FILMOGRAPHY
"I was sitting in a restaurant and had just learned my name and address. This woman walked up to me and asked if I'd like to be on television. I was like, 'Yeah. OK. My name is Sarah Michelle Gellar, I live at...,'and I gave her my address. I didn't know what I was doing. It probably wasn't the smartest thing...I don't do it anymore. I did stop. The woman called my mother, and my mother thought it was a joke, a prank. Then she sent me on a movie audition a week later and I got it. The whole time my mom's thinking,'That's nice, honey, go play,' and I'm thinking, 'No, I'm going to be on TV, Mom, really.' And she's looking at me like I'm insane."
"Acting was in my blood from the time I was little. I was this big ham, and I had to do something! So I would perform for anyone who would listen or watch. I would put on little plays, or act out movies. I was very precocious, like a twenty-five-year-old trapped in a four-year-old body."
1981
"Love, Sidney" (TV) As "Gail Hunnicut"
1982
Burger King commercials - at least 30!
"What I said was, 'Do I look 20 percent smaller to you? I must to McDonald's because their hamburgers are 20 percent smaller,' which everyone knows is true. So I said that and McDonald's didn't know what to do because no one had ever done it before. So McDonalds turned around and sued Burger King and sued J. Walter Thompson, the advertising company, and sued me--at five. There were these big lawyers and little me, at five. I didn't even know how to say the word 'lawyer.' I was calling it 'layuh.' It was very weird to be that young and be called in as a witness. A few months later I was telling my friends, 'I can't play. I've got to give a deposition."
1983
"Invasion Of Privacy" (TV) As "Jennifer Bianchi" (her first real role)
"We did the filming on an island in the winter, and it was freezing! I was really little-I mean I was four, but also small for my age-and there was so much snow, they hired this guy to carry me on the set because they were afraid I'd get lost in a snowdrift."
1984
"Over The Brooklin Bridge" (Movie) As Phil"s daughter, uncredited
1985
Duncan Hines commercial, (9 yrs old) w/ Seth Greene!
"The Widow Claire" (Theater production)
1986
"Crossbow" (TV) As "Sara Guiotti" Filmed in France & Switzerland
"Guiding Light" (TV) As a flower girl at Kurt & Mindy's wedding
"High Stakes" (Movie) As "Karen Rose"
"Spenser: For Hire" (TV) As "Emily" on "The Company Man"
1988
"Funny Farm" (Movie) As Madolyn Smith's student, uncredited
1989
"Girl Talk" (TV Talk Show) As a regular cohost.
1991
"A Woman Named Jackie" (TV) As young "Jacqueline Kennedy"
"Avon" commercial ( See her here )
1992
"Swans Crossing" (TV Teen Soap - 65 episodes) As "Sydney Orion Rutledge"
1993
"All My Children" (TV) As "Kendall" (1993-1995)
"I had a busy first week. I locked my little sister in the crypt, burned my parents' divorce papers, tried to seduce my step- father, and when he turned me down I slept with the stable boy, then cried rape and went to jail. It was a good first week."
Nominated for Outstanding Young Actress in 1994
Won Emmy for Outstanding Young Actress in 1995
1997
"Beverly Hills Family Robinson" (TV) As "Jane Robinson"
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" As "Helen Shivers"
Won Blockbuster awards - Best Supporting Actress in a Horror Film
Won MTV Movie Awards - Best Breakthrough Performance
"Scream 2" As "Casey - aka Cici Cooper"
..."I so desperately wanted to be a part of this movie, I called my agent and I was like, 'Please, please, please, get me in this movie!' It just had a cool feeling about it."
"Buffy The Vampire Slayer" As "Buffy Anne Summers"
..."I probably had eleven auditions and four screen tests. It was the most awful experience of my life, but I was so driven. I thought, 'I'm going to have this role.'"
(#4 on the Top 12 Critical Favorites List of '98
The Year In Cheers - Matt Roush, TV Guide)
1998
"Small Soldiers" (Cartoon Movie) As the voice of Gwendy doll
"King Of The Hill" (Cartoon) As the voice of Bobby's first girlfriend, Marie
"Hercules" (cartoon Movie) As the voice of Andromeda
"50th Annual Emmy Awards" - presenter for Outstanding Makeup for a series, outstanding makeup for a mini-series, movie or special, outstanding visual
effects for a series, and outstanding animated program.
(outstanding makeup went to the makeup artists for "Buffy...")
1999
"She's All That" - As a girl in the lunchroom, uncredited
"Simply Irresistible" As "Amanda Shelton" 2/12
"Cruel Intentions" As "Kathryn Merteuil" 3/5
2002
"Harvard Man" - As Cindi Bandolini
"Scooby-Doo" - As Daphne
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films awarded Sarah a Saturn award, naming her the 1999 TV Best Actress - 6/7/99
"1st Annual Teen Choice Awards (8/8)
Choice Movie Drama - Cruel Intentions
Choice TV Actress - Sarah!
2000
Sarah is now the new Maybelline spokeswoman for the year 2000
Nominated for Best Female Performance, Best Villin and Best Kiss (Cruel Intentions) MTV Movie Awards
TALK SHOWS
...Sarah has now currently been on every talk show known to man (pretty much!) numerous times, such as; Access Hollywood, Jay Leno, David Letterman, E! Uncut, Conan O'Brien, Regis & Kathie Lee, Rosie O'Donnell, Total Request, Vibe and The View. She has also been on other fun late-night shows such as Saturday Night Live (as guest host, multiple times) and Mad TV. She has appeared in well over 100 commercials, and even 'did Broadway'; "Jake's Women" a Neal Simon Broadway play, as Molly.
Someday..."I would like to write children's stories. It is still something I
plan to do. Dr. Seuss is my idol."
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