Sarah Michelle Gellar Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is a Golden Globe-nominated, Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is probably best known as Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has since become known as a film actress, having starred in the family film Scooby-Doo (2002), the independent film Harvard Man (2001), the teen drama Cruel Intentions (1999) and the horror films The Return (2006), The Grudge 2 (2006), The Grudge (2004), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997).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 movies at the cinema.Ever since playing the title role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), she has had a reputation as a stickler for on-the-set safety. This showed when Charles Cyphers guest-starred in an episode of BTVS: while filming, he accidentally got hit on the head with a piece of pipe. Although Cyphers was not seriously injured, Gellar snapped to it, and angrily lectured the BTVS crew about said mishap. - Named #26 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list. - Ranked #18 in the Top 100 TV Teen Stars. - Ranked as #64 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005 special supplement (2005).