Born in New York on 14 April 1977 and discovered by an agent in a Manhattan restaurant at the age of just 4, Sarah Michelle Gellar has been working pretty much ever since. Child parts, commercials, roles in the popular soaps Swan's Crossing and All My Children all proceeded her big break when in 1995 she landed the lead in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, becoming a teen icon and object of much male lusting in the process. Ironically, her best friend while studying at the Professional Children's School was Melissa Joan Hart, who went on to become Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Pity the two of them couldn't have played opposite each other for that famous lesbian scene in the movie Cruel Intentions.
