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Actress. Born Sarah Anne Michelle Gellar on April 14, 1977 in New York City. Gellar attended the Professional Children's School in New York City where high school classmates included actors Tara Reid, Jerry O'Connell and Macaulay Culkin. She was a competitive figure skater for three years and was ranked 3rd in New York Sate's regional competition. In 1983, Gellar made her first TV movie, An Invasion of Privacy. The movie was followed by small TV roles and commercials, as well as theater, including The Widow Claire with Matthew Broderick and Eric Stoltz. Her breakthrough role came in 1992 as Sydney Rutledge in the teen soap opera Swans Crossing. In 1993, Gellar began work on the set of All My Children, earning an Emmy in 1995 in the Younger Leading Actress category.
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