Here's where else you may recognize Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar. Long before her breakthrough as Buffy, one of Gellar's earliest roles was a 1981 advert for Burger King, where she played a young girl who professed her love for Burger King over McDonald's. This advert was controversial for being one of the first to mention a competitor by name, and it led to a lawsuit and the 4-year-old Gellar being banned from eating at McDonald's. Throughout the 1980s she appeared in an assortment of movies and TV shows, including Spenser: For Hire and Chevy Chase's Funny Farm, though she deleted from the latter.
Sarah Michelle Gellar's first movie role was in forgotten 1989 thriller High Stakes, and in 1991 she appeared in miniseries A Woman Named Jackie as the young Jacqueline Onassis. After a stint in soap opera All My Children, she landed the titular role in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Gellar was perfectly cast in the role, being able to handle the action and quips with aplomb, but also infusing Buffy with both strength and vulnerability, with the character forced to balance monster hunting with the general horrors of high school and growing up.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ran for seven seasons, with Sarah Michelle Gellar also making guest appearances in spinoff Cruel Intentions that same year.
Moving into the 2000s, Sarah Michelle Gellar had guest appearances on shows like The Grudge, which grossed almost $40 million in its opening weekend. The movie was an enormous success and Gellar later made a cameo in The Grudge 2, which was received much less warmly.
Sarah Michelle Gellar's 2006 horror effort The Return was a box-office flop, however, as was Richard Kelly's infamously messy Southland Tales. The actress started to get into voice acting around this period, playing April O'Neil in 2007's TMNT, and in later years voiced Seventh Sister on Call Of Duty zombie map Call Of The Dead in 2011.
Veronika Decides To Die from 2009 marked Sarah Michelle Gellar's final live-action movie performance to date. In 2011 she won praise for her dual performance as twin sisters in TV series Masters Of The Universe: Revelation, which is set to debut in 2021. While fans might like to see her return as Buffy someday she's essentially ruled this out, feeling that Buffy being a teenager was key to the concept and it won't work as well if the character was an adult.
