Date of Birth
14 April 1977, New York City, New York, USA
Nickname
Sassy
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Mini Biography
Eating in a local
restaurant, she was discovered by an agent when she was 4 years old. Soon after
she was making her first movie, An
Invasion of Privacy (1983) (TV).
Besides a long list of movies, she has also appeared in many TV commercials and on the stage. Her
breakthrough came with TV-series "Swans
Crossing" (1992). During
1997 she became known to the cinema audience when she appeared in two movies at
the cinema I Know What You Did
Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). But she is arguably still most
associated with her title role in the long-running TV series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"(1997).
Trade Mark
Frequently plays
strong and independent women
Her unique nose
Trivia
She studied Tae Kwon
Do for five years, and now she's taking kickboxing, boxing, street fighting and
gymnastics.
One of People
Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. [1998]
Ranked #1 in FHM
magazine's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 1999 and #3 in 2000.
Won 4 online TV
Guide awards.
Her idol is Stockard Channing.
Attended the
Professional Children's School in New York City; graduated with a 4.0 Grade
Average.
Her favorite movie
is Heathers (1988).
Director Raja Gosnell wanted a real life Hollywood couple to
play Fred and Daphne in Scooby-Doo (2002) - Sarah and real life boyfriend Freddie Prinze Jr. were his first choice.
Publicly announced
that she is engaged to Freddie
Prinze Jr.. [14 April 2001]
Roles she turned
down: Juliet in Romeo + Juliet (1996), because of scheduling
conflicts with "All My
Children" (1970). Also due
to "All My Children", she was forced to give up a role in Clueless (1995) and The Crucible (1996), both which she had really
wanted. She also turned down a role in The
Faculty (1998). She turned down
the roles of Sasha in Urban
Legend (1998) Brittany Foster in
the The In Crowd (2000), and Portia de Rossi's role in Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001). And because of scheduling
conflicts with "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer" (1997), she
had to turn down the role of Jenny in Gangs
of New York (2002). She also
turned down the lead role in Stardust (2007).
Roles considered
for: Rogue in X-Men (2000), Julie Barnes in The Mod Squad (1999), She auditioned for Natalie Portman's role in Where the Heart Is (2000) , Was James Toback's first choice to play
Cindy Bandolini in Harvard Man (2001). There was also major fan
gossip of her starring in The
Dark Knight (2008). It was
rumored that she would have been The Joker's minion Harley Quinn, or would have
replaced Katie Holmes as Batman's love interest Rachel
Dawes. She was in talks to star as the Ranger in Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010) and she was also in talks to
star as Alice (2010/I). She was considered to star for the lead role of Wonder Woman (2015) in a proposed film by Warner
Brothers. She was Charles
Randolph's first choice as Alice Maladay in his unsold HBO series titled The Wonderful Maladys (2010) (TV).
Her biological
father (Arthur Gellar, 60) was found dead from unconfirmed circumstances in his
Manhattan apartment. [9 October 2001]
Ranked #16 on the
Maximim magazine's Hot 100 of 2002 list.
Has said that if she
wasn't an actress she'd want to be a journalist or a writer of childrens books.
On October 17 2002,
her wax model, by Madame Tussaud, was unveiled at the "Trail of
Vampires" exhibition.
Voted 9th most
beautiful person in the world in South Africa's People magazine (2002).
#8 on Google.com's
most searched women in 2002.
Presented an award
at the Glamour Awards 2003.
Ranked #45 in Stuff
magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
Ranked #45 on the
Maxim magazine's Hot 100 of 2003 list.
Hosted the MTV Movie
Awards in 2002 along with Jack
Black.
Was rated #5 of the
top 5 sexiest female TV stars of all time.
Ranked #26 on the
Maxim magazine's Hot 100 of 2005 list.
Ranked #18 in the
Top 100 TV Teen Stars.
Ranked #64 in FHM
magazines's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005.
Ranked #94 in FHM
magazine's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006.
Ranked #1 on Maxim
magazine's "Hottest Women of Horror Movies" list.
Ranked #18 on Wizard
magazine's Sexiest Women of TV list (March 2008).
Ranked #5 on Maxim
Magazine's Hot 100 and Woman of the Year in 2008.
Has been long time
friends with actor Seth Green,
and has collaborated with him quite a few times. They can be found together in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) and "Robot Chicken" (2005).
Ranked #32 on FHM
magazine's 100 sexiest women of 2008, which earned her the title of Comback
Queen because she wasn't even on the list last year and she had 4 movie screen
outings.
She is the
ambassador of the charity CARE, which helps fight world poverty. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama gave a $25,000 contribution to the
charity CARE.
Ranked #39 on FHM
magazine's 100 sexiest women of 2009, which earned her the title of Eternal
Flame because she's still in the top flight of the list after so many years of
being # 1 in 1999.
Her favorite colors
are red and pink.
She had a baby
shower for her first child and a few of the guests that came were Michelle Trachtenberg, Kristin Chenoweth, Shannen Doherty and Eva La Rue [1 August 2009].
She and husband Freddie Prinze Jr. gave birth to a girl, Charlotte Grace
Prinze, on September 19, 2009 in Los Angeles.
Ranked #9 on TV
Guide's Sexiest Sci-Fi Women of all Time [2009].
In a top 25
countdown for biggest Emmy nomination snubs on Entertainment Weekly.com, she
was ranked #22 for her starring role on "Buffy
the Vampire Slayer" (1997),
which the show itself was ranked at #3.
Was five months
pregnant with her daughter Charlotte when she completed filming for her unsold
HBO pilot, The Wonderful Maladys (2010) (TV).
Returned to work 18
months after giving birth to her daughter Charlotte in order to begin filming "Ringer" (2011).
