This Day, That Year – April 14

This day in history we feature Sarah Michelle Gellar. An American actress debuted in the film An Invasion of Privacy at the age of 6 years was born on this day in 1977.

Trivia – Sarah Michelle Gellar

A leading role on the teen drama series Swans Crossing was followed by her breakthrough as Kendall Hart on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. Gellar received international recognition for her portrayal of Buffy Summers on the WB/UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which earned her five Teen Choice Awards, a Saturn Award, and a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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Her film credits include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, Cruel Intentions, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, The Grudge, and Southland Tales. On television, Gellar has headlined the CW’s Ringer, CBS’s The Crazy Ones, and Paramount+’s Wolf Pack (since 2023). She has also provided her voice for Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken and Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation. In 2015, Gellar co-founded Foodstirs, an e-commerce startup selling baking kits, and in 2017, she released her own cookbook, Stirring Up Fun with Food. Gellar has been an active advocate for various charities, including breast cancer research, Project Angel Food, Habitat for Humanity and CARE. In 1999, Gellar went to the Dominican Republic to help Habitat for Humanity’s project of building homes for the residents. With Project Angel Food, she delivered healthy meals to people infected with AIDS, and through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, she granted sick children’s wishes of meeting her while working on Buffy. In 2007, Gellar was featured in Vaseline’s “Skin Is Amazing” campaign, in which she agreed to auction nude-posed photos of herself on eBay to raise money for the Coalition of Skin Diseases, an organization which supports clinical research, fosters physician and patient education. In 2011, Gellar joined “The Nestlé Share the Joy of Reading Program”, which promotes reading to young children to encourage them to read during the summer break. The following year, she was presented with the Tom Mankiewicz Leadership Award during the Beastly Ball at the Los Angeles Zoo. The honor recognizes members of the entertainment community who have excelled in establishing meaningful and lasting programs that contribute to the welfare of the world’s natural and civic environment. In 2014 and 2015, Gellar hosted two fundraisers for Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA.

Source – Wikipedia