Film and Career

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		Life and Career

Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar started acting in television commercials from early childhood and went on to appear in films, made-for-television movies, and a number of short-lived television programs. 

She gained recognition on the daytime soap All My Children. In 1997, she began what would be her most recognizable role, portraying the title character on the program Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a spin-off of the 1992 film. 

The television program was played more seriously than the film, taking a cue from the film Scream (1996), and incorporating intelligent, jargon-savvy teen dialogue. 

Gellar's smart performance led the mid-season replacement series to a spot as a network flagship, and her overnight success in the horror genre earned her roles in the slasher pictures I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). 

Still finding continuing success on the small screen, filmgoers found Gellar the perfect choice for prim teen super-sleuth Daphne in the long-awaited live-action adaptation of the enduring television cartoon Scooby Doo. 

After once again taking the wheel of the Mystery Machine to fight a mischievous spector in 2004's Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Gellar traveled to Japan to do battle with some truly frightening entities in the 2004 J-horror remake The Grudge. 

Subsequent vocal work on the animated cult hit Robot Chicken found the former vampire slayer having a bit of behind-the-scenes fun without the stress of appearing before the camera, and a role as an ambitious porn star teetering on the edge of the apocalypse in director Richard Kelly's eagerly-anticipated Donnie Darko follow-up Southland Tales preceded a trip back into terror as a successful businesswoman haunted by a decades-old murder in the 2006 thriller The Return. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide

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