Sarah Michelle Gellar is a famous American actress and TV movie producer. The popularity of the girl came through participation in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
Sarah Michelle Gellar: biography
Sarah was born on April 14, 1977 in New York City, United States of America. The girl was the only child in the family. The actress's father and mother are of Jewish origin, but the family was not too religious and they always decorated the Christmas tree for the holidays.
When the girl was 8 years old, her parents separated. Sarah stayed with her mother, who worked as a kindergarten teacher. After the divorce, the father did not help the family at all, forgetting about their existence. The girl studied at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and attended a professional school.
Mother Sarah Michelle Gellar dreamed that the girl received a decent education. Therefore, she sent her daughter to study at a school for children of we althy parents. For Sarah's mother, this training was quite expensive, in addition, she could not provide her daughter with appropriate leisure time and outfits, in which Sarah's classmates used to go. It was uncomfortable for the girl to be within the walls of the school, becauseshe constantly felt her inadequacy with her peers.
In addition to school, the future actress was fond of figure skating and once took 3rd place in city competitions.
Movie auditions
When the actress was a young child, she dreamed of becoming a photojournalist. She enjoyed watching small animals and birds, which she wanted to submit to local magazines. However, fate gave little Sarah another way to become famous.
The famous actress started acting from the age of 4. True, these were photographs for the covers of children's magazines. Having matured a little, Sarah got a role in a commercial, which happened under the following circumstances.
Once, during lunch in a Manhattan cafe, a respectable man who had been watching her for a long time approached the girl and asked if she wanted to become a popular film actress who would be constantly shown on television. Since then, little Sarah has forgotten about her childhood dream of becoming a journalist and decided to go into television.
She left her phone number and address to a stranger. However, one of the first TV projects tarnished the name of the future actress with a scandalous video, and the girl was put on trial.
Sarah was entrusted with a serious role when she was 6 years old. She starred in an episode of An Invasion of Privacy. And a year later, in 1984, she played her first prominent role in a movie called Across the Brooklyn Bridge.
True popularity
Real glory Sarah Michelle Gellar (photo of actressgiven in the article) received by playing a role in the teenage television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the production, the actress played the main character - Ann Buffy Summers.
Back in 1996, the actress went to audition for a television series in order to try her hand at the role of the beauty Cordelia. However, the creators of the series offered Sarah Michelle Gellar to play the role of Buffy, and Charisma Carpenter, who claimed the lead role, was offered to play the fashionista Cordelia. At the age of 24, the actress was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a television series.
In between filming the series, the girl appeared in such films as Cruel Intentions, The Air I Breathe and Scream 2.
Meet your future spouse
Sarah Michelle Gellar in I Know What You Did Last Summer played the role of Helen Shivers. In this thriller, the actress demonstrated all her wrestling skills. The film director, after watching the duplicates, told the girl that she fought the killer the way she would in real life.
The actress was awarded two awards for her believable role. She originally won the Best Supporting Actress award in the Horror Film Competition and was later awarded the MTV Breakthrough of the Year award.
While acting in the film, the girl met her future husband, actor Freddie, who played in Ray Bronson's film.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr
After filming inIn the film “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, Sarah and Freddie remained just friends, since at that time the young man had an affair with another girl. Young people did not see each other and did not even communicate.
After a while, Freddie broke up with his beloved and decided to restore old ties. As a result, in 2002, Sarah and Freddie began an affair. And a year later they announced their engagement.
In September 2002, Sarah married an actor with whom she had been in a relationship for several years before the wedding. The solemn ceremony of marriage took place in Mexico. It is known that only close and dear people of the newlyweds were present at the wedding. Sarah's husband was dressed in an elegant suit by Sy Devor, and the bride wore a luxurious wedding dress by Vera Wang. At the request of Sarah, the wedding cake presented to the guests was created by the best confectioner and master of his craft. The delicacy had a vanilla taste and was decorated with beautiful live roses. For the fifth year of her marriage, the actress gave her husband an unusual gift, henceforth her full name is Sarah Michelle Prinze.
The couple has two children. Charlotte Grace Prince was born in September 2009. Boy Rocky James Prince was born in September 2012.
The star couple lives in San Fernando Valley. In a cottage worth $3 million. The house has five bedrooms. One of them is now occupied by little Rocky.
Return to TV
In 2011, Sarah returned to television, filming. TV series "Twins" -the producer, whom the film actress herself became, did not gain fame, having existed for a rather short period. It was closed after filming one season due to low performance in the overall viewership rating. In 2013, the girl starred in the title role of the television series Crazy, and from 2015 to the present, she has been voicing one of the characters in the American animated series Star Wars Rebels.
Surprisingly, when Sarah was asked if she would like to play again with her husband on the same set, the girl replied that she was afraid to repeat the fate of the famous Hollywood couple, who broke up precisely after working on one project.
