- Sarah is ranked #34 in the "100 Hottest Blondes of AIM".
- Sarah was ranked #5 in Maxim's Hot 100 Women 2008.
- Sarah has Scoliosis, which is a curvature of the spine.
- Sarah was ranked #54 in FHM Online's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2007.
- On Sarah and actor Freddie Prinze Jr.'s 5th wedding anniversary , she changed her legal name to Sarah Michelle Prinze. However, her stage name will remain the same.
- Sarah made her first ever appearance in Maxim magazine in the December 2007 issue, where she was voted Woman of the Year by Maxim.
- When she went to school to become an actress, Sarah's best friend was Sabrina: The Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart.
- In an article for TV Guide, she clarified the pronunciation of her last name: the accent is on the second syllable, not the first, though people always mistakenly reverse it.
- Sarah was number #49 on E's 101 favorite stars way back when.
- Sarah was in a total of 146 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel combined. This is the third-highest number of appearances in the Whedonverse.
- She has a brown belt in Tae Kwan Do.
- Awards and Recognitions:
Awards:
*In 2003 Sarah won a Teen Choice Award for Best Actress in a drama series for her work on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
*In 2002 Sarah was ranked #22 out of the top 50 Greatest Teen Idols on VH1.
*In 2002 Sarah won the Teen Choice Award's TV Choice Actress in a Drama for her work on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
*In 2002 Sarah won Nickelodean's Kid's Choice Award for Favorite Female Butt Kicker for her work on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
*In 2002, Sarah won the Movieline Young Hollywood Award for Outstanding Achievement.
*In 2002 Sarah won the Teen Choice Award for Film Choice Actress in a Comedy for her work in the 2002 film Scooby Doo.
*In 2002 Sarah won the Glamour Magazine annual award for Woman of the Year.
*In 1998, Sarah won the Saturn Award for Best Television Actress for her work on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
*In 1998, Sarah won the Blockbuster Video Award for Favorite Actress in a Horror Movie for her work on the 1998 film I Know What You Did Last Summer.
*In 1995 Sarah won a Daytime Emmy for her role of Kendall Hart on All My Children.
Recognitions:
*In 2002 Sarah was voted as the 9th most beautiful person in the world in South Africa People Magazine.
*In 2002 Sarah ranked #45 in Stuff Magazine for their 102 Sexiest Women in the World.
*In 1998 Sarah was voted by People Magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People.
Note:
Sarah has stated that one of the Teen Choice Awards that she won has an incorrect version of her name spelled on it.
- Sarah lent her voice to the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, TMNT. The movie was released in March of 2007.
- Sarah's character in the hit television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is said to have been strongly based upon the character Kitty Pryde from the X-Men series.
- Despite her acclaim for portraying "Buffy Summers," from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah did not lend her voice to said role in either of the two platform video games based on the show...because Gellar had insisted on reading the scripts for both, yet none ever came to her. Ergo, in both games, Buffy was voiced by actress Giselle Loren.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar has green eyes and is most known for her look with dirty blonde hair.
- In 1992, Sarah did a stage production of the play Jake's Women.
- Sarah was in Brian Molko's music video for his song Every You, Every Me.
- Sarah was in the music video for the band Hepburn's song I Quit in 1999.
- In 1999, Sarah spent time in the Dominican Republic, working for Habitat for Humanity.
- Sarah was featured in two 1-800-collect commercial. Both were for Buffy the Vampire Slayer sweepstakes.
- Sarah appeared in a "Got Milk?" advertisement. The statement on the bottom of the advertisement was about her and vampires, with the opening of "I never get bent out of shape over a few vampires." It was basically Sarah as Buffy in the advertisement.
- Sarah had an allergic reaction to the Japanese water while filming The Grudge. They had to put garbage bags over her legs for her shower scene in the movie due to this allergic reaction.
- When on Saturday Night Live, Sarah held up a sign for Alyson Hannigan that said: I Miss you ALY "WILLOW" rules.
- When she was younger, she participated in figure skating, martial arts, and acting in addition to going to school. He mom finally told her she could do two things and one had to be school. She chose acting.
- Sarah has stated that she is afraid of cemeteries.
- Ranked #18 in the Top 100 TV Teen Stars.
- Sarah is being considered for the part Wonder Woman in big screen film version of the 70s tv show.
- Sarah reprised her role as Karen in The Grudge 2, although it was only a cameo appearance.
- Sarah auditioned for the role of Julie in the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer, before being cast as Helen. The role of Julie eventually went to Jennifer Love Hewitt.
- Sarah was considered for the role of Rogue for X-Men.
- Sarah has appeared with Ryan Phillippe on both "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Cruel Intentions".
- She had no idea what 'sitch meant when she began to film Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Sarah auditioned for the role of Buffy five times before they cast her.
- Sarah originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charisma Carpenter, who played the role of Cordelia, auditioned for the role of Buffy.
- She broke a bone in her hand while filming the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Homecoming".
- Sarah likes to ice skate.
- Her favorite hobbies are walking her dogs, playing board games, and reading.
- Her favorite designer is Juicy.
- Sarah's favorite books are The Princess Bride and Gone with the Wind.
- She loves to vacation in Hawaii.
- Her favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.
- Her favorite season is Summer.
- Sarah has stated that one of her favorite movies is The Princess Bride.
- When Sarah was trying to get a role on Scream 2, she told the director, Wes Craven, that she did stunts on Buffy the Vampire Slayer often.
- Sarah hosted the MTV Movie Awards in 2002 along with Jack Black.
- Sarah "leaped before she looked" with her role in Scream 2, as she accepted the part before even reading the film's screenplay. Gellar was apalled because her character got killed off so easily and quickly; she now has a very strict policy of always viewing the script for a project, prior to signing on with it.
- During the 2001 Teen Choice Awards (August 20, 2001), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) co-star Michelle Trachtenberg presented her with the Extraordinary Achievement Award for being a good role model and for her charity work (especially for Habitat for Humanity).
- Her high school classmates include: Tara Reid, Jerry O'Connell, and Macaulay Culkin.
- Sarah met future husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., on the set of the 1997 teen slasher flick, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
- Sarah has been slammed by her former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Alyson Hannigan for failing to tell cast members she was quitting the show. Alyson had to learn about not having a job by reading it in a magazine.
- Sarah turned down the oppotunity to reprise her character of Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in season 5 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's spin-off series Angel. She was reportedly asked to come back for a couple of episodes.
- In 1999, she signed a contract with Maybelline to become the company's first celebrity spokeswoman since Lynda Carter in the late 1970s.
- On October 09, 2001, Sarah's estranged father died. He was 60-years old.
- Her nickname is Sassy.
- Guests at Sarah and Freddie Prinze Jr.'s wedding included actors Dulé Hill, Shannen Doherty, Eva LaRue and close friend and bridesmaid to Sarah, Lindsay Sloane.
- Her favourite food is sushi.
- Sarah has said that if she wasn't an actress she'd want to be a journalist or a writer of children's books.
- Sarah was raised by her mother, Rosellen.
- On October 17 2002, her wax model, by Madame Tussaud, was unveiled at the "Trail of Vampires" exhibition.
- Sarah is an only child.
- Sarah dated professional tennis player Jan-Michael Gambill.
- Sarah's favorite movie is Heathers.
- Her height is 5' 3" (1m60)
- Sarah has stated that she is a fan of Dr. Seuss books.
- She studied Tae Kwon Do for five years, and now she's taking kickboxing, boxing, street fighting and gymnastics.
- Sarah presented an award at the Glamour Awards 2003.
- Sarah has stated that her favorite singer is Mariah Carey.
- Sarah is a natural brunette. She dyed her hair blonde for her role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Sarah is good friends with Britney Spears.
- Sarah's wedding gown was designed by Vera Wang.
- Sarah is an avid fan of the New York Yankees and the New York Knicks.
- Her favorite country is Japan.
- Sarah has stated that her idol is Stockard Channing.
- Sarah has tattoos which are a Celtic symbol on her left hip, Chinese symbol for integrity on her lower back and a heart with a dagger hanging over it tattooed on the inside of her right ankle.
- Sarah's pets are a Maltese terrier named Thor and an Akita named Tyson.
- Gellar's break came in 1992 with a lead role in the teen soap opera Swans Crossing.
- Sarah made an estimated total of $10,800,000 doing the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar was rumored to have dated David Boreanaz. She denied there was a relationship but she also denied rumors about her relationship with her husband Freddie Prinze Jr..
- Sarah was #8 on Google.com's most searched women in 2002.
- One of Sarah's bridesmaids was actress Lindsay Sloane.
- In the soap opera series All My Children, she portrayed Kendall Hart from 1993-1995. In 2002, the role was resumed but it is now played by actress Alicia Minshew.
- Sarah was discovered by an agent while eating in a restaurant at the age of four.
- Sarah is friends with actress Shannen Doherty.
- Sarah married Freddie Prinze Jr. in Mexico on September 01, 2002.
- Sarah is an Aries. Coincidentally, so are her Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-stars Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, and Emma Caulfield.
- Sarah was in the Stone Temple Pilots music video "Sour Girl."
- Although Sarah's last name is Jewish, she claims that she is not associated with any particular religion. She says that she's spiritual but doesn't really believe in any of the conventional religions.
- Sarah didn't approve of the first Buffy the Vampire Slayer action figure of her character Buffy, so she asked Moore to make another more accurate one. In the next line of figures, Moore used lasers to map out Sarah's face correctly.
- Sarah: I'll answer to just about anything. Sometimes people mistake me for Sarah Jessica Parker, and I answer to that, too.
- (From her early Buffy days, reading Joss Whedon's dialogue)
Sarah: Let me tell you how un-Buffy I am. For the first episode, I come in and yell, "What's the sitch?" I did not know what "sitch" meant. I still have to ask Joss, "What does this mean?" because I don't speak the lingo. I think he makes it up half the time.
- (On auditioning for the role of Buffy)
Sarah: I probably had eleven auditions and four tests. It was the most awful experience of my life, but I was so driven. I had read the script and heard about Joss Whedon and how wonderful he was.
- Sarah: I love a big bowl of hot and sour soup. There's nothing I don't eat, except maybe rabbit.
- Sarah: Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
- Sarah: It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all, give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to 125 pounds.
- Sarah: Japanese horror is different. It messes with your head.
- Sarah: I think the best piece of advice I've ever gotten is to trust myself and go for my dreams. I got that from my mom.
- Sarah: My biggest complaint about high school is when it's Send-the-roses day, somebody's always left out. I always got roses, but I would give them to someone who hadn't gotten any.
- (on the days off from filming “The Grudge“ in Japan)
Sarah: I did a lot of shopping. Actually, I had my birthday at Tokyo Disneyland. It was amazing - odd and surreal. Then a bunch of my friends and I rented out a tattoo parlour and we all got tattoos.
- (on how her life was when “Buffy” ended)
Sarah: I took a break for about six months because you get to that place where you have to figure out what do you do when you don’t work all the time. The first couple of weeks I didn’t really know what to do with my time.
- Sarah: I'll kiss anything. Guys, girls, dogs.
- Sarah: If a tidal wave hits LA just grab a fake boob for safety.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar: Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
- Sarah: I've won an Emmy. Okay, it's a Daytime Emmy, but it's still an Emmy. It doesn't mean nearly as much to me as my Nickelodeon Kids' Choise Awards for Favorite Female Butt Kicker.
- Sarah: Horror films are where women can shine and have a chance to lead. They always save the day in these films.
- Sarah: I am militant about drugs. You want to do 'em, you're out of my life.
- Sarah: I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
- Sarah: Those are such difficult years, and I would never want to be a teenager again for all the money in the world.
- Sarah: Some actresses can be the girlfriend or the wife, but I think I would get so bored.
- Sarah: Being on Buffy really spoiled me because it's so rare to have a female protagonist like that.
- Sarah: I'm not really a fearful person. I don't want to live my life in fear. I look forward to challenges.
- Sarah: I'm a fan of Japanese cinema in general.
- Sarah: Buffy, in this incarnation, is over.
- Sarah: One of the greatest gifts my job has given me is that my mother, who gave up her entire life for me, doesn't have to work any more. I'm now in a position to repay her for her devotion.
