Gellar was estranged from her father until his death from liver cancer on October 9, 2001.

At the audition, Gellar read both her own lines and those of Harper, impressing the directors enough to cast her in the role.

Gellar has lent her voice to animated TV series, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and several episodes of Robot Chicken.

Gellar built on her television fame with a motion picture career, and had intermittent commercial success.

Critic Roger Ebert stated that Gellar and co-star Ryan Phillippe " develop a convincing emotional charge " and that Gellar is " effective as a bright girl who knows exactly how to use her act as a tramp ".

The movie included two sex scenes with Gellar, helping her shed her good girl image even more after 1999's Cruel Intentions.

During her growing film career Gellar continued work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; however, she decided to leave the show after the seventh season.

In her feature in Esquire magazine Gellar expressed her pride for her work on Buffy, " I truly believe that it is one of the greatest shows of all time and it will go down in history as that.

David Wirtschafter, the president of the William Morris Agency ( which represented Gellar ), subsequently told The New Yorker that the success of The Grudge " takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and … makes her a star, potentially.

The remark led Gellar to terminate her association with the agency ; Gellar is now represented by the Creative Artists Agency.

Gellar appeared in the sequel The Grudge 2, which opened in October 2006 ; in the film, she has a minor role reprising her character from the first film.

Gellar next appeared in the thriller The Return, which was released the following month and in which she played a businesswoman haunted by memories of her childhood and the mysterious death of a young woman.

Gellar then lent her voice to two animated films: the animated fairy tale Happily N ' Ever After, and TMNT, in which she played April O ' Neil.

After her work in 2009, her daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze was born and Gellar decided to take a break from work to spend time with her.

In 2011, Gellar signed on to star and work as executive producer for a new drama titled Ringer, in which she plays a woman on the run who manages to hide by living the life of her wealthy twin sister.

Gellar has stated that part of her decision to return to a television series was because it allows her to both work and raise her daughter.

Gellar and husband Freddie Prinze, Jr. at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival

In 2004, while filming The Grudge in Japan, Gellar visited the famous Japanese swordsmith Shoji Yoshihara ( Kuniie III ) and bought a katana from him as a birthday present for her husband.

They were replaced with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.

The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr., and features Anne Heche and Bridgette Wilson in supporting roles.

After winning a beauty pageant, Helen ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), along with Julie ( Jennifer Love Hewitt ), Barry ( Ryan Phillippe ), and Ray ( Freddie Prinze Jr .) go out of town to celebrate.

Popular actors in teen films have included Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills, and Sal Mineo, in the 1960s and 70s, members of the Brat Pack, John Cusack in the 80s and early 90s, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, Neve Campbell, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seann William Scott, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jason Biggs, and other teenage sensations in the late 90s and throughout the 2000s, who were either pre-teens or teens at the time of the movies themselves.

He also worked as the lead singer in the Scooby Doo movie starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

* Sarah Michelle Gellar was only available for three days of shooting on this episode because of her wedding to Freddie Prinze, Jr.

The film stars the voices of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn, Patrick Warburton, George Carlin, and Sigourney Weaver.

Sarah Michelle Prinze ( née Gellar ; born April 14, 1977 ), better known as Sarah Michelle Gellar (), is an American actress and producer.

In 2007, Gellar legally changed her name to Sarah Michelle Prinze in honor of the couple's fifth year of marriage.

Gellar and Prinze have two children together: daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze ( born in September 2009 ), and a son ( born in September 2012 ).

* Sarah Michelle Prinze ( née Gellar ), an actress best known for her role on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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

The first film of that trilogy also had a starring role for Sarah Michelle Gellar, who started her career on television as the title character in the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and went on to appear in other horror films made during the ' 90s and new millennium.

By the end of the filming of Tara's death scene, Gellar and Benson were crying.

Gellar was actually sought for the penultimate episode " Power Play ", but proved unavailable because she was busy finishing the filming of The Grudge.

Gellar stated that she was screen tested eleven times ( originally auditioning for the role of Cordelia ), before she landed the lead in the 1997 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, mostly vampires.

Gellar got a role in the teen horror Scream 2, in which she portrayed Cici Cooper, a Sorority sister and film fan.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

The film was successful at the box office, grossing $ 125, 586, 134 worldwide and earned Gellar a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Horror and a MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance.

After making a cameo appearance in the romantic comedy She's All That, Gellar had the starring role in Simply Irresistible, film that premiered in early 1999.

" Shortly after the show's end, Gellar stated that she had no interest in appearing in a Buffy feature film, but that she will consider it if the script is good enough.

Her on screen chemistry with Alec Baldwin was either criticized or praised, with Eye For Film commenting, " The film works best when Baldwin and Gellar are together – aside from the fact that Gellar seriously needs to eat a bun or two ".

The film Possession, starring Gellar, has had a range of release dates – starting with February 2008.

They were engaged in April 2001 and married in Mexico on September 1, 2002 in a ceremony officiated by Adam Shankman, a film director and choreographer with whom Gellar had worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Buffy was portrayed by Kristy Swanson in the film, and later by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the television series.

Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American drama film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair.

In this same year, she co-starred with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe in the drama film Cruel Intentions, a modern take on the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

** Possession ( 2009 film ), a U. S. remake of the South Korean film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

The final film that he reviewed in print was the Sarah Michelle Gellar romantic comedy Simply Irresistible, which he gave a thumbs-down.

* The Return ( 2006 film ), a 2006 film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

Harvard Man is a 2001 crime comedy-drama thriller film written and directed by James Toback, and starring Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams, Eric Stoltz, and Rebecca Gayheart.

The 1993 arrival of Kendall Hart ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) prompted the reveal that prior to the series ' debut, Erica had been raped at age 14 by Eric's friend, film star Richard Fields.

Daphne was portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the film Scooby Doo and its sequel, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.