People Weekly - 9/1/97

Sarah Michelle Gellar

.....At age 4, Gellar played Valerie Harper's daughter in An Invasion Of Privacy. At 14, she was the young Jackie in A Woman Named Jackie. Now, at 20, she's the nation's foremost hemophobic heroine. "I always wanted to play a strong, feminine character who makes mistakes," says Gellar, an only child who grew up in New York City. "Buffy's a real good role model."

"Sure I believe in vampires," says Buffy's Gellar. "I see them all the time."