Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977 in New York City. She is the only child of Jewish parents Rosellen Greenfield, a nursery school teacher, and Arthur Gellar. In 1984, her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother. She was educated at New York's Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and the Professional Children's School. She was a straight-A student and a good figure skater. She became close friends with Melissa Joan Hart, who later became an actress. Her early projects included television commercials. Her movies include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, Cruel Intentions, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and Happily N'Ever After. She is also widely known as her character Buffy Summers in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She also appeared in
All My Children and Swan's Crossing.
Buffy Summers is played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy was a student and popular cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles and was elected Prom Princess and Fiesta Queen. When she was fifteen she began having dreams about women slaying demons. It was then that she her destiny as Slayer was revealed to her. The most prominent men whom she had relationships with would be Angel and Spike, both vampires. Among others are the normal human boyfriends she had, Tom Warner, Cameron Walker and Scott Hope.
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