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

Gellar met her future husband Freddie Prinze, Jr., during filming of the 1997 teen horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer but the two did not begin dating until 2000.

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.

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.

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.

Throughout its seven seasons and a total of 144 episodes, Buffy, and by extension Gellar, became cult icons in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who plays Buffy on the show, would later also appear as Daphne Blake in the films Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

She grows faint at the sight of monsters, but quickly forms a friendship with Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) and is revealed to have grown up as friends with Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ).

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

Buffy returned in Joss Whedon's television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this time played by Sarah Michelle Gellar for all of the show's 144 episodes.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was approached to appear as Buffy in Angel < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s one hundredth episode, but declined, so the character of Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ) was used instead.

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

During the second season of the series Spike comes to Sunnydale hoping to kill a third Slayer, Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), with whom he later forges an uneasy alliance.

STP scored one of its biggest hits since the success of Core and Purple with the single " Sour Girl ", fueled by a popular music video starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.

Giles's primary role in the series is Watcher to Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) in her capacity as vampire Slayer ; he is in the employ of the Watchers ' Council, a British organization that attempts to oversee the actions of the Slayer.

Within the series, Dawn is the little sister of main character Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), a girl chosen by fate to be a vampire Slayer.

Dawn is first introduced as Buffy's ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) younger sister at the end of Buffy season five premiere " Buffy vs. Dracula ", though Buffy had been previously established as an only child.

Drusilla is introduced alongside her lover Spike ( James Marsters ) in the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to serve as new antagonists to the series ' heroine, Vampire Slayer Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ).

Wesley is introduced in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season three ( 1998 – 1999 ) episode " Bad Girls " as the new Watcher of Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) and Faith ( Eliza Dushku ).

On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lawson appeared in a three-episode stint where she portrayed Kendra Young, another Vampire Slayer who is activated as a result of the temporary death of title character, Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ).

:: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Seven Network

Where Van Helsing relied on a stake through the heart, in Vampires 1998, directed by John Carpenter, Jack Crow ( James Woods ) has a heavily-armed squad of vampire hunters, and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1992, directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui ), writer Joss Whedon ( who created TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spin-off Angel ) attached The Slayer, Buffy Summers ( Kristy Swanson in the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series ), to a network of Watchers and mystically endowed her with superhuman powers.

Where Van Helsing relied on a stake through the heart, in Vampires 1998 USA, directed by John Carpenter, Jack Crow ( James Woods ) has a heavily-armed squad of vampire hunters, and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1992 USA, directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui ), writer Joss Whedon ( who created TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spinoff Angel ) attached The Slayer, Buffy Summers ( Kristy Swanson in the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series ), to a network of Watchers and mystically endowed her with superhuman powers.

Xander meets Buffy Summers ( Gellar ), the Slayer, on her first day at Sunnydale High, as well as her Watcher Rupert Giles ( Anthony Head ).

April attacks Slayer Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) out of jealousy for Warren, but dies shortly thereafter.

The premise of the series is that Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) is a Slayer, a teenage girl endowed with superhuman strength and other powers which she uses to kill vampires and other evil beings.

The premise of the series is that Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) is a Slayer, endowed with superhuman strength to fight vampires and evil creatures in the fictional town of Sunnydale.

For this reason, the First usually appears as Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) to the Slayer and her allies, but it also assumes the forms of Warren Mears, Spike, Drusilla and Jonathan Levinson on multiple occasions, among a variety of other forms taken less frequently.

In 2000, Gellar guest appeared as Debbie in the HBO series Sex and the City episode " Escape from New York ".

Gellar has said that she was willing to appear in the episode, but scheduling conflicts and family problems prevented it.

* Royal Renovation: An entire home was redecorated ; the episode featured 3 designers: Nadia Gellar, John Bruce and Chayse Dacoda, celebrity guest Stacy " Fergie " Ferguson and a budget of $ 10, 000.

The character of Buffy Summers was originally intended to appear in the 100th episode to get Angel ' back on track ', but Sarah Michelle Gellar had other obligations.

* Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head and David Boreanaz are the only actors to have appeared in the first and final episodes of the series, with all of them except Boreanaz appearing in the 100th episode as well.

The writing staff had originally hoped Sarah Michelle Gellar would return as Buffy for this episode, but Gellar was busy shooting " The Grudge " at the time.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy, disliked the way her character was treated in this episode, telling Entertainment Weekly, " I had trouble with the one where Buffy had sex with Spike on the balcony while watching their friends.

Starting moments after the previous episode ended, " End of Days " begins as Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) effortlessly pulls the scythe from the stone.

" Writer Jeffrey Bell elaborates, saying Gellar was intended to appear in the penultimate episode of Angel but couldn't make it due to other commitments.

* Sarah Michelle Gellar had requested to cut her hair, so the writers made her haircut a plot point of this episode.

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

* In the episode commentary David Fury notes that a major reason Caroline Lagerfelt was cast as Anne was due to her notable physical resemblance to Sarah Michelle Gellar.

It is a commonly held but mistaken belief that the producers sought Sarah Michelle Gellar for this episode.

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