Sarah Michelle Prinze Gellar is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. She is best known for her role as Buffy Summers on the WB drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 2015, Gellar, along with Galit Laibow and Greg Fleishman, founded Foodstirs, an e-commerce startup selling baking kits.
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Sarah Michelle Prinze Gellar is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. She is best known for her role as Buffy Summers on the WB drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gellar was born on Long Island, New York, to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. At the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Upper Manhattan. In 2015, Gellar, along with Galit Laibow and Greg Fleishman, founded Foodstirs, an e-commerce startup selling baking kits, and in 2017, she released her own cookbook, Stirring Up Fun with Food. She also worked as a model for Wilhela Wilmina and acted in numerous television commercials for McDonald’s and Burger King, which led to a lawsuit by McDonald’s, naming Gellar and banning her from eating at the food chain. She once described her father, from whom she remained estranged until his death in 2001, as ‘non-existent’, and in the early 2000s, she stated: ‘I’m not being deliberately evasive about him, it’s just that there’s so little to say’ Gellar graduated from the Professional Children’s School in 1994 as a’straight A’ student with a 4.0 grade average. She was given a partial scholarship to study at the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, as her mother was not able to pay full tuition, for which she was constantly bullied. She later attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, but dropped out due to acting obligations, despite earning good grades.
She went on to headline the short-lived CW drama thriller series Ringer and the CBS comedy series The Crazy Ones. Her most successful films at the box office include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, Cruel Intentions, Scooby-Doo and The Grudge. She has also starred in numerous independent films, such as Southland Tales, Suburban Girl, TMNT, and Veronika Decides to Die. She won the 1995 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for the role of Kendall Hart on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children. She appeared in a controversial television commercial for Burger King in which her character claimed to eat only at Burger King and claimed to only have eaten apple pies. In 1984, when she was seven, her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She lost contact with her father until he died in 2001; she once described him as’non-existent’ and in an interview with The Independent, she said: ‘I was different and that’s the one thing you can’t be at school, because you’re ostracised. I didn’t have the money these kids had’ Gellar has a black belt in taekwondo and was a competitive figure skater, once finishing in third place at a New York State regional competition, as well as having a gold medal in figure skating.
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