Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar

On April 14th, 1977, in a New York City hospital, a woman by the name of Rosellen Gellar gave birth to a child that would one day become one of Hollywood's most amazing and beautiful actresses. Her name is Sarah Michelle Gellar, a person no one had expected to become so successful at such a young age.

Sarah Michelle Gellar career began at the age of 4, in a local restaurant in her hometown, when an agent spotted her. Within a month, Sarah Michelle Gellar was given a part in a Burger King commercial and had started filming her first movie, Invasion of Privacy. More and more agents began to see potential in Sarah Michelle Gellar and they got in contact with her. Soon, Sarah Michelle Gellar started a career in theatre. She appeared in the many onstage performances including "The Widow Claire". She then went on to appear in numerous commercials and made guest appearances on many TV shows such as "Spenser: For Hire", "Love, Sidney", "The David Letterman Show" and "The Regis Philbin Show". 
Then, she was given the chance to play Sydney Rutledge in "Swans Crossing", a soap opera that is highly watched by teenagers in the late 80's. Sarah Michelle Gellar popularity continued to grow, but was still not at high as it could be. Sarah Michelle Gellar soon goes on to get a permanent part on a show, when she was asked to be in the award winning soap opera, "All My Children". 

Everyone was impressed with Sarah Michelle Gellar acting on the show. She later won an Emmy award for her role on "All My Children". After all the hard work, Sarah Michelle Gellar finally gets her big break in 1996, when she chosen to star in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". The show became a hit! Sarah's popularity skyrocketed. In late 1996, Sarah Michelle Gellar began filming her first big movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Soon afterwards she was given a part in "Scream 2", and instantly became a big name in the horror genre.
1997 was Sarah Michelle Gellar big year. She began taping the 2nd season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". She was proclaimed one of TV's 40 Most Fascinating Stars. "A talented, promising young new star" says Entertainment Weekly. She is named as one of the top ten in People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" and was considered one of the best new actresses of the year by Time Magazine, US Magazine, and Celebrity Online. She appears in over 50 different magazines, and makes the covers of publications such as Rolling Stone, YM, Seventeen, and TV Guide. She also wins a Blockbuster Award in the category "Best Supporting Actress in a Horror Film" for her role in "I Know What You Did Last Summer".

In May 1998 she's been nominated for a MTV Movie Award in category "Breakthrough Performance". She has begun taping a new season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and is currently filming several new movies including "Cruel Inventions" and "Vanilla Fog".

Today, on top of all the work and stress she goes through, she still has time to go ice skating, scuba diving, shopping, and spending time with friends. She is a very nice, caring person, with many special talents like kickboxing and tae kwon doe. She is an amazing actress, and deserves all the respect she gets.

A film that will leave you with a 'Grudge'
Reviews

'The Grudge' leaves our reviewer with a grudge! By AUSTIN ROBLES

By AUSTIN ROBLES

Date published: 11/11/2004

YOUTH CORRESPONDENT

Movie name: "The Grudge"

Genre: Horror

Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr and a couple of people no one knows.

Overall: Save your money for food.

Plot: Sarah Michelle Gellar is in Japan to take care of people incapable of living by themselves. She finds out that one of her customers' houses is haunted and all that good stuff. Ghosts pop out; a typical horror film follows.

Does it deserve its rating? Its rating shouldn't be PG-13. If I could, I would give it an F-minus for failure and a half.

Favorite scene: The best scene is in the very beginning. A guy is standing on his balcony, and then he throws himself off it. Then you find out his reason for suicide is idiotic.

Leave on the cutting-room floor: As the plot progresses, the suicide scene--once the favorite--should have been done away with. There was no more reason to show it than there was reason for him to kill himself.

Top performer: Sarah Michelle Gellar because she's hot.

Flop performer: Sarah Michelle Gellar because she looked like she was going to laugh when she should have been scared or crying.

Compare it to: If you want to see a good film of an Asian remake, see "The Ring" or "The Eye." Both were better than this disgrace to the horror genre. Buffy couldn't act when she owned her own show, and she can't act when she tries to speak Japanese.

Afterthoughts: The only thing I got out of this was a lower grade on my English paper, which I should have been writing instead of seeing this darn movie.

AUSTIN ROBLES is a junior at the Principia Upper School.

Date published: 11/11/2004

Behr Hits the Bulls Eye
Two years after his Kevin Spacey movie flops, former Roswell regular Jason Behr is able to scare up a new fan base opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Grudge.

By Christina Radish

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Minnesota native Behr

Although Jason Behr starred in some 75 TV commercials and Roswell before jumping into the movies, chances are he will begin to experience a whole new level of attention in Hollywood following the mammoth opening weekend performance of The Grudge. The slick remake doubled even Hollywood's own internal box office expectations with an estimated take of $40 million.

And so, the next time Behr films a movie in Japan, it’s unlikely he’ll experience the kind of anonymity enjoyed not just by himself, but also somewhat surprisingly by his better known co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar.

“The beauty of it was that Roswell and Buffy the Vampire Slayer had just started showing in Japan, so nobody had any knowledge of those things,” declares Behr during a recent interview with FilmStew. “It was amazing. We were able to just walk around, unaffected by anything that we’d done before. We just had our run of the city.”

Gellar Won't Sing in Kelly's 'Southland' Musical
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Sarah Michelle Gellar is set to star in the upcoming "Southland Tales," helmed by "Donnie Darko" writer/director Richard Kelly. But the actress tells Zap2it.com that she wont be singing in the mysterious film pitched as a comedy/musical/thriller.

"No, you can all rest assured that I will not [sing]," says the 27-year old actress. Although Gellar belted out a few tunes during her TV "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" days, she has no plans to revisit the experience. "That was the most miserable experience of my entire [life]," she says after explaining that she only had three weeks to prepare for her song.

But even though "Southland Tales," doesn't begin shooting until early next year, it's not enough time for Gellar to prepare, saying, "For singing [that's] probably not enough."

Gellar remains tight lipped about who will sing in the film that also stars Seann William Scott, Jeanne Garofalo and writer/director Kevin Smith.

However, Gellar does take a stab at explaining the musical comedy's plot which revolves around a Los Angeles heatwave in 2008 that results in a massive Fourth of July party.

"It's less strange than 'Donnie Darko' -- that's kind of an obvious statement -- a lot more characters, a lot more interwoven story but again it's all in Richard Kelly's head. I would not do justice," she says.

"Can you imagine trying to explain 'Donnie Darko' to people before they saw it? 'Okay, it's about a guy and there's this six-foot imaginary bunny,'" she laughs. "Richard Kelly to me is just a genius."

"Donnie Darko" stars siblings Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal and was released in 2001, but re-released again in theaters with an editor's cut this summer after becoming an instant cult hit among college students.

Gellar's most recent film, "The Grudge" opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, Oct. 22.

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