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Sarah Michelle Gellar

Television & Film Actress, Co-Founder of Foodstirs

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography

She starred in horror films such as The Grudge (2004) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), in family films such as Scooby-Doo (2002), and in indie films such as Harvard Man (2001).

Gellar was born in New York City, the only child of Jewish American parents Arthur Gellar and Rosellen, a nursery school teacher. At the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Uptown Manhattan. Two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in An Invasion Of Privacy, a TV movie starring Valerie Harper, Carol Kane and Jeff Daniels. At the audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper's, which impressed the directors enough to give her the role. A short while later, she got a part in a controversial commercial for Burger King, in which she criticized McDonalds and claimed to eat only at Burger King. This led to a lawsuit against Burger King, ad agency J. Walter Thompson and Gellar herself, who appeared in court as a witness for the defense. The dispute was settled out of court.

Gellar then continued to make commercials while having small parts in TV. In 1984, her parents divorced and she was brought up by her mother on the Upper East Side. She was estranged from her father, Arthur Gellar, from this time until his death from liver cancer on October 9, 2001.

Gellar then attended New York's Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. The same year she had her third TV role as Emily in an episode of the TV series Spenser: For Hire, starring Robert Urich. She had a small part in Chevy Chase's Funny Farm, and filmed in Europe for the TV series Crossbow, based on William Tell.

Gellar attended the Professional Children's School, which was also attended by Tara Reid, Macaulay Culkin, Rebecca Gayheart, and Jerry O'Connell, whom Gellar dated in 1988. Gellar held a straight-A average and became a competent figure skater.

Her best friend was Melissa Joan Hart, who later was the star of the series Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

Gellar had a role in the movie High Stakes opposite Sally Kirkland. In 1991 she played a young Jacqueline Bouvier in A Woman Named Jackie.

Gellar's major break came in 1992, when she starred in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing, after which she starred in the soap opera All My Children, playing the conniving character Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). In 1995, at the age of 18, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series.

Gellar left All My Children in 1995 and landed the lead in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, as a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, with the aid of a group of friends and her Watcher (a teacher of sorts). The show was well received by critics and audiences alike, and, throughout its seven seasons and a total of 144 episodes, Buffy, and Gellar along with her, became cult icons in the United States and the UK.

Gellar sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", which spawned an original cast album.

Gellar has appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, FHM, Rolling Stone, and dozens more. She was in some Got milk? ads, and is a model for Maybelline. She was featured on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2002, 2003, and 2005, and in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women of 2005. In 1998, she was named one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People (in the World)."

With continued success on Buffy, she attempted to capitalize on her television fame to create a career for herself in motion pictures, with intermittent commercial success. After roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 by Wes Craven, she starred in the film Simply Irresistible. This film featured a magical crab and borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate.

Her next film was Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses; this movie included a lesbian kiss between Gellar and Selma Blair. In 1999, she also appeared in the Stone Temple Pilots music video Sour Girl.

She then played a lead role in James Toback's critically unsuccessful Harvard Man (2001), followed by box office success as Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series. Despite being universally panned by critics, the movie was highly popular with audiences, and she also appeared in the movie's sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).

In 2004, David Wirtschafter, the president of the William Morris Agency, which represented Gellar, told The New Yorker that the success of Gellar's low-budget film The Grudge (a remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-on: The Grudge) "takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and . . . makes her a star, potentially. Suddenly, the Sarah Michelle Gellar space is meaningful." The remark led Gellar to terminate her association with the agency.

In 2005, Gellar starred in The Return with Peter O'Brien and Sam Shepard and, the same year, made Southland Tales.

In 2006, she made The Air I Breathe with co-stars Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, and Forest Whitaker in Mexico City. She also reprised her role as Karen Davis in a cameo for The Grudge 2. She will appear briefly in The Grudge 2, to pass the curse onto her sister in the film, played by Amber Tamblyn.

Currently, Sarah is starring in A Girl's Guide to Hunting And Fishing, based on the book of the same name, with co-star Alec Baldwin.

Gellar is expected to start filming Alice, based on the game from American McGee in 2006. Alice is expected to be released summer 2007.

She has a total of 8 movies in different stages of production as of this moment.

On September 1, 2002, Gellar and actor Freddie Prinze, Jr.(who starred alongside her in the Scooby Doo films) were married in Jalisco, Mexico. Adam Shankman, with whom Gellar had worked on Buffy, officiated at the nondenominational wedding. The couple had met several years before, while filming I Know What You Did Last Summer and were engaged in April 2001.

In 2004, while filming The Grudge in Japan, Gellar visited a famous Japanese swordsmith Shoji Yoshihara (Kuniie III) and bought a Samurai sword from him as a birthday present for her husband.Gellar realized that she needed clearance from the government to remove it from the country, and after eventually succeeding, she stated that it was "an incredibly difficult feat" to do.

Gellar is sometimes thought to be an atheist, but she has said in interviews that she believes in God, but doesn't belong to a religion.

She is set to star in a new CBS TV series titled, "The Crazy Ones".

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    Speaking fees for Sarah Michelle Gellar, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Sarah Michelle Gellar are available upon request for live events and available upon request for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Sarah Michelle Gellar, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
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    Sarah Michelle Gellar generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Sarah Michelle Gellar’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Sarah Michelle Gellar for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Sarah Michelle Gellar for your next private or corporate function.
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    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Sarah Michelle Gellar or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography

She starred in horror films such as The Grudge (2004) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), in family films such as Scooby-Doo (2002), and in indie films such as Harvard Man (2001).

Gellar was born in New York City, the only child of Jewish American parents Arthur Gellar and Rosellen, a nursery school teacher. At the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Uptown Manhattan. Two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in An Invasion Of Privacy, a TV movie starring Valerie Harper, Carol Kane and Jeff Daniels. At the audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper's, which impressed the directors enough to give her the role. A short while later, she got a part in a controversial commercial for Burger King, in which she criticized McDonalds and claimed to eat only at Burger King. This led to a lawsuit against Burger King, ad agency J. Walter Thompson and Gellar herself, who appeared in court as a witness for the defense. The dispute was settled out of court.

Gellar then continued to make commercials while having small parts in TV. In 1984, her parents divorced and she was brought up by her mother on the Upper East Side. She was estranged from her father, Arthur Gellar, from this time until his death from liver cancer on October 9, 2001.

Gellar then attended New York's Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. The same year she had her third TV role as Emily in an episode of the TV series Spenser: For Hire, starring Robert Urich. She had a small part in Chevy Chase's Funny Farm, and filmed in Europe for the TV series Crossbow, based on William Tell.

Gellar attended the Professional Children's School, which was also attended by Tara Reid, Macaulay Culkin, Rebecca Gayheart, and Jerry O'Connell, whom Gellar dated in 1988. Gellar held a straight-A average and became a competent figure skater.

Her best friend was Melissa Joan Hart, who later was the star of the series Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

Gellar had a role in the movie High Stakes opposite Sally Kirkland. In 1991 she played a young Jacqueline Bouvier in A Woman Named Jackie.

Gellar's major break came in 1992, when she starred in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing, after which she starred in the soap opera All My Children, playing the conniving character Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). In 1995, at the age of 18, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series.

Gellar left All My Children in 1995 and landed the lead in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, as a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, with the aid of a group of friends and her Watcher (a teacher of sorts). The show was well received by critics and audiences alike, and, throughout its seven seasons and a total of 144 episodes, Buffy, and Gellar along with her, became cult icons in the United States and the UK.

Gellar sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", which spawned an original cast album.

Gellar has appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, FHM, Rolling Stone, and dozens more. She was in some Got milk? ads, and is a model for Maybelline. She was featured on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2002, 2003, and 2005, and in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women of 2005. In 1998, she was named one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People (in the World)."

With continued success on Buffy, she attempted to capitalize on her television fame to create a career for herself in motion pictures, with intermittent commercial success. After roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 by Wes Craven, she starred in the film Simply Irresistible. This film featured a magical crab and borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate.

Her next film was Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses; this movie included a lesbian kiss between Gellar and Selma Blair. In 1999, she also appeared in the Stone Temple Pilots music video Sour Girl.

She then played a lead role in James Toback's critically unsuccessful Harvard Man (2001), followed by box office success as Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series. Despite being universally panned by critics, the movie was highly popular with audiences, and she also appeared in the movie's sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).

In 2004, David Wirtschafter, the president of the William Morris Agency, which represented Gellar, told The New Yorker that the success of Gellar's low-budget film The Grudge (a remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-on: The Grudge) "takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and . . . makes her a star, potentially. Suddenly, the Sarah Michelle Gellar space is meaningful." The remark led Gellar to terminate her association with the agency.

In 2005, Gellar starred in The Return with Peter O'Brien and Sam Shepard and, the same year, made Southland Tales.

In 2006, she made The Air I Breathe with co-stars Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, and Forest Whitaker in Mexico City. She also reprised her role as Karen Davis in a cameo for The Grudge 2. She will appear briefly in The Grudge 2, to pass the curse onto her sister in the film, played by Amber Tamblyn.

Currently, Sarah is starring in A Girl's Guide to Hunting And Fishing, based on the book of the same name, with co-star Alec Baldwin.

Gellar is expected to start filming Alice, based on the game from American McGee in 2006. Alice is expected to be released summer 2007.

She has a total of 8 movies in different stages of production as of this moment.

On September 1, 2002, Gellar and actor Freddie Prinze, Jr.(who starred alongside her in the Scooby Doo films) were married in Jalisco, Mexico. Adam Shankman, with whom Gellar had worked on Buffy, officiated at the nondenominational wedding. The couple had met several years before, while filming I Know What You Did Last Summer and were engaged in April 2001.

In 2004, while filming The Grudge in Japan, Gellar visited a famous Japanese swordsmith Shoji Yoshihara (Kuniie III) and bought a Samurai sword from him as a birthday present for her husband.Gellar realized that she needed clearance from the government to remove it from the country, and after eventually succeeding, she stated that it was "an incredibly difficult feat" to do.

Gellar is sometimes thought to be an atheist, but she has said in interviews that she believes in God, but doesn't belong to a religion.

She is set to star in a new CBS TV series titled, "The Crazy Ones".

Sarah Michelle Gellar Videos

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar on why she is a SheKnows Expert - YouTube
  • Alt Winter 2016 with Sarah Michelle Gellar on Vimeo

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  • How do I book Sarah Michelle Gellar to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Sarah Michelle Gellar for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Sarah Michelle Gellar, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Sarah Michelle Gellar or any other speaker of your choice.
  • What are the speaker fees for Sarah Michelle Gellar

    Speaking fees for Sarah Michelle Gellar, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Sarah Michelle Gellar are available upon request for live events and available upon request for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Sarah Michelle Gellar, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Sarah Michelle Gellar speak about?

  • Where does Sarah Michelle Gellar travel from?

    Sarah Michelle Gellar generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Sarah Michelle Gellar’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Sarah Michelle Gellar for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Sarah Michelle Gellar for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Sarah Michelle Gellar or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Sarah Michelle Gellar for your event is available upon request. Sarah Michelle Gellar generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Rita Wilson, Natasha Lyonne, Brooke Shields, Kate Mulgrew and Jameela Jamil. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Sarah Michelle Gellar for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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  • Sarah Michelle Gellar on why she is a SheKnows Expert - YouTube
    Alt Winter 2016 with Sarah Michelle Gellar on Vimeo

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