Sarah Michelle Prinze,
[Kaplan, Don. FRESH PRINZE: 'BUFFY' TAKES HER HUBBY'S NAME. New York Post. November 16, 2007.][Gellar Takes Prinze's Name. SFGate.com. November 16, 2007.] (born April 14, 1977) better known by her birth name of
Sarah Michelle Gellar, is an
American actress. She is best known for her role as the character
Buffy Summers in the acclaimed
television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won in total six
Teen Choice Awards, and the
Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a
Golden Globe Award nomination. The show set up Gellar as an icon and star in the industry from the first season of the show. She won a
Daytime Emmy Award for her role in
All My Children as character
Kendall Hart.
She has since become known as a film actress, starring in the
family film Scooby-Doo (2002) as
Daphne Blake, and the American remake of Japanese horror film
The Grudge (2004) and its sequel
The Grudge 2 (2006). Earlier establishing roles include the teen drama
Cruel Intentions (1999); the
slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997); the other slasher film
Scream 2 (1997); and the independent film
Harvard Man (2001). Most recently she played an ex-porn star in Richard Kelly's
Southland Tales (2007) and as part of an ensemble cast in
The Air I Breathe (2008). Her many horror roles have established Gellar as a "
scream queen".
