. Yet, unlike most of her peers, she's not simply a product
of the late Nineties' tide of programmes and movies aimed at kids
(though she did surf that wave with great aplomb). She was an Emmy-winning
actress way before Buffy and, a full decade before that, she was the
single most controversial 4-year-old in America. These would be helpful
qualifications in her search for post-Buffy film stardom.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was born in New York on the 14th of April, 1977,
to father Arthur and mother Rosellen, a nursery school teacher. Her
parents were not well off. No matter, because Sarah was soon supporting
herself. At age 4, she was spotted by an agent while in an Uptown
Manhattan restaurant with her mother, watching other kids in a talent
contest. Within two weeks, she was auditioning for a part in An Invasion
Of Privacy, a TV movie dealing with rape, starring Valerie "Rhoda"
Harper and featuring Carol Kane and Jeff Daniels. At the audition, she
was supposed to read with Harper but she'd already left for the day, so
the precocious Sarah read her own lines and, putting on Harper's voice,
hers too. The role, unsurprisingly, went her way.
Before the movie was aired, Sarah would already be notorious. The star
of hundreds of adverts over the years, one of her first was for Burger
King. This was no ordinary advert. Indeed, it was the first advert where
a company claimed to out-do its rivals and named names. Thus tiny Sarah
criticised McDonalds for the paltriness of their burgers and claimed to
only ever eat in BK. McDonalds, naturally, were profoundly unhappy with
this, and sued BK, ad agency J. Walter Thompson AND Sarah. The case
would be settled out of court but, before agreement was reached,
4-year-old Sarah appeared in court as a witness for the defence. Later,
invited to a friend's party at McDonalds and thinking she was bound by
the "truth in advertising" act, she wore a big hat and dark glasses.
These days there's no such problem - McDonalds being keen sponsors of
Buffy.
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