Sarah Michelle Prinze (née Gellar; born April 14, 1977) is an American actress and producer. After being found by an agent in a local restaurant in New York City, she had a role in the made-for-TV movie An Invasion of Privacy and went on to appear in shows like Spenser: For Hire and Crossbow. Gellar had her first lead part in 1992′s mini-series Swans Crossing and then, she originated the role of Kendall Hart on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, winning the 1995 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.
Gellar came to prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in 1997′s successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and the role of Buffy Summers on the WB/UPN TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (that lasted until 2003), for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She also gained recognition for her performances in movies such as Cruel Intentions (1999) and Scooby-Doo (2002).
After Buffy terminated its run, Gellar continued to find commercial success with the films Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), The Grudge (2004) and its sequel, The Grudge 2 (2006). However, around that time, she started making appearances in a string of lower-profile films, most of them being limited release and direct-to-video motion pictures such as Southland Tales (2007), The Air I Breathe (2008) and Veronika Decides to Die (2009). She had the main role in the television series Ringer, from 2011 to 2012. She has been married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr. since 2002. The couple have two children.
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. 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. Gellar’s bridesmaid was her closest friend of many years, Lindsay Sloane. Prinze and Gellar also played each other’s respective love interests as Fred and Daphne in the 2002 film Scooby-Doo and its sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
In 2007, Gellar legally changed her name to Sarah Michelle Prinze in honor of the couple’s fifth year of marriage. In 2004, while filming The Grudge in Japan, Gellar visited the Japanese swordsmith Shoji Yoshihara (Kuniie III) and bought a katana from him as a birthday present for her husband. Gellar learned that she needed clearance from the Japanese government to remove the sword from the country and, after eventually succeeding, stated that it was “incredibly difficult” to do.
Gellar and Prinze have two children together: daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze (born in September 2009), and son Rocky James Prinze (born in September 2012).
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